In our previous article we have mentioned the challenges the Election Commission is facing on the fraud accusation, where all that for a fact are just plain strategy by an interested group of politicians.

Before we dig deeper into tactics, let’s relate the issue of Indelible Ink and how the Election Commission have come to use it for the first time in our recent Malaysia 13th General Election.

In 2011, The Election Commission announced that they were planning to implement new Biometric Voter Identification System that will facilitate voter registration at polling stations.

This they say will make sure voters who comes to vote on polling day will have to go thru a fast 3-Tier Authentication Process that will require the Digital Thumb Print and the information in Mykad matches and in additional to that, the name of the voter is listed at the locality.

Using this system, the Election Commission will also be able to detect phantom voters if they are any.

One of many fanatic supporters of Anwar Ibrahim made a statement in a blog dated 27th July 2011;

“Apa pun, macam yang aku dah tulis banyak kali, tak kira la apa sistem pun yang SPR pakai aku yakin sistem tu boleh dimanipulasi untuk menguntungkan Umno BN. Aku tetap akan prejudis selagi anggota SPR tak mendapat kepercayaan awam macam yang dikehendaki oleh Perlembagaan.” – Click here for source of the blog.

The above statement displayed two things, that this person has been subconsciously trained to be a fanatic and has been (in that context) Indoctrinated with ideas of anti-establishment. Even though not all are likely to fall into this ‘zone’, nonetheless a concerning number of the Y-generations have already displayed this identical behavior.

Now let us study this basic scenario. The Election Commission had proposed a safe and an advanced technology to facilitate the electoral process on polling day.

The technology’s function and mechanism is likely familiar enough to the masses to be implemented in the election with fewer objections. But BERSIH lead by Ambiga staged a protest and with so much interest they (she) insisted that we use the Famous Indelible Ink on polling day. (famous in India but new to us).

The Government offered and provided a platform call “Jawatankuasa Khas Parlimen – Berhubung Penambahbaikan Pilihanraya” where Opposition leaders are included in this special council to find consensus on any issues pertaining to the election system including the proposal to exercise the Famous Indelible Ink, and that was what the council decided after much debate and discussion. The resolution was gazette as an enforced regulation on February 2012.

“Bagaimanapun, SPR ambil tindakan atas syor Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas Parlimen (Berhubung Penambahbaikan Pilihan Raya) untuk gunakan dakwat kekal ini dicalit pada jari pengundi sebelum kertas undi dikeluarkan” – The Election Commission Chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Yusof was quoted saying this on February 2013.

Here we finally understood that the Election Commission was mandated to implement the Ink. And the Government of Malaysia is not involved in making that decision. The mandate was given as a resolute of the Jawatankuasa Khas Parlimen, the people who proposed the use of the Ink are the Opposition themselves, and now there are creating issues which we can utterly presumed they themselves knows the corners.

– More to come. Tactics exercised by the interested group of politicians.