Sibu by-election roll: 1507 voters in the same locality

We found 1507 voters "living at the same address" in Sibu, because SPR apparently drops detailed address information from the electoral roll. This hampers election monitoring, confirms that the SPR does not register voters by their exact IC addresses, thereby possibly introducing another layer of human mistakes in its database.

Table A shows that in Sibu (P212)'s by-Election Roll Dated 20100409:

• Many voters live in large "virtual" addresses (NamaLokaliti+NoRumah cleaned) with 15+ voters.
• The numbers go as high as 1507 per virtual address, because of the lack of NoRumah, that causes voters to be lumped into large "localities" (the closest information relating to street address).
• We found 12 localities where 323 or more voters are without exact house addresses.

• Although Sarawak contains many long house addresses which contain no street address numbers, there should be door numbers to the long houses.
• Further, another of our analysis later will show that SPR has most likely not adhered to IC address in its allocation and reallocation (moving) of voters across "voting localities"

Table A: Up to 1,507 voters live in the same "virtual big houses" - or NoRumah+NamaLokaliti

Note: DUN 47 is Bawang Assan; 48 is Pelawan; DUN 49 is Nangka

Voter count	Kodlokaliti	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah Cleaned
1507	212/48/03/001	Sungai Merah	Sg Merah Rd	[blank]
961	212/47/10/003	Engkilo	Sg Bidut(South)	[blank]
697	212/47/07/003	Dassan	Sadit	[blank]
628	212/49/03/004	Teku	Sg Teku	[blank]
487	212/47/10/002	Engkilo	Engkilo(2)	[blank]
422	212/48/11/001	Oya Lane	Oya Road	[blank]
396	212/47/05/001	Ma`Aw	Ma'Aw Btg Rejang	[blank]
379	212/49/03/002	Teku	Sg Bidut(North)	[blank]
346	212/47/07/002	Dassan	Engkilo(1)	[blank]
345	212/47/05/002	Ma`Aw	Sg Pradom(1)Btg Rejang	[blank]
337	212/48/01/001	Rajang Park	Rajang Park	[blank]
323	212/48/05/001	Bahagia Jaya	Teku Rd	[blank]

Table B shows that:

• 12 out of 30 voting districts (Daerah Mengundi, DM) in Sibu contain 90% or more voters living in addresses without house number (blank NoRumah data),
• 14 out of 30 DMs contain 50%+ voters without house number,
• However, the average for the whole of Sibu (P212) is that 39% of voters are registered without house number, which is not far above the national average of about 1/3, possibly due to the other parts of Sibu being urbanized.

Table B: P212 Sibu By-Election Roll Dated 20100409
Percentage of Voters with Blank No. Rumah, Broken Down By DM

Parl/DUN/DM	NamaDUN	NamaDM	Blank_NoRumah	Total_Voters	Percent
212/47/08	BAWANG ASSAN	ENSURAI	182	182	100.0%
212/47/06	BAWANG ASSAN	SELALO	254	256	99.2%
212/47/01	BAWANG ASSAN	RASSAU	2,313	2,335	99.1%
212/47/09	BAWANG ASSAN	LAN	586	594	98.7%
212/47/10	BAWANG ASSAN	ENGKILO	1,601	1,623	98.6%
212/47/03	BAWANG ASSAN	BAWANG ASSAN	1,642	1,666	98.6%
212/47/04	BAWANG ASSAN	KUNYIT	364	370	98.4%
212/47/05	BAWANG ASSAN	MA`AW	741	754	98.3%
212/47/07	BAWANG ASSAN	DASSAN	1,073	1,097	97.8%
212/47/02	BAWANG ASSAN	PENASU	1,856	1,898	97.8%
212/49/05	NANGKA	TANGGI	277	284	97.5%
212/49/03	NANGKA	TEKU	1,091	1,179	92.5%
212/49/04	NANGKA	SEDUAN	1,815	2,407	75.4%
212/48/03	PELAWAN	SUNGAI MERAH	1,507	3,000	50.2%
212/48/06	PELAWAN	DISA	228	724	31.5%
212/47/11	BAWANG ASSAN	LOWER ISLAND	592	2,326	25.5%
212/48/11	PELAWAN	OYA LANE	545	2,333	23.4%
212/47/12	BAWANG ASSAN	UPPER ISLAND	309	1,342	23.0%
212/47/13	BAWANG ASSAN	TANAH MAS	356	1,673	21.3%
212/48/05	PELAWAN	BAHAGIA JAYA	433	2,249	19.3%
212/49/01	NANGKA	DATU NYABOR	302	1,654	18.3%
212/49/06	NANGKA	RACE COURSE	245	1,472	16.6%
212/48/04	PELAWAN	BANDONG	430	2,844	15.1%
212/48/07	PELAWAN	SUNGAI ANTU	183	1,267	14.4%
212/48/02	PELAWAN	PELAWAN	313	2,892	10.8%
212/48/01	PELAWAN	RAJANG PARK	337	3,484	9.7%
212/49/02	NANGKA	ILIR NANGKA	308	3,448	8.9%
212/48/08	PELAWAN	GAMBIR	286	3,333	8.6%
212/48/10	PELAWAN	MERDEKA	184	2,625	7.0%
212/48/09	PELAWAN	CAMAR	27	847	3.2%
Total non-postal voters			20,380	52,158	39.1%
Postal voters				2,537
Total voters				54,695