Where had the 900+ voters allegedly deleted from the roll, gone?

Here’s an analysis of what happened to 900+ missing voters, as charged by PKR. (Sent by Cheah Kah Seng)
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[For all tables and data, please see:
http://malvu.blogspot.com/2008/08/were-900-voters-deleted-and-replaced-in.html ]
Were 900+ Voters Deleted and Replaced in Permatang Pauh?
The numbers are about right – 951 voters were deleted from Permatang Pauh and replaced by another 961 since the 12th GE. [...]

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The election is NOT finished yet!

It may come a a surprise that the election is not neccesarily finished yet: there are issues which need addressing. These issues if left unaddressed, will come back to haunt us in future elections. Some argue that since the results favour the disadvantaged Federal Opposition all is forgiven and forgotten. Well to quote the candidate [...]

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ANFREL & NIEI’s PC: M’sian election system desperately need overhaul!(UPDATED)

ANFREL(Asian Network for Free and Fair Elections) and NIEI(National Institute for Electoral Integrity) released their report on the just concluded by-election in Permatang Pauh where they called for overhaul of the entire election system. Their findings have added new angles to the election observations organised by MAFREL eg on ways to avoid phantom voters; on [...]

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Taking a look at post-election reports

After the official announcement of Anwar Ibrahim’s victory, Najib was quoted saying “This is his political base and the results reflected that there was no manipulation involved” in the NST article (27/08) entitled Najib: Voters have spoken. As expected, this would be the rhetoric of the ruling coalition if Anwar wins a bigger majority compared [...]

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Anwar won! (chart)

chart courtesy of malaysiakini.

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He is not dead!

A voter was found `dead’ by the SPR when he went to vote this morning. The mistake was said to be from the NRD-but the `dead’ voter prefered to make a police report at Seberang Jaya Police station. Such mistakes seems to constitute a pattern as voters across the 3 state constituencies were found to [...]

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Anwar won!Official results in

According to progressive declaration of results from Tuanku Bainun College -the vote accumulation centre for the Permatang Pauh by-election Anwar has won the election with only the extent of majority being uncertain. Anwar lead in almost all voting streams announced so far -except in a few locations in Seberang Jaya-the state constituency of his opponent [...]

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4 including MP Gobalakrisnan & 2 sons arrested for stopping phantom voters (Updated)

The poll today ended with a dramatic twist: 4 persons were held for investigation into the stopping of 5 buses said to be ferrying phantom voters from Melaka. Those held included MP for Bagan Serai N Gobalakrisna & 2 sons. The 4th person is a body guard of the MP. The shocking aspect was : [...]

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Polling Day Blog

7.30am Volunteers started to go to each of the 28 polling centres. All told we signed up about 200 volunteers due to last minute rush to sign up.
9.00am I started to check polling centres in Seberang Jaya.
SK Tok Kandu : All 3 volunteers were allowed into the voting station/class room. Well done to KTM there. [...]

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Whole Penisular road-blocked due to a by-election-justified?

From various reports (eg www.malaysiakini.com ) the police will set up road blocks from as far as KL  to stop people to engage in `election tourism’ to Permatang Pauh tomorrow. Is it justified-where so many people will be inconvenienced? It may reflect a certain strategy of BN to keep the ground reality at Permatang  Pauh [...]

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