In the discovery application filed two weeks ago, the state government asked that the EC produce the addresses of 136,272 voters and also the original documents used to register themselves as voters.
Judicial Commissioner Azizul Azmi Adnan will hear the application on Feb 7.
It also requested that the EC produce minutes of meetings, showing how the commission implemented a 2012 recommendation by a Parliamentary Select Committee to clean up the electoral rolls nationwide.
The EC was also asked to supply a computer software application, Electoral Geographical Information System, used in the delineation exercise in Selangor.
The state is requesting for this vital information as it feared phantom voters were registered in several constituencies and these “unidentified voters” could also be shifted anytime to other polling districts.
In court documents sighted by FMT, it has also applied to cross-examine EC chairman Mohd Hashim Abdullah on an affidavit affirmed by him in response to the state’s judicial review application.
Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali has filed an affidavit in support of the discovery application.
In civil law, parties to an action cannot conduct a trial by ambush and as such the court could order key documents to be disclosed for the aggrieved party to substantiate its claims.
Selangor is seeking to nullify the EC’s notice of delineation as it argues it violated the constitution in drawing its new electoral boundaries.
The Selangor government also wants a declaration that the notice is lacking in details and will cause voters, local authorities or the state government to be unable to exercise their constitutional right to file representations.
It wants the court to quash the EC’s notice and an order to direct it to publish a fresh notice on the proposed exercise.
The EC published an 18-page notice in major newspapers in September on the proposed delineation in Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah.