The four – whose names have been changed as they did not want their identity revealed – are Ganesh (in his 80s), Selvi (60s), Connie (50s) and Janaki (late 20s).
They said they had voted in the Lembah Pantai parliamentary constituency for the past few general elections.
Selvi said it all started in February 2017 when she, Connie and Janaki went to the one-stop government services centre, or UTC, in Pudu Sentral, to renew her MyKad.
She said as she was coming out of the centre, they were approached by three persons, who asked if she was a widow.
“I said yes, and informed them my child is handicapped. They gave us a form to fill up with our personal data, promising to visit our home to give us food aid,” she told reporters at the Lembah Pantai PKR office today.
After filling up the form, Selvi said they were given RM20 each by the three persons, and were told to come to Pudu Sentral on polling day to receive another RM80 for voting.
“But no one came to our homes to offer us the food aid that was promised,” she said, adding that they were not aware of what had transpired.
She said they were later informed by PKR communications director Fahmi Fadzil that their voting constituency had been changed.
Ganesh, meanwhile, said he too was approached by a stranger who asked him for his MyKad, as well as to fill up a form for food aid.
“The lady told me to come to Pudu on election day for more help.”
Fahmi said the four were among 53 voters who discovered that their names were transferred from Lembah Pantai to Sekinchan, following objections by DAP’s Sekinchan assemblyman Ng Suee Lim over the existence of new voters in the constituency.
Fahmi questioned the Election Commission (EC) over the transfer of voters without their knowledge, and also urged the National Registration Department to explain.
He added that of the 53 voters, PKR was only able to contact 10 of them.
“And out of that only four were willing to come forward for this press conference on the matter.
“We do not know if others are aware that their names have been transferred without their permission,” he said.
Fahmi has been speculated to contest the Lembah Pantai seat, currently held by PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar, for the next polls.
‘Date of birth changed’
Aside from the change of addresses, Fahmi said his party also discovered that the date of birth for some voters was also changed.
“There is a superintendent who was born in 1960. His date of birth has been changed to 1987,” said Fahmi, who promised to reveal more details soon.
Fahmi said his team’s work was made difficult because they could not get a soft copy of the list of voters from EC before it is gazetted.
Last year, Ng had questioned an abnormal increase of new voters in Rizab Sarbini, a village in Sekinchan.
He had then claimed that 358 new voters in the village, 232 of whom were non-Malays, were moved in from Klang, Kuala Lumpur, Sabah and Sarawak.
Ng said 1,614 new voters had surfaced in Sekinchan as published in last year’s electoral roll, an increase of more than 50% compared with the previous quarter of the electoral roll.