Bringing you live updates of nomination day for the Galas and Batu Sapi by-elections.
Oct 262010
Sep 292010
Has Tengku Razaleigh been put in a spot? The BN MP or Umno division head for the area would ordinarily be expected to play a pivotal role in his party’s campaign.
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The Kelantan state assembly seat of Galas falls smack within his Gua Musang parliamentary constituency. But Ku Li is no ordinary MP. He has been one of Umno’s most vocal internal critics. Continue reading »
May 262010
The Sibu churches who received grants from the federal government during the recent by-election plan have missed the chance to take a public stand against vote-buying.
They intend to keep the money, their pastors offering a host of reasons, some of them maybe legitimate: it’s public money; they had applied for the money earlier; they went through proper procedures; what can they do if the money is given during the campaign; there were no conditions attached; they are tax-paying citizens as well. Continue reading »
May 242010
UPDATED: Pakatan polling agents were unable to witness the casting of ballots by over a thousand postal voters who were said to be located outside the Sibu police headquarters and two main army camps.
That’s the assertion made by an experienced Pas polling agent familiar with the process, which revealed glaring weaknesses and loop-holes in the Sibu by-election.
Back at Wisma Sanyan, the main coordinating centre for postal ballots, the agents for the Sibu by-election exercised unprecedented scrutiny over the counting and verification of the ballots.
As the agents spotted more and more discrepancies in the postal ballots, the pile of spoilt and rejected ballots grew higher and higher. (The agents had been thoroughly briefed on what to look out for.) Continue reading »
May 172010
One of the enduring moments of the Sibu by-election campaign was BN leader Najib Razak’s blatant vote-buying caught on video.
And after the poll result, The Star reports today on the carrot that Najib had dangled before voters: Continue reading »