State deputy director Kamarul Azman Ahmad Sabri said of the number, only 1,170 are in Selangor.
He said assistant registrar officers (AROs) had been placed at every military camp in Selangor to ensure the proper registration of servicemen stationed there.
“This is the number that we have in Selangor. I am not sure if they are new officers or have been transferred from other camps,” he told FMT today.
He was responding to Pakatan Harapan (PH) leaders who recently questioned the 28,416 names of armed forces members and their families, including 7,600 in Kuala Lumpur, added by the EC.
On Wednesday, DAP’s Serdang MP Ong Kian Ming submitted a letter to the Selangor EC office, asking to see the B forms filled out by those in his constituency who have their names on the EC’s list of demands.
He said based on Section 14 of the Elections (Registration of Electors) Regulations 2002, a B form must be filled out by those demanding that their names be entered into the supplementary electoral roll.
He also asked the EC to explain how “carelessness” could have led to over 28,000 names being lost from the roll, resulting in these voters having to fill out the B form.
Ong asked if people with vested interests were using this as a “backdoor” means to get the names of new people on the supplementary electoral roll.
This came after PKR’s Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar revealed that the names of the 28,416 servicemen and their family members were on the list for the whole nation. She expressed concern that this might influence the outcome of the 14th general election (GE14) in favour of Barisan Nasional (BN).
Speaking today, Kamarul Azman said the 28,416 names were the amount stated for the whole country, not just Selangor. He added however that the Selangor EC only had authority over electoral matters in the state.
He said the concerns Ong had raised in his letter were beyond the scope of the agency at the state level.
He added that the Selangor EC had conducted a voter registration exercise from May 25 to 31 to give an opportunity to military personnel to add their names to the electoral roll if they had been lost.
Serdang MP fears some using ‘backdoor’ entry onto voter list