Why did PKRs elections take 4 months? South Africa, about 16.5 million voters, voting begins May 7, results announced May 10 (three days later); Indonesia (presidential election), about 133 million voters , voting begins July 9, results announced July 22 (13 days); India, about 553 million voters, voting begins April 7, results announced May 12 (36 days). The PKR elections were also held this year. Well under 100,000 voters were involved (final data apparently unavailable). Voting began on April 26 and the results were announced on Aug 22, making it 118 days. Why did this election process take so long? If voting at certain branches were delayed, what could have possibly constituted logical reasons for delaying the results in the order of months, instead of days or weeks? We recall as well the highly suspect phenomenon of the PKR election committee announcing at 10.17pm on Aug 12 via email that the results will be announced at 3pm on Aug 13. At 9.49am on Aug 13, they announced that the time has been postponed to 4pm. At 3.17pm that same day, the PKR election committee announced that the announcement of the results has been postponed indefinitely. So, what on earth was going on? With this flip-flopping, the serious allegations of electoral fraud, the inconceivable amount of time it took to complete the elections, and (arguably) the changes in between the last two announcements of results, can Malaysians be blamed for thinking that there is something amiss? If anyone associated with the Barisan Nasional was involved in a farce of this magnitude, Pakatan Rakyat, NGOs and members of the public would swarm them with endless allegations of manipulation and fraud. malaysiakini/news/272946
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 02:47:39 +0000
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