P059 Bukit Gantang - Voting Stations, Streams and Postal Voters

Where do voters vote in Bukit Gantang? How many voting stations are there and how many voters and voting streams in each?

Table A shows that:

• There are three DUNs under P059 Bukit Gantang
• There are 38 DMs (Daerah Mengundi, voting district) all together
• Some of the DMs share the same TMs (Tempat Mengundi, voting station), so there are 32 TMs
• There are 13DM and 11 TMs in Kuala Sapetang (N13), and 40 salurants (voting streams)
  
• There are 11DM and 10 TMs in Changkat Jering (N14), and 47 salurants
• There are 14DM and 11 TMs in Trong (N15), and 24 salurants
• Trong DUN has the fewest voters at 10,743.
• Total non-postal voter counti s 55,426.
• Postal voters total 136
  

Table A: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Summary Count of DUN, DM, TM, Saluran, Voters, Grouped By DUN

Parl/DUN	NamaDUN	DM count	TM count	Saluran count	Voter count
059/13	Kuala Sapetang	13	11	40	19,722
059/14	Changkat Jering	11	10	47	24,961
059/15	Trong	14	11	24	10,743
Count - nonpostal	3	38	32	111	55,426
Postal voters					136
Total including postal voters					55,562

Table B shows:

• How many saluran and voters are in each TM.
• It also shows which DMs share the the same TM.

• For example, 059/13/01 or Batu Gantang/Kuala Sapetang/Kamunting Station uses the school "Sekolah Kebangsaan Ayer Puteh" as a voting station, and occupies 5 salurans (usually meaning 5 classrooms). Total number of voters in these 5 saluran is 2,945
• However, 059/13/02 or Batu Gantang/Kuala Sapetang/Ayer Puteh also uses the same school as voting station, and occupies another 2 salurans. Total number of voters in these 2 saluran is 730.
• In total, these 2 DMs contain 3,675 voters, which makes this school a rather crowded place on by-election day.
  

Table B: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Non-Postal Voters By DM, with Info on TM/Saluran/Voter Count. Note some DMs share the same TMs.

Parl/ DUN/DM	NamaDUN	NamaDM	TM (Red text: TM shared by DMs)	Saluran Count	Voter Count	subtotal in shared TM
059/13/01	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Sekolah Kebangsaan Ayer Puteh	5	2,945
059/13/02	Kuala Sapetang	Ayer Puteh	Sekolah Kebangsaan Ayer Puteh	2	730	3,675
059/13/03	Kuala Sapetang	Simpang Halt	Sekolah Kebangsaan Simpang	5	2,586
059/13/04	Kuala Sapetang	Jebong	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Khea Wah Matang	4	1,801
059/13/05	Kuala Sapetang	Kuala Sapetang	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Poay Eng, Kuala Sepetang	6	3,351
059/13/06	Kuala Sapetang	Kampong Menteri	Sekolah Kebangsaan Laksamana, Kuala Sepetang	3	1,448
059/13/07	Kuala Sapetang	Matang Gelugor	Sekolah Kebangsaan Matang Gelugor	1	387
059/13/08	Kuala Sapetang	Sungai Limau	Sekolah Kebangsaan Matang Gelugor	1	460	847
059/13/09	Kuala Sapetang	Jalan Mangala	Sekolah Kebangsaan Matang	3	1,497
059/13/10	Kuala Sapetang	Kampong Jaha	Dewan Orang Ramai Kampong Jaha	1	308
059/13/11	Kuala Sapetang	Sungai Mati	Madrasah Aziziah Sungai Mati	2	761
059/13/12	Kuala Sapetang	Bendang Siam	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato` Wan Ahmad Rasdi	3	1,273
059/13/13	Kuala Sapetang	Changkat Ibol	Sekolah Kebangsaan Changkat Ibol	4	2,175
Subtotal				40	19,722
059/14/01	Changkat Jering	Pengkalan Aor	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Simpang	6	3,305
059/14/02	Changkat Jering	Simpang Lama	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Sin Min Simpang	4	2,146
059/14/03	Changkat Jering	Simpang Baru	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Sin Min Simpang	3	1,266	3,412
059/14/04	Changkat Jering	Jalan Simpang	Sekolah Agama Rakyat Al-Irshadiah Taman Kaya	5	2,980
059/14/05	Changkat Jering	Kawasan J.K.R	Sekolah Kebangsaan Pengkalan Aor,Taiping	6	3,236
059/14/06	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Sekolah Agama Rakyat Alkhairiah Addiniah Larut Tin	5	2,935
059/14/07	Changkat Jering	Ayer Kuning	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Pengkalan Aur, Air Kuning	5	2,605
059/14/08	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering	Sekolah Kebangsaan Changkat Jering	4	2,393
059/14/09	Changkat Jering	Jelutong	Sekolah Kebangsaan Jelutong	2	958
059/14/10	Changkat Jering	Bukit Gantang	Sekolah Kebangsaan Dato` Panglima Bukit Gantang	4	1,781
059/14/11	Changkat Jering	Kampong Cheh	Sekolah Kebangsaan Sultan Abdullah Kampong Cheh	3	1,356
Subtotal				47	24,961
059/15/01	Trong	Kuala Trong	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Siu Sin Trong	2	722
059/15/02	Trong	Pasir Hitam Trong	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Aik Hua Pasir Hitam	1	316
059/15/03	Trong	Kampong Tebok Trong	Dewan Orang Ramai Kampong Tebok Trong	1	545
059/15/04	Trong	Trong	Sekolah Kebangsaan Toh Johan Trong	1	563
059/15/05	Trong	Trong Barat	Sekolah Kebangsaan Toh Johan Trong	2	900
059/15/06	Trong	Bukit Gantang Selatan	Sekolah Kebangsaan Toh Johan Trong	2	903	2,366
059/15/07	Trong	Ayer Terjun	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Ngai Seng Ayer Terjun	1	498
059/15/08	Trong	Temelok	Sekolah Kebangsaan Temelok	3	1,311
059/15/09	Trong	Sungai Che Rahmat	Sekolah Kebangsaan Permatang Raja	1	303
059/15/10	Trong	Permatang Raja	Sekolah Kebangsaan Permatang Raja	2	999	1,302
059/15/11	Trong	Sungai Tinggi	Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Tinggi Trong	4	1,843
059/15/12	Trong	Padang Gajah	Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Gajah	2	881
059/15/13	Trong	Batu Hampar	Sekolah Kebangsaan Batu Hampar	1	656
059/15/14	Trong	Sungai Rotan	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Sungai Rotan	1	303
Subtotal				24	10,743
Total				111	55,426

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Tables C and D show that postal voters are not a big issue:

• there are only 128 police voters in this large area,
• there are only 8 absentee voters in this large area.
• This is unlike Kuala Terengganu where there is a large pool of FRU and police contingency units, or Lumut with large navy postal voters.
  

Table C: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Count POSTAL Voters By Localities
POLICE voters only

Parl/DUN/DM/Lokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM		NamaLokaliti	TM	Voter Count
059/13/05/701	Kuala Sapetang	Kuala Sapetang		Balai Polis Kuala Sapetang	Pos	31
059/14/01/701	Changkat Jering	Pengkalan Aor		Balai Polis Simpang	Pos	28
059/14/08/701	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering		Balai Polis Changkat Jering	Pos	16
059/15/02/701	Trong	Pasir Hitam Trong		Balai Polis Pasir Hitam	Pos	9
059/15/05/701	Trong	Trong Barat		Balai Polis Trong	Pos	24
059/15/12/701	Trong	Padang Gajah		Balai Polis Padang Gajah	Pos	20
Subtotal						128

Table C: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Count POSTAL Voters By Localities
Absentee, non-police, postal voters

Parl/DUN/DM/Lokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM		NamaLokaliti	TM	Voter Count
059/13/11/801	Kuala Sapetang	Sungai Mati		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	1
059/14/01/801	Changkat Jering	Pengkalan Aor		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	2
059/14/02/801	Changkat Jering	Simpang Lama		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	2
059/14/04/801	Changkat Jering	Jalan Simpang		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	1
059/14/06/801	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	1
059/14/08/801	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	1
Subtotal						8

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Understanding P203 N29 - Batang Air State Seat of Lubok Antu, Sarawak

Where is the P203 N29 state seat Batang Air on the map? How big is it? How many voters are there? How have they voted previously? Isn't Malaysia's largest hydroelectric dam called Batang Ai Dam?

Batang Air, traditionally known as Batang Ai, is about 200km east of Kuching and less than 100km south of Sibu, in Sarawak. It includes the western end of the central Sarawak mountain range as well as a small portion of river valley. It used to be called N25 in the 2001 state election, but has since been renamed N29.

Batang Air contains Batang Ai Dam, the largest operating hydroelectric dam in Malaysia, only waiting to be eclipsed by the unfinished and infamous Bakun Dam.

To the south, Batang Air borders Indonesia by over 100 kms. To the west, Batang Air is limited by highways No. 2109 and No. 1. To the north of Batang Air is N28 Engkilili DUN, the other DUN under P203 Lubok Antu. The eastern half is covered by mountain range. See map at WikiMapia.org.

The map on the right is sourced from http://maps.ysm.org.my.


Please help MAFREL

More than 1/2 of Batang Air is mountainous, and very difficult for MAFREL observers to cover.

Batang Air is also a huge area. We crudely estimate it to be 1,500 sq km; Batang Air looks about 75km wide and average about 20 km deep, based on WikiMapia.org satellite map and Wikimapia.org terrain map (right), and constituency map. This will make Batang Air DUN roughly 1.5x Penang state (1,046sqkm), 2x Perlis (810sqkm), 30x Putrajaya, and 6x KL FT. That is 1/4 the size of Brunei (5,765sqkm), and 2x of Singapore (710sqkm)! Note the relative size of Singapore and of part of Johor in the map to the right, as compared to Batang Air. (updated Mar 27)


Mostly hilly and jungle area, with about 100km of winding border adjoining Indonesia too!

Please donate or contribute man power to MAFREL's monitoring of Batang Air. See:

• Kuching report: election campaign picks up! (2009-03-24)
  
• Mafrel met Sarawak SPR Chief: transport issues still a major challenge
• Observers training about to reach target-but fund is still short

Voters Summary. Table A shows that Batang Air is a small DUN constituency with about 8 thousand voters. This contrasts sharply with Kedah's N25 Bukit Selambau, which is also a state seat but which contains about 35 thousand voters. A vote in Batang Air is equivalent to more than 4 votes in Bukit Selambau! (There goes the one-person-one-vote principle.)

Batang Air contains:

• 7,963 non-postal voters and 43 postal voters, totaling 8,006 voters.
• has 24 DMs (Daerah Mengundi, voting district), and 24 TMs (Tempat Mengundi, voting station),
  
• Most of the DMs and TMs have only 1 saluran (voting stream) for voting (except 203/29/02, which contains 2 salurans)
• Therefore, in total, there are 25 salurans
• Separately, we have calculated that most of the salurans are small. Min size is 75 voters, max size is 673 voters
  

Table A: P0203 Lubok Antu N29 Batang Air 200902 By-Election
Summary of Data By DUN

Parl/DUN	NamaDUN	DM count	TM count	Saluran count	Voter count
203/29	Batang Air	24	24	25	7,963
Non-postal	1	24	24	25	7,963
Postal voters					43
Total including postal voteres					8,006

Past Election Results

The current by-election at Batang Air is at the state (DUN) level. Batang Air faced state election in 2001 and May 2006, and parliamentary elections in March 2004 and March 2008. There was a seat delineation before the 2004 GE, and Batang Air has been re-numbered from N25 to N29.

• 2006 state election at Wikipedia.org was held on May 20, 2006.
• 2001 state election results in detail from Utusan.com.my. Lubok Antu was still called P177 then, Batang Ai was then N25. http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/SpecialCoverage/Sarawak2001/index.asp?pg=kawasan.htm
• http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/SpecialCoverage/Sarawak2001/index.asp?pg=p177_lubuk_antu.htm
  
• 2001 seat map from Utusan.com.my
  

• 2004 and 2008 parliamentary election results (P203 Lubok Antu) at http://undi.info/ax/state/sw/2008/parliament/P203.html
  
• 2004 and 2008 state-wide parliamentary results and map for Sarawak at http://undi.info/state/sw.html
  

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Understanding P014N25 - Bukit Selambau State Seat, Kedah

Where is the P014 N25 state seat Bukit Selambau? What do the maps look like? How many postal and non-postal voters are there now? How have voters there voted?

Foothill rubber plantations

Bukit Selambau (N25 ) is one of two state assembly seats under the Merbok parliamentary seat (P014) in southern Kedah. Bukit Selambau is located east of the coastal highway No.1, and east of the old rail road and two golf courses. It is is northeast of Sungai Petani, hence has a couple of industrial areas to its south. See Wikimapia.org map of highways.

Bukit Selambau is centered on a low hill east of Gunung Jerai and west of middle-section of Sungai Muda (where it runs north-south), which itself skirts the west of the Malaysian-Thai border mountain range.

Bukit Selambau's slopes and proximity to railroad and its northwest-peninsula's drier seasons historically made it a rubber plantation area with large ethnic Indian descendant population of rubber plantation labourer. This background is reflected in many locality names, and the non-specific voter addresses without house numbers, an issue we will discuss in later blog entries. See WikiMapia.org satellite + highway map hybrid.

The two maps on the right show the state assembly and parliamentary seats in Kedah state. Source is http://undi.info.


Table A below shows that:

• N25 Bukit Selambau is a state-assembly-level (DUN) constituency, as opposed to the other parliamentary seat of Bukit Gantang in Perak (with 3 DUNs).
• Bukit Selambau is a large one for a state-level seat, with 35,125 voters. In contrast, the largest DUN in Bukit Gantang has only nearly 25 thousand voters . Sarawak's Batang Air DUN by-election will involve only about 8 thousand voters.
• There are 22 DMs (Daerah Mengundi, voting districts).
• There are 22 TMs (Tempat Mengundi, voting stations), which means there are no sharing of voting stations across voting districts. This also means NGOs need to send at least 22 observers to just cover each voting station with one person.
• There are 64 voting streams, typically a voting classroom.

• Not shown in the table: Of the 15 postal voters, 10 are police personnel in 2 police stations. Five are absentee voters currently not living locally.
  

Table A: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election

Parl/DUN	NamaDUN	DM count	TM count	Saluran count	Voter count
014/25/01	Bukit Selambau	22	22	64	35,125
Total Count	1	22	22	64	35,125	non-postal voters
					15	postal voters
Total including postal voters					35,140	Total

To view voting history, candidate names, and racial breakdown, please see Undi.info at:

• N27 Bukit Selambu http://undi.info/ax/state/kd/2008/states/N25/P14.html
• P014 Merbok http://undi.info/ax/state/kd/2008/parliament/P14.html

Table B: Voting History in P014's N27 Bukit Selambu

2008 KEDAH: N25 - Bukit Selambau			Voters: 34,977
Party	Candidate	Votes	Majority
MIC	S Krishnan	10863
IND	V Arumugam	13225	2,362
Racial Breakdown
Malay: 50.20%, Chinese: 19.30%, Indian: 29.50%, Others: 1.00%
2004 KEDAH: N25 - Bukit Selambau			Voters: 30,322
Party	Candidate	Votes	Majority
MIC	Datuk V Saravanan	14196	7,695
PKR	Mustafa Khalid Hanafi	6501
DAP	G Ghanagaru a/l Ganisan	2120
Racial Breakdown
Malay: 48.3%, Chinese: 22.0%, Indian: 28.8%, Others: 0.8%
State Seats / Polling Districts
Kuala Sin, Kampong Sungkap, Bukit Lembu, Kongsi Enam, Sungai Lallang Luar, Sungai Lallang Utara, Bandar Laguna Merbok, Tasek Apong, Ayer Menideh, Jalan Badlishah, Taman Peruda, Taman Ria, Taman Ria Jaya, United Petani, Petani Para, Bukit Rusa, Pekan Bukit Selambau, Kampong Pokok Machang, Batu Belachan, Titi Panjang,

Source: http://undi.info
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Understanding P059 - Bukit Gantang Parliamentary Seat, Perak

Where is P059 Bukit Gantang? What do the maps look like? How many postal and non-postal voters are there now? How have voters there voted?
P059, or the parliamentary seat Bukit Gantang of Perak, is located south and west of Taiping. Of the three state assembly seats (DUN), N13 is a sea side estuary famous for its crab and seafood, hence the name Kuala (river mouth) and Sapetang (crabs). Trong is the smallest (in voter count), yet the largest (in area). WikiMapia.org map view of Bukit Gantang and satellite-map-hybrid view.

Table A shows that in P036, the Bukit Gantang parliamentary constituency:

• there are 3 DUNs or state assembly seats: N13 Kuala Sapetang, N14 Changkat Jering, and N15 Trong
  
• there are 38 DMs, or Daerah Mengundi, voting districts
• but there are only 32 TM, Tempat Mengundi, or voting stations (because 5 sets of DMs share the same TMs).
  
• This means NGOs need 32 observers to station at least one at each place.
  

• there are 111 Salurans, or voting streams (rooms), with the most in Changkat Jering.
• total voters number 55,426 excluding postal voters.
• There are another 136 postal voters,
• total voter count is 55,562.
  
• Changkt Jering has the most number of voters, nearly 25 thousand.
• Trong has the smallest number of voters, at 10,743. But it has the largest area, seen from the map below.
  

Table A: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Summary of Data By DUN

Parl/DUN	NamaDUN	DM count	TM count	Saluran count	Voter count
059/13	Kuala Sapetang	13	11	40	19,722
059/14	Changkat Jering	11	10	47	24,961
059/15	Trong	14	11	24	10,743
Total Count	3	38	32	111	55,426	non-postal voters
					136	postal voters
Total including postal voteres					55,562	Total

Tables B and C show that the 136 postal voters are split into:

• 128 police personnel postal voters at 6 locations, and
• another 8 absentee, non-police, postal voters.

Table B: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Count POSTAL Voters By Localities
POLICE voters only

Kodlokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM		NamaLokaliti		NoRumah	TM	Count
0591305701	Kuala Sapetang	Kuala Sapetang		Balai Polis Kuala Sapetang			Pos	31
0591401701	Changkat Jering	Pengkalan Aor		Balai Polis Simpang			Pos	28
0591408701	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering		Balai Polis Changkat Jering			Pos	16
0591502701	Trong	Pasir Hitam Trong		Balai Polis Pasir Hitam			Pos	9
0591505701	Trong	Trong Barat		Balai Polis Trong			Pos	24
0591512701	Trong	Padang Gajah		Balai Polis Padang Gajah			Pos	20
Subtotal								128

Table C: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Count POSTAL Voters By Localities
Absentee, non-police, postal voters

Kodlokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM		NamaLokaliti		NoRumah	TM	Count
0591311801	Kuala Sapetang	Sungai Mati		Pemilih Tak Hadir		14.411	Pos	1
0591401801	Changkat Jering	Pengkalan Aor		Pemilih Tak Hadir		48 A	Pos	2
0591402801	Changkat Jering	Simpang Lama		Pemilih Tak Hadir		75	Pos	2
0591404801	Changkat Jering	Jalan Simpang		Pemilih Tak Hadir		NO 676	Pos	1
0591406801	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin		Pemilih Tak Hadir		179	Pos	1
0591408801	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering		Pemilih Tak Hadir		JT 35	Pos	1
Subtotal								8

Map of parliamentary and state assembly seats.
Source: http://undi.info








Also see map at: WikiMapia.org view of Bukit Gantang

To view voting history, candidate names, and racial breakdown, please see Undi.info at:

P059 Bukit Gantang http://undi.info/ax/state/pr/2008/parliament/P59.html
N13 Kuala Sapetang http://undi.info/ax/state/pr/2008/states/N13/P59.html
N14 Changkat Jering http://undi.info/ax/state/pr/2008/states/N14/P59.html
N15 Trong http://undi.info/ax/state/pr/2008/states/N15/P59.html

Table D: Voting History in P059 Bukit Gantang

2008
PERAK: P59 - Bukit Gantang			Voters: 55,471
Party	Candidate	Votes	Majority
UMNO	Datuk Azim Zabidi	18,449
PAS	Roslan Shaharum	20,015	1,566
IND	M Morgan	872
Racial Breakdown
Malay: 63.50%, Chinese: 27.10%, Indian: 9.10%, Others: 0.20%
2004
PERAK: P59 - Bukit Gantang			Voters: 53,880
Party	Candidate	Votes	Majority
GERAKAN	Tan Lian Hoe	16,846	8,888
PAS	Dr Lo Lo Mohamed Ghazli	10,144
Racial Breakdown
Malay: 62.60%, Chinese: 27.60%, Indian: 9.70%, Others: 0.10%
State Seats / Polling Districts
N13 - Kuala Sapetang
Kamunting Station, Ayer Puteh, Jebong, Simpang Halt, Sapetang, Kampong Port Weld, Sungai Sapetang Kechil, Pekan Port Weld, Jalan Mangala, Kampong Jaha, Sungai Limau, Matang Gelugor, Sungai Mati, Bendang Siam, Changkat Ibol,
N14 - Changkat Jering
Pengkalan Aor, Simpang Lama, Simpang Baru, Kawasan J.k.r, Larut Tin, Jalan Simpang, Ayer Kuning, Changkat, Changkat Jering, Jelutong, Bukit Gantang, Kampong Cheh,
N15 - Trong
Kuala Trong, Pasir Hitam Trong, Kampong Tebok Trong, Trong, Trong Barat, Bukit Gantang Selatan, Sungai Keluang, Ayer Terjun, Kampong Temerloh, Ayer Terjun Tengah, Padang Gajah, Padang Gajah Tengah, Sungai Tinggi, Permatang Raja, Batu Hampar, Sungai Rotan, Sungai Che Rahmat,

Source: http://undi.info
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SPR sinks further into opacity and sluggishness

SPR transparency has deteriorated notably since mid 2008. Further, SPR slowed down quarterly gazetting of electoral rolls to 5 months.

These are the opacity, sluggishness, and oddities we have observed in SPR performance:

1. SPR no longer cites the specific gazette date for the electoral rolls to be used in the April 7 by-elections.

Regarding Bukit Selambau (P014N25) and Bukit Gantang (P059) by-elections, SPR informed Bernama (but without written statement on SPR's own Website) only in general quarterly. The SPR chairman said that "the electoral roll to be used was the Master Electoral Roll 2007 which had been merged with the supplementary electoral rolls for the first, second and third quarters of 2008." (See 3-in-1 By-Elections on April 7?)

When were these rolls officially gazetted? SPR didn't say.

We are left to dig and assume that, for the electoral roll ending third quarter (2008 Sep 30), the gazette date must be the latest gazette date 2009 February 19, displayed in the header on the voter look-up page at http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/daftarj/daftarbi.aspx (this is an already-gazetted, nationwide, roll for voters to look up on an individual basis). However, this is only an assumption, because SPR has previously used different by-election rolls than the latest-gazetted, nationwide, roll.

SPR's statement on Batang Ai to Bernama was even more opaque, failing to cite any data date or quarterly periods for the electoral roll to be used. See http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/bm/news.php?id=393934


2. SPR has failed to publicize official verification and gazetting processes since mid-2008:

1. the quarterly display and verification of supplementary rolls, and
   
2. the eventual gazetting of the quarterly changes to add to the nationwide electoral roll.

By law, quarterly (supplementary) changes to voter rolls must be displayed for the public to check before being gazetted.

But SPR seems to have kept an extremely low profile on these events in the second half of 2008, failing to make public statement about the displays or gazette. There has been no official SPR press statement on the SPR Web site or through the government mouth piece Bernama.

Why this secrecy in second half of 2008? Did SPR fear the inevitable confusion and protest by Permatang Pauh (P044) and Kuala Terengganu (P036) voters, due to the variances between those 2 by-election rolls (respectively dated 2008 July 31 and 2008 Dec 5) from the nearest nationwide gazetted rolls (respectively dated 2008 Jul 19 and 2008 Nov 28)? See "What's so complicated ..." and "surprises and guesses."

We are left to grasp at haphazard clues such as these:

• In December 2008 when we checked SPR's nationwide voter lookup page, the header revealed SPR has a gazetted version from 2008 November 28 (it has since been updated to the latest 2009 Feb 19). See our earlier post about "surprises and guesses."
  
• However, SPR statement to Bernama indicated it had also gazetted another by-election roll a few days later on 2008 Dec 5 for the KT by-election.
  
• We are again left to assume, that the KT roll was based on 2008 2nd quarter changes, meaning the changes were gazetted nearly 5 months after the close of the second quarter on 2008 Jun 30.

So far we learn a few things:

• a by-election roll may be gazetted (as in KT P036) or not gazetted (as in PP P044),
• a different by-election roll can be prepared only a few days after a nationwide roll has already been gazetted (especially in KT)
  
• A quarterly roll is recently being gazetted about 5 months after the quarter closes.
  

What did and did not the SPR publicize?

• SPR only publicized the SMS/Website by-election voter look-up on an individual basis. This is a very narrow announcement meant only for by-election voters, and only after gazette. An example of such an announcement is http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/news_lite.php?id=392795.
  
• In contrast, before mid-2008, SPR had faithfully announced that quarterly supplementary rolls for nationwide changes were available for verification at post offices and on the Web before they were gazetted. An example of such a broad announcement was made in January 2008 regarding 2007Q4 changes: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=307312
• The by-election voter look-up page (post-gazette? non-gazette?) for Bukit Selambau and Bukit Gantang (http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/semakp59n25/prayakecil.aspx) does not display a gazette date. Why?
  
• Only the nationwide (post-gazette) roll for voter to look up (http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/daftarj/daftarbi.aspx) did display a gazette date of 2009 Feb 19.
  

Questions, phrased differently:

• Why weren't the pre-gazette verification of the 3rd and 4th quarterly changes of 2008 publicized in the media, newspapers, and post offices?
• Why wasn't there any media notice or official press statement about the November 28, 2008 (presumably 2008 second quarter changes) gazetted roll just before KT by-election, and the recently gazetted roll of Feb 19, 2009 (presumably 2008 third quarter changes)?

• If the nationwide roll is identified as gazetted on 2009 Feb 19, but the by-elections rolls are not identified as gazetted, does that mean there have been changes to the by-election rolls of Bukit Selambau and Bukit Gantang rolls compared to the gazetted nationwide rolls?
  

3. SPR has sharlply slowed down its quarterly voter verification and gazettes.

While it took only 36 days to gazette the December 2007 changes by 2008 Feb 5 for the 2008 March 8 GE12, verification and gazettes since mid-2008 have been sluggish and non-transparent, and took nearly 5 months. (Note the 2007 fourth quarter roll had included a rush of enthusiastic voter registrations and massive postal movements, anticipating GE12.)

• What about 2008's 4th quarter? Why are we still using 2008 third-quarter roll changes?
• The gazetting process seems to have stretched out to about 5 months by now, compared to about 1 month for early 2008.

• Register for 6 months before you can vote: A voter in Bukit Gantang and Bukit Selambau who registered at the beginning of October 2008, eg, will not be able to vote in the by-elections, even more than 6 months after registration (from 2008 Oct 1 to 2009 Apr 7).
  

Table A shows that the pace of voter roll verification and gazette has slowed down to about 5 months.

Table A: Gazetting Process Slowing to 5 Months

Quarterly voter changes	2007Q4	2008Q1	2008Q2	2008Q3	2008Q4
Quarter closing	2007Dec31	2008Mar31	2008Jun30	2008Sep30	2008Dec31
Display on Web	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Gazette date	2008Feb5	2008Jun16	2008Nov28	2009Feb19	???
Days from quarter closing	36	107	151	142	???

4. Timing of by-election is dubious :

• KT's by-election had to wait for 51 days (out of the maximum 60 days allowed by law) because of the northeast monsoon rain in December, but Bukit Selambau and Bukit Gantang had to wait for 57 days for what?
• Why does by-election on a Tuesday, not on weekends, or even a Monday or Friday?
  
• Does Apr 4, Saturday, or 54 days make any difference in "security" except that minus 9 days means smack in the middle of UMNO party election?
  
• Why does nomination day on March 29 have to wait until just after UMNO's party election on March 28?

• Why create the longest-ever wait for by-election of 57 days, nearly the longest allowable by law, but the shortest allowable campaigning period of 9 days? Why not more campaigning days to accomodate the three differently-located by-elections?
  
• Why 3 by-elections on the same day, that will stretch all the media, opposition political parties, NGOs, volunteers, except the well-financed governing coalition which has never been ashamed or penalized for abusing government machinery and funds?

Also see:

• TheMalaysianInsider.com: EC fixes April 7 by-elections amid mixed reactions
• MalaysiaKini.com: Pakatan cries foul over polls date (subscription)
  
• Lim Kit Siang: Bukit Gantang/Selambau by-elections on April 7 - another example of craven subservience of Election Commission to serve Umno interests

More opacity:

• The online display of PDF copies of quarterly electoral changes on SPR Website has been discontinued since 2008Q2. see SPR becoming less transparent. Why?
  
• The official CD containing the roll only have a hand-writted "disahkan" (authenticated/confirmed) "18/2/2009," without details inside the CD.

• SPR seems to stop preparing any official announcement and stopped posting them on its website. As of 2009 March 8, we can only find press releases from 2008. Newspaper cutting is up to 2007. The latest statements on Bukit Selambau, Bukit Gantang, Batang Ai, are not carried on its website. It only contains an announcement to check voter roll for Bukit Selambau and Bukit Gantang, but not Batang Ali.
• Apparently the SPR is more interested in voters using SMS to check their status at RM0.35 extra charges per enquiry.
• Also see: http://www.spr.gov.my/index/pagemulabi.htm and http://www.spr.gov.my/index/news.htm
  

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3-in-1 By-Elections on April 7

The SPR decided to hold 3 by-elections simultaneously for Bukit Selambau (Kedah), Bukit Gantang (Perak), and Batang Ai (Sarawak) on April 7. To hold 3 by-elections in the middle of the week, that will stretch the resources for every media outlet, NGO, opposition party, and volunteers - except for the governing BN coaltion that has strangely never been punished by the SPR for blatant abuses of government resources during by-elections.

Update: No 4th by-election, in Pensiangan. On 2009 March 13, the federal court has decided to overturn an earlier High Court decision to nullify the Pensiangan resuult.

On February 13, the SPR announced that Bukit Gantang (parliamentary seat) and Bukit Selambau (state seat) by-elections will be held simultaneously on April 7. (Emphases added.) http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=389501

Bukit Gantang, Bukit Selambau Polls On April 7 PUTRAJAYA, Feb 13 (Bernama) -- The Bukit Gantang parliamentary and Bukit Selambau state by-elections will be held simultaneously on April 7. Nomination is on March 29. Election Commission chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof made the announcement after chairing a special meeting to discuss the by-election dates, which lasted nearly two hours, at the EC headquarters here today. The Bukit Gantang seat in Perak fell vacant after incumbent Roslan Shaharum of PAS died of a heart attack on Monday. On the same day, V. Arumugam of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) resigned as Kedah's Bukit Selambau assemblyman. Abdul Aziz told a news conference that the writs for the by-elections would be issued on Feb 16 and and the notices on Feb 17. Abdul Aziz said the electoral roll to be used was the Master Electoral Roll 2007 which had been merged with the supplementary electoral rolls for the first, second and third quarters of 2008. He said there were 55,562 registered voters in the Bukit Gantang constituency comprising 55,426 ordinary voters and 136 postal voters while Bukit Selambau had 35,140 registered voters -- 35,125 ordinary and 15 postal. He said the electoral rolls without polling streams would be on sale from Feb 21 and those with polling streams on Feb 25. There would be 32 polling centres and 111 polling streams in Bukit Gantang and 22 polling centres and 64 polling streams in Bukit Selambau. The nomination and vote-counting centres for Bukit Gantang would be at the Taiping Municipal Town Hall while the centres for Bukit Selambau would be at Sekolah Menengah Teknik Satu, Sungai Petani. Voters can check their polling centres at the EC web site at www.spr.gov.my of via SMS from Feb 25 by typing SPR IC number and sending to 15888. They can also call the EC headquarters in Putrajaya and the Perak and Kedah state election offices. -- BERNAMA

Then on March 4, the SPR announced that Batang Ai (Sarawak) state seat by-election will be will be held on April 7, the same day as the other 2 by-elections of Bukit Gantang and Bukit Selambau. (Emphases added.) http://bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=393939

April 7 For Batang Ai State By-election KUCHING, March 4 (Bernama) -- Polling for the Batang Ai state by-election here will be held on April 7, simultaneously with the polls for the Bukit Gantang parliamentary seat in Perak and Bukit Selambau state seat in Kedah. Election Commission chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said today nomination was fixed for March 29, like for the other two seats. Notice of the writ would be issued on Friday. The seat fell vacant following the death of incumbent Datuk Dublin Unting Ingkot, the Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) vice-president, on Feb 24. Abdul Aziz said that after considering several factors, the EC felt that the Sarawak EC officer was ready for the by-election and it was timely to hold the by-elections simultaneously to avoid a long campaigning period. An allocation of RM400,000 had been approved for the by-election, he told reporters after chairing a two-hour meeting to set the polling date. A total of 24 polling centres would be opened at schools, longhouses, kindergartens and government premises while 201 workers would be deployed, he said adding that Batang Ai had 8,006 registered voters comprising 7,963 ordinary and 43 postal voters. Abdul Aziz said the EC had also agreed to set up an election campaign enforcement team led by an enforcement officer and comprising a police officer, a local authority representative representatives of the candidates to monitor the campaigning besides allowing Malaysia For Free and Fair Election (Mafrel) to act as observers in the by-election. Dublin won the Iban-majority seat in the state election in May 2006, beating Nicholas Bawin Anggat of Sarawak National Party (Snap) by 806 votes, and was appointed state Assistant Sports and Agriculture Minister. -- BERNAMA

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90 Voters in a Big House in KT

90 voters live in the same big house at No. 1089-A of Kg Kuala Ibai in Kuala Terengganu. SPR's inconsistent house numbering format understates the number of voters in the same houses. Meanwhile, 453 voters are registered without house number (NoRumah) at a single locality, ie, Kg Gong Tok Nasek.

Background: Many voters in the same address

• We need to differentiate between two types of "large addresses":
  


1. Many voters in a locality without house number.
   • These are also listed and discussed in Table C of article "8,388 or 10% of KT Voters Have No NoRumah".
   • This type involves many large cases, and usually involves a village address registered with up to a few hundreds of voters.
   • An example is the 453 voters registered at " [Blank NoRumah] Kg Gong Tok Nasek."
   • This type is difficult to verify, because they have only a village name, no street name, no house numbers, and there are many such voters in one address.
   
   
2. Many voters in the same house with a house number.
   • This type involves relatively fewer voters per address, and a specific house number, that may be easier to verify.
     
   • An example is the 12 voters registered at "352 Kg Gong Tok Nasek" - the same village as the above example.
   • However, there is widespread inconsistency in SPR address formats, hiding many voters in the same house.
     
   • An example is the 90 voters registered at "1089-A Kg Kuala Ibai," including these variations of the address:
   • 1089-A Kg Kuala Ibai: 56 voters
   • 1089 A Kg Kuala Ibai: 23 voters
   • 1089A Kg Kuala Ibai: 7 voters
     
   • 1089 - A Kg Kuala Ibai: 4 voters
   • These are 90 voters all in the same house!
     

• But the above two types are intertwined, because the same locality can contain voters both with and without house numbers.
• In the example above, Kg Gong Tok Nasek contains 453 voters without house number. But Kg Gong Tok Nasek also contains 12 voters with house numbers 352, and 9 voters with these house numbers - 144, 173, 212, 214, etc.
• This shows that voters at Kg Gong Tok Nasek could have been registered with more specific address, only that NRIC Department or SPR have not registered these voters properly.

• There are three possible, half-legitimate, reasons for such large and vague addresses, although they all reflect badly on either the SPR, NRIC Department, or the government's economic development credential:
• Some large addresses (not the village type typical in KT) may be apartments, and SPR or NRIC Department failed to register the complete apartment information.
• SPR or NRIC Department may have skipped the details about street name, even when given.
• Rural development is so poor that 1/3 voters in Terengganu still do not have a proper street name and house number.
  

• Again, if election observers can prove (by photocopied ICs that are safely crossed and cancelled) that there is a large number of voters whose ICs indeed show detailed address such as house numbers and street names, but whose voter registrations do not show house numbers or street name, then we can make a strong case to make all voter registrations automatic, based on MyKad and NRIC database, instead of SPR's haphazard registration and input procedure.

• To protect voter privacy, the tables here will not list the full IC, name, and address details living in the large addresses that will be required to check these "big addresses." Rather, we will provide these details to MAFREL field verification teams.
  

Table A lists address WITHOUT house numbers, and shows:

• 10 of the largest addresses, which are localities without house numbers.
• This issue has been discussed in the article "8,388 or 10% of KT Voters Have No NoRumah"
• For a more detailed table, see Table C of the above article NoRumah"

• In searching for house numbers (NoRumah), we have partially cleaned up the data by eliminating confusing variations such as "-" (which also means a blank), "No. " (with a space), "No." without space, "N0." (with a zero), etc. See this table for more details. Therefore, our search for blank house number and similar house numbers will turn up more cases than without the clean-up effort.
• The tables below also exclude postal voters, almost all of whom are registered without house number. Police and army postal addresses are public information, and we do not count them as "missing" house number or large addresses.
  

Table A: Top 10 Cases of Many Voters in the Same Address WITHOUT House Number

Kodlokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah	Count
036/16/03/001	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek		453
036/16/02/001	Batu Buruk	Kampung Nibung	Kg Nibung		381
036/16/06/008	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Pantai Pendek		364
036/16/09/001	Batu Buruk	Mengabang Tengah	Kg Mengabang Tengah		309
036/16/03/002	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Pak Maseh		291
036/16/05/002	Batu Buruk	Kuala Ibai	Kg Kuala Ibai		245
036/16/10/005	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Kolam		234
036/16/07/001	Batu Buruk	Cendering	Kg Raja Barang		225
036/13/06/001	Wakaf Mempelam	Seberang Baruh	Kg. Seberang Baruh		205
036/16/10/007	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Teluk Tok Adis		192

Table B lists houses WITH house numbers, and shows:

• Addresses (Locality WITH House Number) where 15 or more voters are registered.
• Most localities are village (kampung) address; some are more specific street addresses (eg, "Jln. Banggul")
  
• The highest number of voters is 56, at 1089-A Kg Kuala Ibai, but ...
  

• This table also illustrates the problem of SPR address format inconsistencies.
  
• For example, "1089-A Kg Kuala Ibai" (56 voters) and "1089 A Kg Kuala Ibai" (23 voters) are essentially the same address.
  
• At the bottom are at least 2 other variations (1089A with 7 voters and 1089 - A with 4 voters).
• In total, there are 90 (=56+23+7+4) voters in the same house number!
  
• In Table B, we have not yet cleaned and consolidated these SPR address format inconsistencies.
• Such inconsistencies significantly understate the number of voters per house address.
  
• These "1089-A" cases are highlighted in blue and red.

Table B: Many Voters in the Same Address - A Locality, WITH House Number

Kodlokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah	Count
036/16/05/002	Batu Buruk	Kuala Ibai	Kg Kuala Ibai	1089-A	56
036/13/10/004	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	Kg Sungai Rengas	935	28
036/14/09/012	Bandar	Pantai Terengganu	Kg. Tanjung Nisan Empat	783	28
036/14/04/003	Bandar	Losong Masjid	Kg. Losong Masjid	33	24
036/14/01/002	Bandar	Tok Ku	Kg Tok Ku	1064	23
036/14/04/003	Bandar	Losong Masjid	Kg. Losong Masjid	26	23
036/14/09/012	Bandar	Pantai Terengganu	Kg. Tanjung Nisan Empat	755	23
036/16/05/002	Batu Buruk	Kuala Ibai	Kg Kuala Ibai	1089 A	23
036/14/06/005	Bandar	Kampung Cina	Kg. China	229	22
036/14/07/008	Bandar	Pejabat Bandaran	Kg Dalam Kota	37	22
036/16/05/002	Batu Buruk	Kuala Ibai	Kg Kuala Ibai	1063	22
036/14/03/002	Bandar	Hiliran Masjid	Kg. Hiliran Masjid	146	21
036/16/06/008	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Pantai Pendek	514	21
036/14/01/005	Bandar	Tok Ku	Kg Tok Kaya	1012	20
036/14/03/002	Bandar	Hiliran Masjid	Kg. Hiliran Masjid	135	20
036/14/04/003	Bandar	Losong Masjid	Kg. Losong Masjid	22	20
036/14/06/001	Bandar	Kampung Cina	Jln. Banggul	19	20
036/15/04/002	Ladang	Gong Kapas	Jln. Panji Alam	1712	20
036/13/03/003	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Datok Amar	Kg Losong Ferry	523	19
036/13/10/005	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	Kg Pulau Musang	692	19
036/14/01/003	Bandar	Tok Ku	T Lot Makam Lama	44	19
036/14/02/004	Bandar	Cabang Tiga	Kg Losong Hj. Su	170	19
036/14/06/005	Bandar	Kampung Cina	Kg. China	218-2/5	19
036/14/07/017	Bandar	Pejabat Bandaran	Jln. Bandar	235-D	19
036/14/08/003	Bandar	Paya Bunga	Jln. Petani	105	19
036/15/05/002	Ladang	Pasir Panjang	Kg Pasir Panjang	1358	19
036/13/10/004	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	Kg Sungai Rengas	823	18
036/13/10/005	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	Kg Pulau Musang	717	18
036/14/01/002	Bandar	Tok Ku	Kg Tok Ku	60	18
036/14/01/002	Bandar	Tok Ku	Kg Tok Ku	1060	18
036/14/01/003	Bandar	Tok Ku	T Lot Makam Lama	66	18
036/14/02/004	Bandar	Cabang Tiga	Kg Losong Hj. Su	100	18
036/14/03/002	Bandar	Hiliran Masjid	Kg. Hiliran Masjid	183	18
036/14/06/001	Bandar	Kampung Cina	Jln. Banggul	23	18
036/14/06/007	Bandar	Kampung Cina	Kg. Tiung	105	18
036/15/05/002	Ladang	Pasir Panjang	Kg Pasir Panjang	1345	18
036/16/05/002	Batu Buruk	Kuala Ibai	Kg Kuala Ibai	1064	18
036/13/04/009	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Penglima Perang	Kg Losong Penglima Perang	128	17
036/14/02/003	Bandar	Cabang Tiga	Kg. Cabang Tiga	48	17
036/14/02/003	Bandar	Cabang Tiga	Kg. Cabang Tiga	49	17
036/14/04/003	Bandar	Losong Masjid	Kg. Losong Masjid	59	17
036/14/05/002	Bandar	Pulau Kambing	Kg. Bandar Baru	245	17
036/14/08/009	Bandar	Paya Bunga	Kg Dalam Bata	29	17
036/15/01/004	Ladang	Ladang	Kg Ladang Sekolah	927	17
036/15/04/003	Ladang	Gong Kapas	Jln. Kamaruddin	1774	17
036/13/04/004	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Penglima Perang	Kg Losong Megat Hussin	227	16
036/13/04/009	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Penglima Perang	Kg Losong Penglima Perang	352	16
036/13/04/009	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Penglima Perang	Kg Losong Penglima Perang	423	16
036/13/04/009	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Penglima Perang	Kg Losong Penglima Perang	712	16
036/13/05/001	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Hj Mat Shafie	Kg Losong Ebeng	631	16
036/13/11/009	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	Kg Gong Pauh	E-7	16
036/14/01/002	Bandar	Tok Ku	Kg Tok Ku	84	16
036/14/01/002	Bandar	Tok Ku	Kg Tok Ku	85	16
036/14/01/002	Bandar	Tok Ku	Kg Tok Ku	1057	16
036/14/02/003	Bandar	Cabang Tiga	Kg. Cabang Tiga	42	16
036/14/03/002	Bandar	Hiliran Masjid	Kg. Hiliran Masjid	168	16
036/14/05/001	Bandar	Pulau Kambing	Kg. Balik Bukit	45	16
036/14/06/003	Bandar	Kampung Cina	Jln Sultan Ismail	22	16
036/14/06/005	Bandar	Kampung Cina	Kg. China	166	16
036/14/08/003	Bandar	Paya Bunga	Jln. Petani	50	16
036/14/09/001	Bandar	Pantai Terengganu	Jln. Sultan Zainal Abidin	135	16
036/15/04/001	Ladang	Gong Kapas	Kg. Gong Kapas	291	16
036/16/09/001	Batu Buruk	Mengabang Tengah	Kg Mengabang Tengah	1433	16
036/13/03/005	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Datok Amar	Kg Losong Pasir	431	15
036/13/04/009	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Penglima Perang	Kg Losong Penglima Perang	35	15
036/13/04/009	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Penglima Perang	Kg Losong Penglima Perang	315	15
036/13/05/002	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Hj Mat Shafie	Kg Losong Hj Mat Shafie	753	15
036/13/07/002	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Beruas	Kg Melintang	1304	15
036/14/01/002	Bandar	Tok Ku	Kg Tok Ku	91	15
036/14/01/002	Bandar	Tok Ku	Kg Tok Ku	1059	15
036/14/01/004	Bandar	Tok Ku	Kg. Simpang Tok Ku	1022	15
036/14/02/003	Bandar	Cabang Tiga	Kg. Cabang Tiga	26	15
036/14/03/002	Bandar	Hiliran Masjid	Kg. Hiliran Masjid	60	15
036/14/03/003	Bandar	Hiliran Masjid	Kg Kuala Hiliran	164	15
036/14/04/003	Bandar	Losong Masjid	Kg. Losong Masjid	88	15
036/14/09/012	Bandar	Pantai Terengganu	Kg. Tanjung Nisan Empat	593	15
036/14/09/012	Bandar	Pantai Terengganu	Kg. Tanjung Nisan Empat	756	15
036/15/02/002	Ladang	Mengadang Akar	Kg Ladang Sahat	8	15
036/15/05/002	Ladang	Pasir Panjang	Kg Pasir Panjang	58	15
036/15/05/002	Ladang	Pasir Panjang	Kg Pasir Panjang	1437	15
036/15/05/002	Ladang	Pasir Panjang	Kg Pasir Panjang	1441	15
036/16/02/001	Batu Buruk	Kampung Nibung	Kg Nibung	1399	15
036/16/06/008	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Pantai Pendek	1770	15
...
036/16/05/002	Batu Buruk	Kuala Ibai	Kg Kuala Ibai	1089A	7
...
036/16/05/002	Batu Buruk	Kuala Ibai	Kg Kuala Ibai	1089 - A	4

Table C shows that:

• A locality can contain addresses both WITH AND WITHOUT house number.
• In this example below, the address of "Kg Gong Tok Nasek" without house number contains 453 voters.
• But the same address with house number "12" contains 1 voter, and house number "20" contains 2 voters, etc.
• In total (not fully listed in Table C), this locality (Kodlokaliti 036/16/03/001), including all its house numbers, make up 809 unique addresses (809 table rows of locality+ house number) and 2,143 voters.
• Table C selectively lists only 10 of the 809.
• Many of these "unique addresses" are variations of the same address because of SPR's inconsistent house number format, such as house no. "1008 C" and "1008-C" (highlighted in red).

Table C: Related Addresses - Selected Unique Addresses (House Number At Kodlokaliti 036/16/03/001) and Voter Count, Including Blank House Number

Kodlokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah	Voter count in this unique address
036/16/03/001	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek		453
036/16/03/001	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek	12	1
036/16/03/001	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek	20	2
036/16/03/001	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek	21	1
…	…	…	…	…	…
036/16/03/001	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek	1008 C	1
036/16/03/001	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek	1008-C	3
036/16/03/001	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek	1008-L	1
…	…	…	…	…	…
036/16/03/001	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek	LOT 946	2
036/16/03/001	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek	LOT 995	1
036/16/03/001	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek	LOT 995-G	1
Total voter count in this locality 036/16/03/001					2,143
Total unique addresses (Kodlokaliti+NoRumah) in locality (10 listed above)					809

Table D shows that:

• KT (P036) parliamentary seat contains 35,729 unique addresses (locality plus a house number or blank house number).
• For example, 1 Jalan Besar, 1A Jalan Besar, [no house number] Jalan Besar, and 1 Jalan Bukit are four distinct and unique (fictitious) addresses.
• Of the 35,729 unique addresses in KT, 256 are localities without a house number.
• This type tends to have a high voter count in the same address, because this is a general address, such as a village address.
• For example, the table shows 1 address without house number in KT contain voters in the range of 400-499 voters (It is actually "[Blank house number] Kg Gong Tok Nasek")
• The other 35,473 are localities with a house number.
• The fact that they have a house number make them more specific locations, containing fewer voters in the same address.
  
• For example, there is one address with voter count in the range of 50-59, and 17 addresses with voter count in the range of 20-29.

Table D: Count of Unique Addresses (Locality+House Number or Blank)

Voter count		Cout of unique addresses ...
From	To	WITHOUT house number	WITH house number	Total Cases
400	499	1	-	1
300	399	3	-	3
200	299	5	-	5
100	199	14	-	14
80	99	6	-	6
60	79	12	-	12
50	59	3	1	4
40	49	6	-	6
30	39	10	-	10
20	29	17	17	34
10	19	46	371	417
8	9	15	430	445
6	7	18	994	1,012
4	6	23	2,736	2,759
3	3	20	3,168	3,188
2	2	27	6,685	6,712
1	1	30	21,071	21,101
Total		256	35,473	35,729

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8,388 or 10% of KT Voters Have No NoRumah

10.5% of voters in Kuala Terengganu are registered without a house number (NoRumah), even after excluding postal voters. SPR's voter address registration seems archaic, with 35% voters nationwide without house numbers, and without ZIP code. Why not automatically register voters and use MyKad address?

Background:

• Nation-wide, 35% of voters were registered with the SPR without a house number (NoRumah) for GE12 electoral roll gazetted on 2008 Feb 5. See NoRumah? No Rumah? More than 1/3 voters homeless?
• Sabah led the blurry pack, with 92% of voters not registering their house number.
• Terengganu state overall had 35.2% voters without house numbers.
• The relatively urbanized Kuala Terengganu (P036) in 2008 Feb 5 had 10.6% voters without NoRumah.
• Using the latest KT roll of 2008 Dec 5, we found only slight improvement to 10.5% voters without NoRumah.

• In Permatang Pauh by-election roll dated 20080731, 1,020 or 1.8% voters were without house numbers. See this report.
  
• Our analysis exclude postal voters. Had postal voters been included, the percentage will be even higher by about 1% to 3%.
• Our analysis also tries to standardize variations of entries, such as "-" and other text that denotes blank, such as "tiada","null","*", etc.

Table A provides the overview that:

• 8,388 or 10.5% of voters in KT are registered without a house number, only a "locality" such as a village or kampung address.
• Batu Buruk has the most cases in KT, with 4,611 voters without house numbers.
• All Tables A, B, C are constructed after excluding postal voters.
  

Table A: Count of Voters Without NoRumah By DUN
20081205 - Excluding Postal Voters

Parl/DUN	NamaDUN	Voters Without NoRumah
03613	Wakaf Mempelam	2,451
03614	Bandar	415
03615	Ladang	911
03616	Batu Buruk	4,611
036	Kuala Terengganu	8,388
	All voters	80,229
		10.5%

Questions: (also see this article):

• Is it National Register of IC Department or SPR who omitted the house numbers?
• If NRIC have specific address details, why not automatically register voters with MyKad info?
• Why allow SPR procedure to introduce another hard-to-detect and hard-to-correct, and widespread, error?
• Is rural development so backward 51 years after national independence that most rural voters have no specific house address?
• Why do some voters in the same village have specific house numbers, when others do not?

• If election observers can prove (by photocopied ICs that are safely crossed and cancelled) that there is a large number of voters whose ICs indeed show detailed address and house numbers, but whose voter registrations do not show house numbers, then we can make a strong case to make all voter registrations automatic, based on MyKad and NRIC database.

Table B lists those voting districts (DM, Daerah Mengundi) that have 20 or more voters registered without a house number. It shows:

• Cendering Pandai (036/16/06) has 916, the highest number of voters with blank house numbers.
• There are 14 DMs, each with more than 200 voters without house numbers.
  

Table B: Voting Districts With the Most Voters Without NoRumah
20081205 - Excluding Postal Voters

Parl/ DUN/DM	NamaDUN	NamaDM	Voters
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	916
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	832
036/16/03	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	744
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	469
036/15/06	Ladang	Bukit Bayas	449
036/16/07	Batu Buruk	Cendering	423
036/16/02	Batu Buruk	Kampung Nibung	394
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	375
036/13/10	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	358
036/16/04	Batu Buruk	Bukit Depu	331
036/16/09	Batu Buruk	Mengabang Tengah	309
036/13/08	Wakaf Mempelam	Merbau Patah	289
036/16/05	Batu Buruk	Kuala Ibai	247
036/13/06	Wakaf Mempelam	Seberang Baruh	205
036/13/07	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Beruas	198
036/16/08	Batu Buruk	Taman Permint Jaya	176
036/13/01	Wakaf Mempelam	Pulau Rusa	158
036/13/09	Wakaf Mempelam	Durian Burung	156
036/15/05	Ladang	Pasir Panjang	135
036/16/01	Batu Buruk	Pantai Batu Buruk	125
036/16/11	Batu Buruk	Kenanga	114
036/13/05	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Hj Mat Shafie	102
036/15/02	Ladang	Mengadang Akar	90
036/14/09	Bandar	Pantai Terengganu	87
036/13/04	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Penglima Perang	73
036/15/07	Ladang	Bukit Besar	72
036/13/03	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Datok Amar	68
036/14/08	Bandar	Paya Bunga	64
036/15/01	Ladang	Ladang	64
036/15/04	Ladang	Gong Kapas	64
036/14/05	Bandar	Pulau Kambing	62
036/14/01	Bandar	Tok Ku	54
036/14/07	Bandar	Pejabat Bandaran	44
036/14/02	Bandar	Cabang Tiga	38
036/15/03	Ladang	Batas Baru	37
036/14/06	Bandar	Kampung Cina	25
036/14/04	Bandar	Losong Masjid	21
036/14/03	Bandar	Hiliran Masjid	20
	P036 Kuala Terengganu		8,388

Table C shows that:

• A locality is meant to be a street, village general address, police quarters, army camp, or a representation of absentee voters.
• But some localities contain hundreds of voters without house number.
• 23 localities in KT contain more than 100 voters without a specific house number.
• Most are a village (kampung) general address. But there is a hospital address, and even a street address (Jln Sultan Mahmud) with 33 voters registered without a house number.

Table C: Count of Voters Without NoRumah By Locality
Showing Only Localities with 30 or More Voters Without NoRumah
20081205 - Excluding Postal Voters

Kodlokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	Count of voters
036/16/03	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek	453
036/16/02	Batu Buruk	Kampung Nibung	Kg Nibung	381
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Pantai Pendek	364
036/16/09	Batu Buruk	Mengabang Tengah	Kg Mengabang Tengah	309
036/16/03	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Pak Maseh	291
036/16/05	Batu Buruk	Kuala Ibai	Kg Kuala Ibai	245
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Kolam	234
036/16/07	Batu Buruk	Cendering	Kg Raja Barang	225
036/13/06	Wakaf Mempelam	Seberang Baruh	Kg. Seberang Baruh	205
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Teluk Tok Adis	192
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Batu 6 Cendering	187
036/16/08	Batu Buruk	Taman Permint Jaya	Kg Kubang Ikan	152
036/16/04	Batu Buruk	Bukit Depu	Kg. Masjid Hj. Kadir	146
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Gong Kemunting	141
036/13/08	Wakaf Mempelam	Merbau Patah	Kg Kubang Parit	141
036/13/10	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	Kg Sungai Rengas	139
036/15/06	Ladang	Bukit Bayas	Kg Bukit Bayas	135
036/15/06	Ladang	Bukit Bayas	Kg. Gelung Bilal	124
036/16/04	Batu Buruk	Bukit Depu	Kg Bukit Depu	119
036/13/09	Wakaf Mempelam	Durian Burung	Kg. Durian Burung	117
036/15/05	Ladang	Pasir Panjang	Kg Pasir Panjang	116
036/15/06	Ladang	Bukit Bayas	Kg Sungai Derhaka	111
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	Kg Kuala Bekah	102
036/13/07	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Beruas	Kg Wakaf Beruas	98
036/13/01	Wakaf Mempelam	Pulau Rusa	Kg Pulau Rusa	97
036/13/05	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Hj Mat Shafie	Kg Losong Hj Mat Shafie	91
036/13/10	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	Kg Pulau Musang	90
036/13/10	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	Kg Kubang Tangga	88
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	Kg Wakaf Mempelam	84
036/13/08	Wakaf Mempelam	Merbau Patah	Kg Merbau Patah	78
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Padang Luar	78
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg. Banggul	77
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Simpang Empat	76
036/16/07	Batu Buruk	Cendering	Kg Raja	74
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	Kg. Gelugur Raja	73
036/16/01	Batu Buruk	Pantai Batu Buruk	Kompleks Hospital Besar K. Tr	73
036/13/08	Wakaf Mempelam	Merbau Patah	Kg Panji	70
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	Kg. Teluk Paku	70
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	Kg Bukit Kubang Jambu	65
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Pengkalan Raja Wali	63
036/15/06	Ladang	Bukit Bayas	Kg. Seberang Baruh	60
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	Kg Tok Jamal	59
036/15/07	Ladang	Bukit Besar	Kg Bukit Besar	59
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Lembah	58
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Teluk	48
036/13/07	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Beruas	Kg Melintang	45
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	Kg. Pak Pa	44
036/16/07	Batu Buruk	Cendering	Kg Ketapang	41
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	Kg Paluh	40
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Hujung Jambatan	40
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	Kg Paluh Hj Daud	39
036/15/02	Ladang	Mengadang Akar	Kg Ladang Sheikh Ibrahim	37
036/16/07	Batu Buruk	Cendering	Kg Bukit Batu Putih	37
036/16/04	Batu Buruk	Bukit Depu	Kg. Gelung Gajah	37
036/13/09	Wakaf Mempelam	Durian Burung	Kg. Bukit Kubang Jambu	36
036/16/11	Batu Buruk	Kenanga	Kg. Batu Buruk	36
036/13/07	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Beruas	Kg Pak Bang	35
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	Kg Paluh Sungai Kiat	34
036/16/11	Batu Buruk	Kenanga	Jln Sultan Mahmud	33
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Pantai Teluk	30

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