Group warns of action against phantoms on polling day
“We are ready for you,” Haris told Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the video message. “We, many of us, are ready to die. Are you ready to die?”
Clara Chooi, TMI
An activist movement has warned foreigners and phantom voters away from polling stations during Election 2013, saying they will be dealt with accordingly if they dared to sneak in their votes.
Anything But Umno (ABU), an opposition-friendly polls watchdog group, said it will be deploying special squads on polling day to ensure no phantom voter, foreigner or fake IC holder would dare loiter near polling stations.
“Please take this warning seriously. On polling day, ABU will be patrolling all stations and will deal with all foreigner who intend to defy this warning,” ABU leader Haris Ibrahim said in the group’s polls message on video-sharing site YouTube yesterday.
“Please. I emphasise again – take this warning seriously.”
The lawyer-turned-activist also urged Malaysians to assist ABU in its efforts to prevent electoral fraud by casting their ballots early on polling day.
He explained that voters could help ABU’s squads by staying near the polling stations after they have cast their ballots and even accompany the ballot boxes when they are being sent to the various tallying centres nationwide.
“Stay and defend the electoral process,” he appealed.
In the group’s strongest warning yet to possible troublemakers, Haris (picture) declared that ABU members were even “willing to die” to prevent electoral fraud in Election 2013.
The activist claimed of plots by the Najib team on polling day but said his team of monitors would be ready to fight them.
“We are ready for you,” Haris told Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the video message.
“We, many of us, are ready to die. Are you ready to die?”
The activist added that ABU’s members were willing to “go to any length and at all cost” to ensure that the polls process would not be tampered with by outsiders.
Haris also told Pakatan Rakyat (PR) parties not to squabble over seat distribution, reminding its leaders that many of their supporters would be fighting tooth and nail to ensure that the ruling Barisan Nasonal (BN) falls from Putrajaya in Election 2013.
He said much of PR’s support was “by default” and not out of love for the pact’s three parties but due to a profound hatred towards BN and its lynchpin Umno, which he claimed have “cheated and robbed” Malaysians for years.
To non-PR parties contesting against BN, Haris urged their candidates not to betray the votes given to them by the electorate by jumping ship to the ruling pact once they are voted into their seats.
He said it was likely that these representatives would later be seduced with lucrative offers to jump ship to BN, but appealed that they reject them or face the consequences later.
The activist did not specify what these consequences were but said in the warning that ABU’s agents would hunt them down if they did not flee the country after accepting the BN’s offers.
“Do not succumb (to the offers) but if you do, take this advice – take what you will and leave the country.
“If you do not leave, trust me… we will hunt you down and we will ensure that in the shortest possible time, a by-election will be held to fill up the vacancy that would have been caused.
“Take this warning seriously,” he said.
