Former Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Datuk Seri Anwar has lost her bid to get the Election Commission (EC) to strike out dubious voters names from the electoral roll of the constituency.
Her application was dismissed by Justice Datuk Seri Zakaria Sam in chambers today.
Federal counsel Amarjeet Singh told reporters later the judge ruled that the court has no jurisdiction over electoral rolls by virtue of section 9A of the Election Act 1958.
(Section 9A of the EC states that the certified or re-certified electoral roll is final, binding and not to be questioned or appealed against or reviewed, quashed or set aside by any court).
Nurul Izzah, 33, and Kadir Sultan Abd Majid, 63, a registered voter in Lembah Pantai constituency, filed the application for judicial review on March 22 against the chief registrar, the EC, director-general of National Registration Department and government of Malaysia.
In the application, Nurul Izzah and Kadir sought an order declaring as wrong and illegal the failure, refusal and neglect of the chief registrar of the EC to cancel names from the principal electoral roll of Lembah Pantai for the year 2011 and supplementary electoral roll of Lembah Pantai for the second quarter of 2012.
They sought a certiorari order and a mandamus order to compel the respondents to cancel the names on the two electoral rolls and to hold an inquiry and update the addresses of the voters.
In the application, Nurul Izzah stated that her employees had, on checking the electoral rolls, found names of people who had died, or who no longer resided in the constituency, and names of people registered under incomplete or non-existent addresses.
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