No Street Names Despite Modern Housing in Bukit Selambau

Another problem with SPR data is the many voters registered without street names in modern housing areas, despite having a house number. More than 2/3 of voters in Taman Bandar Baru (the "new town garden"), eg, are registered with house number, but without street address.

While the previous blog entry highlighted a large number of voters registered without house number, this article questions those registered even with house numbers but without the street name. Such vague registration opens the ground for possible electoral frauds and phantom voters.

Why should SPR repeat the address information of Taman Peruda/Taman Peruda (DM/lokaliti), or Taman Bandar Baru/Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang, but miss out the street name (such as Lorong 1 or Jalan 1)?

This issue is similar to the "big houses" issue discussed in

• Bukit Gantang - 70 Houses with 15 or More Voters
• 90 Voters in a Big House in KT
• 83 Voters in the Same House - More SPR Negligence?

Table A shows that in Bukit Selambau (N25 under P014) in Kedah:

• 94 addresses of "big houses" are each registered with 15 or more voters ,
• these are addresses with specific house number,
• an example is that 85 voters live in 014/25/04/007 (Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Taman Bandar Baru/Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang ), registered WITH the house number 7
  

• What's going on? Why such a "big house?"
  
• Why does SPR repeat the information "Taman Bandar Baru" twice but not give information on what "Jalan" or "Lorong"?
• Table B will group them into mainly 2 large clusters of such voters.
  

Table A: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
List of NON-BLANK large unique addresses with 15 or more voters, WITH a house number (NoRumah)

Voter count	parl/DUN/DM/lokaliti	N25 Bukit Selambau NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah Cleaned
85	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	7
84	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	19
83	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	11
82	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	3
74	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	9
73	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	6
73	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	12
72	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	14
71	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	2
71	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	16
70	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	1
69	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	29
66	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	4
65	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	20
62	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	17
58	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	18
58	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	24
57	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	15
57	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	31
56	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	8
56	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	11A
55	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	5
54	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	10
53	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	25
49	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	27
48	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	22
46	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	37
45	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	23
45	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	30
44	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	33
42	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	35
42	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	43
40	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	28
39	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	21
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	26
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	40
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	42
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	49
37	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	7
36	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	32
35	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	34
35	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	3
34	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	39
34	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	51
32	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	45
30	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	11
30	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	14
29	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	36
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	2
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	10
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	17
28	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	41
28	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	48
28	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	1
28	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	16
27	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	5
26	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	15
26	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	21
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	4
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	8
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	13
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	38
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	51
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	52
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	62
24	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	6
24	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	22
23	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	50
23	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	9
23	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	55
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	44
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	54
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	61
22	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	12
21	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	64
21	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	26
21	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	28
20	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	55
20	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	59
20	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	19
19	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	47
19	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	47
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	27
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	33
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	45
17	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	60
17	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	68
17	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	20
17	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	49
16	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	56
16	014/25/17/004	Pekan Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	1
15	014/25/09/003	Air Menideh	Jalan Nuri	4
15	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	24
15	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	31

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Table B contains the same data as Table A, but re-grouped by Kodlokaliti, so that similar addresses are clustered together.


Table B shows that:

• There are 2 clusters of houses where SPR recorded specific "house numbers" but failed to record or publish the "street name and numbers," such as "Jalan 1" or "Lorong 1".

Cluster 1: Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang

• There are 60 "big houses" in 014/25/04/007 (or Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Taman Bandar Baru/Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang) where ther are 15 or more voters "living in the same big houses,"
• It looks like street names, such as "Jalan 1" or "Lorong 1" are missing, lumping voters into big house numbers,

• This makes it difficult to verify the existence of these voters, and easy to commit election fraud with phantom voters.
  
• The voters in these 60 houses total 2,729 persons, and represents 65% of the 4,179 voters within this DM (014/25/04 or Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Taman Bandar Baru)
  
• There must be more cases below 15 voters in the same addresses, and the percentage of those who appear to live in "big houses" must be higher than 65%.
• These are not old "kampong" or village addresses, or apartments,
• They appear to be modern housing areas, judging from the name (Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang) and map of the neighbourhood on WikiMapia.org (see right).
• When we Google for "kedah 'taman bandar baru' lorong or jalan" we readily found specific examples of Lorong or Jalan names and numbers (eg, Lorong Jati) for this housing estate.

Our questions:

• Had SPR been negligent and not properly registering and publishing these voter's "Lorong/Jalan" names and numbers?
• Doesn't this make it difficult for election observers, even SPR itself, to verify the existence of these voters?
• Doesn't this make it easy for someone to commit election fraud and plant phantom voters?
  
• If SPR had strictly followed a voters' ICs (MyKad) because the ICs contain incomplete address, how can the National Registration Department be so careless about the full address?

Cluster 2: Taman Peruda

• Another cluster is 014/25/11/002 or Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Taman Peruda/Taman Peruda
• There are 33 houses here that appear to house 15 or more voters each.
• When we Google for "kedah 'taman peruda' lorong or jalan" we readily found specific examples of Lorong or Jalan names and numbers (eg, Lorong 2) for this housing estate.

Table B: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
List of NON-BLANK large unique addresses with 15 or more voters, WITH a house number (NoRumah)
GROUPED BY KODLOKALITI AND HOUSE NUMBER

Voter count	parl/DUN/DM/lokaliti	N25 Bukit Selambau NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah Cleaned
70	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	1
71	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	2
82	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	3
66	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	4
55	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	5
73	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	6
85	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	7
56	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	8
74	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	9
54	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	10
83	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	11
73	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	12
72	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	14
57	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	15
71	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	16
62	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	17
58	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	18
84	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	19
65	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	20
39	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	21
48	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	22
45	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	23
58	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	24
53	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	25
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	26
49	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	27
40	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	28
69	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	29
45	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	30
57	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	31
36	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	32
44	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	33
35	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	34
42	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	35
29	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	36
46	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	37
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	38
34	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	39
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	40
28	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	41
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	42
42	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	43
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	44
32	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	45
19	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	47
28	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	48
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	49
23	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	50
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	51
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	52
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	54
20	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	55
16	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	56
20	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	59
17	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	60
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	61
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	62
21	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	64
17	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	68
56	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	11A
15	014/25/09/003	Air Menideh	Jalan Nuri	4
28	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	1
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	2
35	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	3
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	4
27	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	5
24	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	6
37	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	7
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	8
23	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	9
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	10
30	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	11
22	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	12
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	13
30	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	14
26	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	15
28	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	16
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	17
20	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	19
17	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	20
26	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	21
24	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	22
15	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	24
21	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	26
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	27
21	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	28
15	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	31
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	33
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	45
19	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	47
17	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	49
34	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	51
23	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	55
16	014/25/17/004	Pekan Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	1

What can be done?

Use our phone camera to take photo of ICs with specific street name in these 2 clusters, to prove that SPR has not registered voters properly, or not publishing the information for voter verification.

Go here for more details about this suggestion.

In the above link, we suggest how field observers can verify whether these voters really do not have house numbers in the IC/MyKad. If so, then the pressure should be on NRIC to include these crucial information in ICs.