
Biology student Tan Kai Ren, 22, said he did not understand how it was possible for a total stranger to object to his registration on the electoral roll.
“It is a waste of time coming here and spending less than a minute explaining my home address at the hearing,” he said
“I was asked meaningless questions about the address on my identity card – whose house it was, what I am doing in the house and what I am studying,” he said at the EC office here.
Tan said that after the questioning, the EC officer rejected the objection filed against him today because the objector, Hairul Othman was not present.

Another college student, Hew Jun Neng said he underwent the same experience at the EC office today.
“I registered sometime in September last year and received a letter early this year informing me that my registration could not be processed because my home address could not be found,” he said.
At the hearing, Hew said, all the EC officers asked of him was whether he knew where the voting areas in his neighbourhood were located. The affair took under a minute to conclude, he added.
Hew said he was puzzled by the need to publish the names of newly registered voters under the new system and added, “This can be open to abuse. People can use the system to object if they think the registration is dubious.”

Poh Pang Min and Teo Sin Huei were two other voters who had trouble with their registrations when they moved from their old constituency to another in Sepang.
They said they both received letters informing them that their new addresses were unknown.
Teo said that during the objection hearing, the EC officer asked her objector if she had known that Teo’s address was in dispute.
“My objector said she knew where I stayed and even the cars I owned. I find it creepy that a stranger had come to my house and taken pictures,” Teo said.
Bersih 2.0 steering committee member Jay Jay Denis, who was present as an observer at the hearing, said it was illogical to cite “unknown address” as the reason for the objections.
“If their addresses are unknown, how then did the EC manage to send them letters telling them to come to its office?
He also claimed that three out of five objectors on the new voter registration system were members of political parties.
“Are the political parties in cahoots with the EC?” Jay Jay asked.
Last Wednesday, Bersih 2.0 chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah claimed that certain parties were trying to prevent new voters from registering ahead of the 14th general election and that the Elections (Registration of Electors) Regulations 2002 were being abused.
She said a Bersih 2.0 monitoring team had the Monday before witnessed several dubious filings of objections by a group apparently working under the direction of an “agency”.
“They witnessed a suspicious looking group filing objections according to instructions given by an agency.”
Maria said once an objection was filed against a newly registered voter, the voter would be summoned to the EC office for an inquiry where the voter had to show proof that he or she was a legitimate voter.
The person who filed the objection is obliged to compensate the new voter RM100 for the trouble if the registration was found to be genuine.
Human rights activist Ivy Josiah, who was at the scene with the Bersih team, had her phone snatched away by a man when she attempted to take pictures at the hearings.
Due to the events last Monday, police were stationed at the EC office today to monitor the objection hearings.
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