KUALA LUMPUR (May 6, 2013): Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli was among the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) candidates who found himself up against 'phantom voters' who were deployed to vote in an alleged attempt to shore up support for Barisan Nasional.
Rafizi had polled 48,183 against BN's Gary Lim Chin Yee (21,454) and Allan Tan (2,415) votes.
Barely 30 minutes after lodging a police report over suspected phantom voters in Chempaka at around noon yesterday, Rafizi rushed off to another polling centre in Teratai where his supporters had apprehended a man whom they claimed to be a foreigner who had cast his vote.
Chempaka and Teratai are two state seats under the Pandan parliamentary constituency - won by PAS' Iskandar Abdul Samad and DAP's Tiew Way Keng.
"I received a call from (DAP Teratai candidate) Tiew Way Keng at 1.09pm. A DAP election worker had seen him acting suspiciously and asked him to sing Negaraku, but he could not," he said.
"My suspicion is that he sounds like an Indonesian from Sabah," Rafizi told reporters here.
The man however possessed a MyKad with the name 'Mazlan bin Zulkiflee' and a registered address in Taman Mawar here.
Mazlan, when questioned by Rafizi, insisted that he is a genuine Sabahan who had changed his IC in 1995 to a local address belonging to his "cousin's parent-in-law".
Mazlan could not however recall the address printed on his IC or gave a clear reason for using it, as he had earlier claimed to only have stayed at the house for three days before being "kicked out".
Rafizi later noted that while Mazlan claimed to have changed his IC in 1995, he has in his possession a MyKad which at that time, has not been introduced.
Rafizi said he was also told that Mazlan went to the DAP booth outside the polling station, after voting, and tried to claim RM700, purportedly to pay for his flight back to Sabah.
Asked about why he had tried to claim money, Mazlan merely said: "I am just trying (to ask). See if I can get 'duit tukar' (money)".
Mazlan also had with him a one-way ticket from Kota Kinabalu to Kuala Lumpur dated May 4 which he furnished at the DAP booth to support his claim for money.
Similar incidents of PR party workers apprehending 'dubious voters' and asking them to sing the national anthem were also reported at several other constituencies.
Meanwhile, Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at a press conference last night said PKR had lost seats due to alleged fraudulent acts and refuse to concede defeat unless the EC provides a "satisfactory" explanation on the alleged fraudulent acts.
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