KOTA KINABALU: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) yesterday urged the Election Commission (EC) to re-check thoroughly the list of voters in the current electoral rolls to ensure that the names of genuine voters registered before 2002 are still there.

PBS Secretary-General Datuk Radin Malleh said this was crucial as the general election was nearing.

He said the PBS bought CDs containing names of the electorate updated on July 31 last year but upon random checking found that some names known to the party had disappeared from the rolls.

“For example, the name of my wife, who is voting in the polling district of Mandalom in the Melalap State constituency, has disappeared from the updated rolls,” he said in a statement on Thursday.

Radin, who is the Melalap Assemblyman, said this could only be the tip of the iceberg.

He said this could also be due to the new system of registering voters all year round and displaying and gazetting the electoral rolls every three months.

As a result, time was not sufficient for voters to check the rolls.

The rolls were also being “disturbed” regularly and unnecessarily because of the regular display and gazetting, he said.

“In view of the imminent general elections, we hope the EC will re-check thoroughly the list of voters so as not to deprive the genuine voters of their electoral right,” he said.