In the meantime, Bersih 2.0 chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah handed a memorandum seeking reforms in the electoral system to be implemented in the next general election (GE14).
EC head of corporate communication Mohd Sabri Abdullah accepted the memorandum on behalf of the commission.
However, when Maria pressed Sabri about when a meeting could be arranged with Hashim to discuss electoral reform, Sabri said he could not give her an answer.
Maria later told reporters that Bersih had written numerous times to meet with the EC but have yet to get a response from them.
“There are many issues that we want to speak to them about before the next general election but they have refused to see us,” she said, adding that Bersih would keep coming back to the EC’s office until they secured a meeting with the EC chairman.
“We will come back next week until we achieve our aim for electoral reform to be implemented before the general election,” Maria said.
Meanwhile, PKR vice-president and elections director Nurul Izzah Anwar said that Pakatan Harapan leaders will be exposing alleged fraud by the EC in the electoral system at a press conference tomorrow.
“We obtained information that hundreds of newly registered voters were taken out from the registration.
“In the Kapar constituency, 505 newly-registered voters’ names were ‘removed’,” she claimed, adding that it was an “insidious attempt” to deny the opposition victory in the coming general election.
Electoral roll CDs
Meanwhile, Amanah youth vice-chief Shazni Murni, who was present with Bersih said that they will hold a protest in front of the EC headquarters next Tuesday over the commission’s decision to stop distributing the supplementary electoral roll copies (Quarter 2017) to all political parties.
“The EC used to distribute CDs listing the names of new voter registration every quarter.
“Now they have stopped handing it out, and have even told us to check with places like the post office,” he said.
“How are we supposed to bring home the registered voters’ name list that is about a thousand pages thick?” he asked.
In a statement on April 29, EC secretary Abdul Ghani Salleh said that in a meeting on March 28, the EC agreed that copies of the supplementary electoral roll (both books and CDs) will no longer be distributed to political parties.
Ghani added that any party that wanted to check and put in their objections on the supplementary electoral roll during the exhibition period could do so by visiting the places gazetted for the display.