Lim said Hishammuddin should lodge a police report on the issue and should also request a military investigation on the “phantom” army voters.
“I want him to answer immediately. If not, we in DAP will take it up in Parliament again,” Lim told FMT.
Hishammuddin said it made no sense for more than 1,000 servicemen and their spouses to be registered as voters at a military base still under construction in Johor.
“Nobody in his right mind would want to go to a place which is not conducive to live.
“It is also crazy to transfer military personnel without preparing housing there because those sent there will not vote for us. Logically speaking, that makes no sense.”
Lim said Election Commission chairman Mohd Hashim Abdullah should also answer about the voters registered to the army base under construction.
Hishammuddin said he would ask Armed Forces chief General Raja Mohamed Affandi Raja Mohamed Noor to explain the situation and stop it from becoming a political issue.
Kluang DAP MP Liew Chin Tong suggested that Hishammuddin intervene directly instead of asking Affandi.
“I hope Hisham will act speedily to direct the army to withdraw these names from the 3rd quarter of the electoral roll for the Segamat parliamentary seat.
“I also call on Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Subramaniam to not play dirty in the coming general election.
“As MIC president and a senior minister in the cabinet, he should not have to rely on shifting military voters into yet-to-be-completed military camps just to win the seat,” he said in a statement.
The Segamat army base is scheduled to be completed in April 2018 but 1,051 military personnel are reported to be already registered to vote in that area.
Liew had claimed the base was being built to enlist the personnel to ensure the victory of the Barisan Nasional (BN) in that constituency.
Liew said the 2017 3rd quarter supplementary electoral roll, which is currently being displayed, showed 1,079 military personnel and their spouses were registered to vote in the P140 Segamat parliamentary and N02 Jementah state constituencies.
Of the total, he said 1,051 voters were registered at the uncompleted Kem Segamat and 28 others at Regiment 501 Territorial Army Kem Segamat.
Hisham: Registering voters at an incomplete camp makes no sense