94.2% Manek Urai voters without house number

94.2% of voters in Manek Urai (P031N41) are registered with only a general village or street (locality) address, without any specific house numbers. This hampers voter verification and hides opportunity to plant phantom voters.

Manek Urai has one of the highest rates of voters registered without house numbers in the country at 94.2%, comparable to Sabah and many constituencies in Sarawak. In the GE12 electoral roll (see our May 2008 blog entry),

• about 1/3 of all voters nationwide are registered without house number (NoRumah in SPR database),
  
• about 73% of voters in Kelantan hasno house number
  

Table A shows that:

• The DMs (voting districts) of Chuchoh Puteri and Sungai Sok have the highest percentage of voters without house number (NoRumah) of, respectively 98.0% and 96.8%.
• But the DMs of Sungai Perial and Manek Urai Lama have the largest absolute number of voters without house numbers of, respectively, 1,867 and 1,784, because they are larger districts.
• Overall, 94.2% or 11,554 out of 12,268 non-postal voters are registered without house number.
  

Table A: N41 Manek Urai (P031 Kuala Krai) By-Election Roll of 20090604
Percentage of unique addresses (Kodlokaliti+NoRumah) where NoRumah is blank - Non-Postal Voters

Parl/DUN/DM	NamaDUN	NamaDM	Blank_NoRumah	Total_Voters	% with Blank House Number
031/41/06	Manek Urai	Chuchoh Puteri	1,486	1,517	98.0%
031/41/05	Manek Urai	Sungai Sok	949	980	96.8%
031/41/01	Manek Urai	Temalir	942	983	95.8%
031/41/07	Manek Urai	Lata Rek	1,041	1,094	95.2%
031/41/08	Manek Urai	Manjor	997	1,049	95.0%
031/41/03	Manek Urai	Manek Urai Lama	1,784	1,890	94.4%
031/41/09	Manek Urai	Laloh	1,520	1,643	92.5%
031/41/02	Manek Urai	Sungai Perial	1,867	2,019	92.5%
031/41/04	Manek Urai	Manek Urai Baru	968	1,093	88.6%
Non-Postal voters			11,554	12,268	94.2%
Postal voters				25
Total voters				12,293

Table B shows that,:

• Because most voters in Manek Urai (94.2%) are not registered by SPR to have house number, their "locality" (represented only by Kodlokaliti, with blank NoRumah) effectively become their full but vague address.
  
• These are vague but "unique address" (such as"kampong" address)
• By "unique address," we mean Kodlokaliti+Norumah (the latter mostly blank).
  
• Table B is a long list that includes both blank (majority) and non-blank (minority near the bottom) house numbers, down to 3 voters who share the same unique address.
  
• The electoral-roll problem of "many voters without NoRumah" and "large unique address or big virtual houses" become the same issue.
• This list helps us to see the big picture of vague addresses registration by SPR.
  

Many voters look like they share "big, virtual, houses," ie, Unique Addresses without house number (Kodlokaliti+ blank NoRumah). For example,

• There is an address with 1,179 voters and another with 1,032 voters lumped together,
• 1,179 voters appear to live in a "big virtual house" at 031/41/09/001 or Kuala Krai/ Manek Urai / Laloh / Kg Laloh. No further house number details are available for these 1,179 voters.
  
• At the bottom end of this list, notice that where specific house numbers are available, there are 5 or fewer voters living in the same unique addresses.

• We created the "NoRumahCleaned" column to standardize and eliminate SPR's inconsistent addresses formats, to clean up cases such as the 5 voters at "30A", at 031/41/07/001 Kuala Krai/ Manek Urai/ Lata Rek/Lata Rek. They appeared in SPR's database as different house number:
  
• "30 A" (1 voter),
• "30-A" (2 voters), and
  
• "NO 30 A" (2 voters)
  

For field researchers,

• it will be difficult to go through such a large number of voters .
• Such vague addressing will open up great opportunities to implant phantom voters.
  
• We are publicizing this pattern to build up evidence that SPR is not properly registering voter details.
  

Table B: N41 Manek Urai (P031 Kuala Krai) By-Election Roll of 20090604
"Virtual Big Houses" or Unique Addresses (Kodlokaliti+NoRumah) and Voter Counts - Non-Postal Voters
Blank and Non-Blank House Numbers (NoRumah)

Kodlokaliti	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah	NoRumahCleaned	Voter Count
0314109001	Laloh	Kg Laloh			1,179
0314106001	Chuchoh Puteri	Kg Chuchoh Putri			1,032
0314102001	Sungai Perial	Kg Sg Perial			898
0314103001	Manek Urai Lama	Manek Urai Timor			715
0314101002	Temalir	Temalir Lkt			701
0314107001	Lata Rek	Lata Rek			635
0314104001	Manek Urai Baru	Kg Manek Urai Baru			548
0314103002	Manek Urai Lama	Manek Urai Barat			510
0314106002	Chuchoh Puteri	Kg Chuchoh Putri B			454
0314105002	Sungai Sok	R.K.T. Sg. Sok			417
0314108002	Manjor	Kampong Manjor			398
0314105001	Sungai Sok	Kg Sg Sok Dan Lata Pauh			343
0314108001	Manjor	Kampong Karangan			343
0314102004	Sungai Perial	R K T Perial			336
0314103003	Manek Urai Lama	Manek Urai Hulu			282
0314102005	Sungai Perial	Ladang Lepan Kabu			262
0314108003	Manjor	Kampong Budi			244
0314109002	Laloh	Kg. Lela Jasa			241
0314101001	Temalir	Kg Temalir			241
0314104005	Manek Urai Baru	Kg Gajah			178
0314105004	Sungai Sok	Slow Machang			168
0314102002	Sungai Perial	Kg. Lepan Jenut			162
0314107003	Lata Rek	Kg Chatel			154
0314102003	Sungai Perial	Takdir Sg Perial			139
0314104003	Manek Urai Baru	Kg. Ragu			126
0314107002	Lata Rek	Kg Bukit Budu			121
0314103004	Manek Urai Lama	Kg Kuala Hidong East			120
0314103006	Manek Urai Lama	Kg Sg Masek			102
0314107004	Lata Rek	Kg Jelekis			74
0314104004	Manek Urai Baru	Kg. Leber Kala			66
0314104002	Manek Urai Baru	Ladang Tg. Batu			50
0314102006	Sungai Perial	Kuala Temiang			40
0314103008	Manek Urai Lama	Manek Urai Lama			39
0314109003	Laloh	Kg. Sg. Kamal			35
0314107006	Lata Rek	Kg Tok Uban			33
0314109005	Laloh	Kg. Jeram Panjang			19
0314102007	Sungai Perial	Kg. Kongsi Baru			18
0314105003	Sungai Sok	Kg. Bukit Sabah			18
0314109004	Laloh	Kg. Lebor			17
0314109007	Laloh	Rpt Kesedar Sg Rek			13
0314107005	Lata Rek	Kg Kubang Kerian			12
0314108004	Manjor	Kg Chabang Empat			12
0314103005	Manek Urai Lama	Rumah Kerajaan			11
0314107007	Lata Rek	Kg Lata Pauh			11
0314109006	Laloh	Sykt. Bonaza Sg. Pek			9
0314102008	Sungai Perial	Kg. Pasir Layang			7
0314102009	Sungai Perial	Kg Peria Baru			5
0314107001	Lata Rek	Lata Rek	30-A	30A	5
0314109001	Laloh	Kg Laloh	5	5	4
0314102001	Sungai Perial	Kg Sg Perial	279	279	4
0314102001	Sungai Perial	Kg Sg Perial	14B	14B	4
0314103007	Manek Urai Lama	Pinggir Kajang			4
0314109008	Laloh	Kg Bechah Pulai			4
0314104001	Manek Urai Baru	Kg Manek Urai Baru	LOT 68	LOT68	4
0314103001	Manek Urai Lama	Manek Urai Timor	67	67	4
0314102007	Sungai Perial	Kg. Kongsi Baru	NO 39	39	4
0314109001	Laloh	Kg Laloh	LOT 4109	LOT4109	3
0314109001	Laloh	Kg Laloh	NO 14	14	3
0314109009	Laloh	Kg Sg Rek			3
0314102001	Sungai Perial	Kg Sg Perial	LOT 8	LOT8	3
0314102005	Sungai Perial	Ladang Lepan Kabu	62	62	3
0314109001	Laloh	Kg Laloh	111	111	3
0314104001	Manek Urai Baru	Kg Manek Urai Baru	LOT 287	LOT287	3
0314109001	Laloh	Kg Laloh	115	115	3
0314102005	Sungai Perial	Ladang Lepan Kabu	28	28	3
0314107001	Lata Rek	Lata Rek	16	16	3
0314104001	Manek Urai Baru	Kg Manek Urai Baru	LOT 12	LOT12	3
0314102001	Sungai Perial	Kg Sg Perial	NO 372	372	3
0314104001	Manek Urai Baru	Kg Manek Urai Baru	246	246	3
0314102005	Sungai Perial	Ladang Lepan Kabu	NO 2	2	3
0314105001	Sungai Sok	Kg Sg Sok Dan Lata Pauh	46	46	3
0314103001	Manek Urai Lama	Manek Urai Timor	NO 61	61	3
0314102005	Sungai Perial	Ladang Lepan Kabu	11	11	3
0314109001	Laloh	Kg Laloh	LOT 25	LOT25	3
0314109001	Laloh	Kg Laloh	26	26	3
0314102004	Sungai Perial	R K T Perial	107	107	3
0314104001	Manek Urai Baru	Kg Manek Urai Baru	263	263	3
0314104001	Manek Urai Baru	Kg Manek Urai Baru	LOT 217	LOT217	3
0314102005	Sungai Perial	Ladang Lepan Kabu	3	3	3