Vague addresses - 20% without house numbers in Bukit Selambau

20% voters in Bukit Selambau are registered WITHOUT house numbers. The largest such address with blank house numbers has 339 voters. One DM has 90% voters WITHOUT house number.

SPR voter roll data are highly unspecific, making it difficult to verify voter existence, which leaves an opening for electoral frauds and the introduction of phantom voters:

1. This article will show that many voters are registered by SPR without recording their specific address house numbers (the situation even worse in Batang Air, to be discussed in a later article),
   
2. The next blog will show that, even when house numbers are registered, a large number of voters are registered without their specific street names (eg, Jalan 11) even in a modern housing estates, with the SPR recording only the name of the general housing area (eg, Taman Mewah).
   

This issue is similar to the "blank house number" issue discussed in:

• Bukit Gantang - 26% Without House Number
• 8,388 or 10% of KT Voters Have No NoRumah
• PP: 1,020 Voters Without House Number Highlights SPR Voter Registration Shortcomings

Table A shows that

• 20.4% of 35,140 voters, or 7,163, in Bukit Selambau (N25 of Kedah, under P014 Merbok) are registered on SPR voters roll without house number (NoRumah).

Table A: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
Percentage of voters with blank NoRumah by DUN, excluding postal voters

parl/DUN/DM	NamaDUN	Count of voters without house number	Count of voters	Percent
014/25/15	Bukit Selambau	7,163	35,125	20.4%
Postal voters			15
All voters			35,140

Table B shows that, in Bukit Selambau,

• 12 localities or addresses have over 200 voters registered without house number (blank NoRumah data field).
  
• 6 of them have over 300 voters.
  
• An example is the 339 voters live in 014/25/03/003 but without house number, ie, Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Bukit Lembu/Ladang Sungai Getah/[blank house number]
• We have "cleaned up" the house number (NoRumah) data field, because SPR has been inconsistent with house number format, such as using "" blanks, "Null", "Nil", "Tiada", or "-" to represent the same thing.

Table B: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
List of voters in large unique addresses with BLANK HOUSE NUMBER (NoRumah), with 200 or more voters in one unique address without NoRumah

Voter count	parl/DUN /DM /lokaliti	N25 Bukit Selambau NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah Cleaned
339	014/25/03/003	Bukit Lembu	Ladang Sungai Getah
317	014/25/03/004	Bukit Lembu	Ladang Sungkap Para
315	014/25/01/002	Kuala Sin	Kampong Perak
312	014/25/03/001	Bukit Lembu	Ladang Bukit Lembu Kongsi Enam
307	014/25/01/001	Kuala Sin	Kg Kuala Sin
302	014/25/02/003	Kampung Sungkap	Kampong Sungkap
247	014/25/15/002	Petani Para	Ldg Patani Para Sg Patani
230	014/25/04/002	Taman Bandar Baru	Ladang Sg Tok Pawang Div 2
218	014/25/18/001	Kampung Pokok Machang	Kg Pokok Machang
216	014/25/16/002	Bukit Rusa	Selambau Div14 U P Est Sg Patani
215	014/25/20/002	Titi Panjang	Kg Pantai Chichar
212	014/25/16/001	Bukit Rusa	Bukit Rusa Estate

Table C shows that, in N25 Bukit Selambau of Kedah (under P014 Merbok):

• 5 out of 22 DMs (Daerah Mengundi, voting district) have more than 80% of voters registered WITHOUT house numbers (NoRumah),
• The highest rate is at 014/25/15 or Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Petani Para, with over 90% blank house numbers.
  
• 8/22 DMs have over half of voters registered without house numbers.

• In the next blog entry, we will see that even those DMs with low rate of blank house number are problematic!
• We will see that, for example, Taman Bandar Baru (014/25/04, more than 1/2) and Taman Peruda (014/25/11, more than 1/3 voters) contain a large number of voters registered with house number, but without specific street names (eg Jalan 1)!
  

• So SPR has published voter roll that despite looking good in table C below, is making voters difficult to trace and verify (see next blog entry).
  

Table C: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
Percentage of voters with blank NoRumah by DM
Arranged by PERCENTAGES

parl/DUN /DM	NamaDUN	N25 Bukit Selambau NamaDM	Count of voters without house number	Count of voters	Percent
014/25/15	Bukit Selambau	Petani Para	324	359	90.3%
014/25/18	Bukit Selambau	Kampung Pokok Machang	599	696	86.1%
014/25/19	Bukit Selambau	Batu Belachan	657	785	83.7%
014/25/02	Bukit Selambau	Kampung Sungkap	496	600	82.7%
014/25/03	Bukit Selambau	Bukit Lembu	993	1,223	81.2%
014/25/01	Bukit Selambau	Kuala Sin	646	831	77.7%
014/25/20	Bukit Selambau	Titi Panjang	796	1,058	75.2%
014/25/16	Bukit Selambau	Bukit Rusa	451	667	67.6%
014/25/17	Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	625	1,986	31.5%
014/25/14	Bukit Selambau	United Petani	196	973	20.1%
014/25/05	Bukit Selambau	Sungai Lalang	355	1,986	17.9%
014/25/07	Bukit Selambau	Bandar Laguna Merbok	117	971	12.0%
014/25/10	Bukit Selambau	Jalan Badlishah	94	796	11.8%
014/25/06	Bukit Selambau	Taman Desa Aman	206	2,514	8.2%
014/25/04	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	284	4,179	6.8%
014/25/09	Bukit Selambau	Air Menideh	90	1,695	5.3%
014/25/21	Bukit Selambau	Ambangan Height	28	647	4.3%
014/25/11	Bukit Selambau	Taman Peruda	54	1,936	2.8%
014/25/08	Bukit Selambau	Tasek Apong	27	1,363	2.0%
014/25/13	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	87	5,122	1.7%
014/25/12	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Utara	20	2,244	0.9%
014/25/22	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Selatan	18	2,494	0.7%
Total	Excluding postal		7,163	35,125	20.4%