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Crying foul, Anwar disputes GE13 results
We’ve won, claims Anwar
‘Phantom voters employed by Pakatan’
Rival groups scuffle in Air Puteh
Kedah police identify group planning to cause disturbance at 15 polling centres
Anwar’s politicisation of ‘fraud’
Manager mistaken for phantom voter assaulted
Pakatan in Putrajaya: Taib, Dr M in dock?
Ink not so indelible after all
Final push in Malaysia elections
GE13: Husam's mother passes away just before polling day
On the eve of an election, the Malaysian web comes under attack
Malaysians prepare to head to polls
BN faces fight of its life in M’sia vote

Crying foul, Anwar disputes GE13 results

Posted: 05 May 2013 04:36 AM PDT

Syed Jaymal Zahiid, TMI

Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said he will not accept the Election 2013 result, accusing the Elections Commission (EC) of rigging the polls to give Barisan Nasional (BN) victory.

As results streamed in, the PKR de facto leader said Pakatan Rakyat will not recognise the legitimacy of the outcome, claiming that several hotly-contested seats were marred by allegations of widespread fraud.

"As of now we are not accepting the results," the visibly upset Anwar told a press conference packed with supporters, local and international pressmen.

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We’ve won, claims Anwar

Posted: 04 May 2013 11:33 PM PDT

Anwar Ibrahim asks Umno and the Election Commission to accept the people's decision.

(FMT) - Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim claimed that Pakatan Rakyat has won the 13th general election.

"Pakatan has won. We urge Umno and the Election Commission [EC] not to attempt to hijack the results," said Anwar on his microblogging site, Twitter at about 7pm.

An aide of Anwar said that the Twitter message was not the job of hackers and it came from Anwar himself.

He said that when he contacted Anwar the opposition leader said that it was his genuine Twitter message.

Later, the Prime Minister's Office stressed the need to wait for official results.

"People decide elections, not politicians. We must all wait for the official election results to be announced by the EC," said PMO via Twitter.

‘Phantom voters employed by Pakatan’

Posted: 04 May 2013 07:53 PM PDT

BN cyberytroopers claim phantom voters were employed by Pakatan to discredit the caretaker government.

Lisa J. Ariffin, FMT

Barisan Nasional cybertroopers are claiming Pakatan Rakyat had employed phantom voters to discredit the caretaker government.

This claim comes following numerous reports by Pakatan observers that foreigners – mostly from Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal – were seen queing up at polling stations across the country to cast votes.

However, several pro-BN blogs have claimed they have evidence that the foreigners were employed by Pakatan themselves to be used to discredit BN.

They also said that reports have been filed at the Election Commission (EC) and claimed the issue would be addressesed during the EC's press conference later this evening.

"Our parties have discovered PKR's modus operandi in Kota Kemuning, Shah Alam and Pantai Dalam not too long ago. PKR had employed these foreigners, gave them ICs, sent them to polling stations and pretended to be caught to give them (PKR) credit," blogger Afiq KLTown said on his Facebook page today.

"The opposition are all desperate and cannot accept the fact that they will lose, and therefore had resorted to create this cheap propaganda," he added.

He however did not explain how PKR could give ICs to the foreigners when the National Registration Department was under the purview of the BN-controlled federal government.

Controversial blogger Papagomo further claimed that two Bagladeshi nationals had been detained by the police after admitting that they had received RM250 each from PKR to manipulate votes.

"Three Malaysians were detained with two Bangladeshi's in Lembah Pantai today in suspicion of creating chaos," Papagomo said.

"The suspects are believed to have been trying to manipulate the election today by claiming the Bangladeshi's were voting on behalf of BN," he added.

It was reported earlier today that a suspicious voter from Sabah was questioned by Pakatan Rakyat workers in Pandan, Selangor, when he attempted to claim money at their booth after voting.

Pandan PKR candidate Rafizi Ramli told reporters that the voter could not sing national anthem Negaraku, and could not recall the address stated on his IC.

The man then claimed to have voted for PKR, and the 'Rocket' DAP as well, which had fielded its candidate for the Teratai state assembly seat there.

Rival groups scuffle in Air Puteh

Posted: 04 May 2013 06:41 PM PDT

A '1Malaysia' group member has been detained by the police following a scuffle with DAP supporters.

(FMT) - Rival groups from Pakatan Rakyat and Barisan Nasional were embroiled in a scuffle outside a polling station this afternoon.

The incident took place outside the Kong Min Chinese, Air Itam, Penang school at 3pm.

"A group of motorcyclists wearing 1Malaysia T-shirts confronted the DAP supporters here," said an eyewitness.

Following that, an argument ensued and this turned into a fight with both groups tradings punches.

Some onlookers joined the fight and assaulted the "1Malaysia" group as they fled the scene.

The police have detained a member of the "1Malaysia" group who had sustained minor injuries.

Though the fracas was a small one, it caused a major traffic jam in the area.

Incumbent Wong Hon Wai of the DAP is facing a straight fight with Gerakan's Loo Jieh Sheng for this state seat.

Kedah police identify group planning to cause disturbance at 15 polling centres

Posted: 04 May 2013 05:48 PM PDT

(The Star) - Kedah police have identified several individuals planning to cause disturbances at 15 tallying centres in the state.

Kedah police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Ahmad Ibrahim said also being put under close security are several government department buildings including the state administrative building Wisma Darulaman.

"We receive information that certain groups planned to stage gatherings at tallying centres with the intention to cause disturbance.

"We also received information concerning text messages circulating among these groups calling for the gathering," he said in a press conference on Sunday.

He said police would take action on the illegal gatherers under Section 141 of the Penal Code.

"We will give them warning, but if they refuse to disperse, we will take action on them," he said.

Anwar’s politicisation of ‘fraud’

Posted: 04 May 2013 04:53 PM PDT

Anwar and the Pakatan have built their campaign upon the perception that the electoral system is rigged in favour of the incumbent.

Nile Bowie, FMT

There is no doubt that social-media commentators will not take kindly to the message of this article. Regardless of our political persuasions, those in the electorate should not abandon objectivity when assessing the claims of political orators on both sides of the divide.

According to recent polling evaluations conducted by the Merdeka Center, the country is nearly spilt down the middle with respect to May 5th's decision; the result is too close to call for anyone to make a definitive conclusion.

Therefore, some would call Anwar Ibrahim's recent assertion that only 'massive fraud' would prevent his victory, to be deeply disingenuous and politically irresponsible.

This statement presupposes that any election result that yields anything other than Anwar's victory is: invalid, illegitimate, and fraud.

This and other statements made by the opposition leader alienate anyone who votes for Barisan Nasional (nearly half the country, according to independent polls).

For a man who has spoken at length to foreign press about turning Malaysian into a 'mature democracy', such a scathing statement utterly fails to communicate these aspirations by demonstrating his willingness to politicise hearsay and disregard polls that claim Barisan has about the same level of support that he enjoys.

Anwar and the Pakatan have built their campaign upon the perception that the electoral system is rigged in favour of the incumbent, and in doing that, speculation on opposition news portals has become unquestionable truth for many who get their news through social media.

Momentary hysteria ensued following recent allegations that the Election Commissions' indelible ink can be washed off, which was used allege that BN would cheat its way into power by allowing people to submit multiple ballots.

Manager mistaken for phantom voter assaulted

Posted: 04 May 2013 04:47 PM PDT

(The Sun) - A policewoman's husband was beaten up by a group of men at a voting centre at Rawang after being mistaken for a phantom voter this morning.

Tajudeen N. Anver Bacha, 49-year-old manager who is a Malaysian was walking towards a voting centre at Batu 17, Rawang when he was blocked by the men were loitering in the vicinity.

They accused him of being a Bangladeshi before ordering him to leave. When he tried to explain he was a local, the assaults began.

"There were about 20 or 30 of them.They were violent and attacked me from behind. I was kicked and stopped from voting by the men. They also snatched an elections slip with my voting details I printed out." Tajudeen told theSun at noon.

The victim whose wife is a police officer at Bukit Aman lodged a police report at the Rawang police station soon after the assault.

Deputy Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar in a press conference at Bukit Aman at noon said police will not tolerate such actions and will look for the assailants.

Khalid was asked on allegations of phantom voters who arrived in buses at Kulai, Johor this morning who Johor police later clarified were Rela members reporting for duty, he said if the Kulai police chief had said they are Rela members then it should be accepted by the complainants.

"We want to make it clear that we are not going to protect or defend any party for wrongdoings during the voting process. We have no reason to lie, if we find they are not phantom voters then that is our findings.

"Anyone with information of Bangladeshis or other foreigners arriving in flights and buses should lodge a report with the police and we will take necessary action. Do not take the law in your own hands.

"How can you tell someone is a foreigner in Malaysia when we live in a multi-racial country," he said.

Pakatan in Putrajaya: Taib, Dr M in dock?

Posted: 04 May 2013 01:04 PM PDT

Losing the 13th general election will be akin to opening the Pandora boxes owned by Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Taib Mahmud, Najib Tun Razak and his wife Rosmah.

Awang Abdillah, FMT

The 13th general election is being turned into the toughest, ugliest and dirtiest election ever in the history of Malaysian politics, mainly due to the incumbent government's unwillingness to accept defeat.

But it is not so much the defeat itself that Barisan Nasional fears but rather the consequences of a defeat.

So much is at stake for Taib Mahmud and his Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) if Umno-BN loses this general election.

Firstly, losing the polls will mean surrendering the executive power in the government. This means the loss of opportunities to continue enriching themselves and squandering more of the nation's wealth.

Secondly the exposure of all their misdeeds by the new government backdated to the year 1981 until today.

And lastly the retributions they will get from the law.

Hence the phobia of these three realities compel the Umno elites to plan all kinds of strategies to stop the opposition from winning in the forthcoming election.

The Umno elites are desperate to keep all their ill-gotten riches in secrecy and, away from public knowledge.

These filthy rich Malaysians are the nation's unsung billionaires. These crooks forget that whatever one does has a tag attached or associated with it.

As all these riches are mostly obtained by corrupt and unlawful means, their wealth is associated with evilness and they cannot escape the consequences of keeping, owning or spending them.

Keeping these stolen riches is akin to owning a Pandora box and losing this 13th GE will be akin to opening the box.

Ink not so indelible after all

Posted: 04 May 2013 12:49 PM PDT

(FMT) - A reader told FMT that he washed away the indelible ink on his finger by using toothpaste.

A reader today told FMT that he managed to wash away the indelible ink put on his finger by voting officers this morning just after one hour upon casting his votes.

"All I did was to wash my finger with toothpaste. Although there are small signs of ink around my fingernail, by large, I managed to remove the ink," he said.

He also provided FMT with a photo of his ink-free finger.

Just like this reader, there are other voters who have taken to the social media to state that they too have successfully removed the ink from their fingers.

A voter named Goh (photo) from Likas, Sabah, also showed off his "almost clean" finger just minutes after voting at SJK Ching Hwa Likas in Kampung Air KK.

FMT journalist K Pragalath is another voter who managed to wash away the ink.

"I washed my left index finger half an hour after polling with a dish washing detergent. Ninety percent of my finger is clean," he said [see photo below].

Final push in Malaysia elections

Posted: 04 May 2013 09:32 AM PDT

(The China Post) - A survey released by polling house Merdeka Center predicted Najib's Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition could win 85 parliamentary seats, while a three-party opposition alliance led by Anwar Ibrahim will take 89 seats. It said 46 seats were too close to call while two seats will go to smaller parties.

Malaysian politicians made a final campaign push as an independent survey showed Prime Minister Najib Razak's long-ruling coalition running neck and neck with the opposition alliance ahead of Sunday's general election.

A survey released by polling house Merdeka Center predicted Najib's Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition could win 85 parliamentary seats, while a three-party opposition alliance led by Anwar Ibrahim will take 89 seats. It said 46 seats were too close to call while two seats will go to smaller parties.

Anwar said only fraud can stop his Malaysian opposition from scoring a historic election win as the rival sides launched a last-ditch campaign blitz Saturday.

Sunday's elections are the first in the country's 56 years of independence in which the only government Malaysia has known faces possible defeat.

The uncertainty has given rise to a bitter campaign, with Najib warning of chaos and ethnic strife under the opposition, which has countered with numerous allegations of government vote fraud.

Anwar set the stage for a possibly destabilizing challenge to the results, accusing the Barisan regime of cheating to thwart what he called a "democratic revolution."

"We have advised our supporters to remain calm, not to be provoked, not to take the law into their own hands, support the process," Anwar told AFP in an interview in his home seat in the state of Penang.

GE13: Husam's mother passes away just before polling day

Posted: 04 May 2013 09:20 AM PDT

(The Star) - PAS vice-president Datuk Husan Musa's mother Salma Idris has just passed away a day before the election.

A report on Harakah daily's website, stated that Husan's mother would have her solat jenazah (prayer for the departed) after the Asar prayers at the Masjid Kota, in Salor, Kota Bharu, Kelantan.

Husan, who is PAS' candidate in Putrajaya, is also contesting for the state seat in Salor, where he is the incumbent.

"Pemergian Bonda memilukan saya, namun takdir ini saya anggap pembuka kemenangan saya dan Rakyat Malaysia yang dahagakan Malaysia Baru yang Bersih, Adil & Berjiwa Rakyat," posted Husam, on his Facebook page.

This is translated as "Though I grieve my mother's passing, I accept this as the opening to victory for me and the Rakyat who thirst for a new Malaysia that is clean, fair, and in line with the will of the people"

On the eve of an election, the Malaysian web comes under attack

Posted: 04 May 2013 09:12 AM PDT

(The Verge) - Access suspects the ruling party is instituting the blocks using deep packet inspection, with the assistance of the (supposedly independent) ISPs.

Opposition party websites and Facebook pages are falling to DDoS and web censorship

Malaysia holds its national election this Sunday, pitting the ruling National Front party against an unusually strong People's Alliance coalition in what observers are calling the most closely contested race in the nation's history. But as citizens head to the polls, the country has seen a flood of ISP blocks and DDoS actions against opposition sites and independent media.

The most visible actions are DDoS attacks, a technique that floods sites with bogus traffic, making them inaccessible to normal users. It's a technique often aimed at opposition parties in the days leading up to an election. DDoS mitigation service Cloudflare told The Verge it has seen several news organization come under attack in the past week, and that the vast majority of the actions have been Layer 7 attacks originating from within the country. It strongly suggests that whoever's behind the attack is local.

OPPOSITION PARTY FACEBOOK PAGES WERE ALSO TARGETED BY THE BLOCKS

Alongside the denial-of-service attacks, Malaysian ISPs have instituted a more sophisticated kind of web censorship. An Access Now report detailed five Malaysian ISPs that had begun blocking domains, simply refusing to serve requests made to certain web addresses. After early complaints, ISPs also blocked specific content within those domains that was critical of the standing regime.

Malaysians prepare to head to polls

Posted: 04 May 2013 09:10 AM PDT

(Al Jazeera) - Malaysians are set to cast ballots in their first election in history with a change of government at stake, as a decades-old leadership battles to hold off an opposition pledging sweeping reform.

Voting gets under way at 8:00am [0000 GMT] on Sunday with tensions high after a bitter campaign in the multi-ethnic country marked by charges of election fraud, divisive racial rhetoric and widespread violence.

Malaysians have awaited the vote since 2008 polls saw a newly united opposition make unprecedented gains against the
once-invincible coalition that has had a lock on power since independence in 1957.

The coalition dominated by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and led by premier Najib Razak has been expected to edge the Pakatan Rakyat (People's Pact) alliance captained by former UMNO member, Anwar Ibrahim.

But recent opinion polls have indicated the race was too close to predict.

Pakatan has capitalised on anger over corruption, authoritarianism and controversial policies that favour majority ethnic Malays, while wooing minorities and a younger generation exposed to alternative views found online.

Pakatan pledges sweeping reform, including an end to cronyism and corruption that it says sustains a powerful elite.

'We will win'

The opposition has set the stage for a possibly disputed result with numerous accusations of Barisan electoral fraud.

These include an alleged scheme to fly tens of thousands of people of "dubious" and possibly foreign origin to key constituencies to sway results.

The government claims the flights were part of a voter-turnout drive.

Indelible ink applied to voters' fingers to prevent multiple voting - touted by Najib as a safeguard against fraud - also was found to wash off.

"Unless there's a major massive fraud tomorrow... we will win," Anwar told the AFP news agency on Saturday.

Anwar, a former deputy premier ousted in a 1998 power struggle and jailed six years on sex charges widely viewed as trumped up, has drawn festival crowds in the tens of thousands on the stump.

But it remains to be seen whether Malaysians will vote out the only government they have ever known, and Najib has played on fears for stability while pledging continued solid economic growth.

His ethnic Malay-dominated regime retains powerful advantages, including control of traditional media and an electoral landscape critics say is biased.

Najib also has exploited racial and religious insecurities by claiming a conservative Islamic party within Pakatan would implement sharia law.

The occasionally fractious opposition, which also includes Anwar's multi-racial party and a secular one dominated by minority ethnic Chinese, condemns such rhetoric as dangerous racial fear-mongering.

Campaigning has been marred by hundreds of reports of violence, intimidation, arson and two small explosions, although no deaths have been reported.

Polling stations close at 5:00pm [0900 GMT] with results expected to begin rolling out within hours.

Listen at: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/05/20135422192937370.html

BN faces fight of its life in M’sia vote

Posted: 04 May 2013 09:09 AM PDT

(Today Online) - Malaysians vote today in an election that could weaken or even end the rule of one of the world's longest-lived coalitions, which faces a stiff challenge from an opposition pledging to clean up politics and end race-based policies.

Led by former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim, the opposition is aiming to build on startling electoral gains in 2008, when the Barisan Nasional (BN), or National Front, ruling coalition lost its customary two-thirds parliamentary majority.

The historic result signaled a breakdown in traditional politics as minority ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians, as well as many majority Malays, rejected the National Front's brand of race-based patronage that has ensured stability in the Southeast Asian nation but led to corruption and widening inequality.

Under Prime Minister Najib Razak, the blue-blood son of a former leader, the coalition has tried to win over a growing middle class with social reforms and secure traditional voters with a US$2.6 billion (S$3.2 billion) deluge of cash handouts to poor families.

He can point to robust growth of 5.6 per cent last year as evidence that his Economic Transformation Program to double incomes by 2020 is bearing fruit, while warning that the untested three-party opposition would spark economic ruin.

Najib, who is personally more popular than his party, has had some success in steadying the ship since he was installed as head of the dominant United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in 2009. Formidable advantages such as the coalition's control of mainstream media, its deep pockets and a skewed electoral system make it the clear favourite.

But opinion polls suggest a tightening race that could further reduce the coalition's majority and lead the opposition to dispute the result over claims of election fraud.

The opposition alliance has been buoyed by unusually large, enthusiastic turnouts at campaign rallies in recent days. It says its "X factor" may be a surge in young, first-time voters who are more likely to be attracted to its call for change after 56 years of rule by the BN coalition.

Kredit: www.malaysia-today.net

Ahad, 5 Mei 2013

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