A Black Mark in the Election

The Election Commission has cancelled the use of indelible ink for this general election, citing public order and security issues.

The stunning announcement was made at a press conference in Putrajaya this afternoon - four days before polling.

EC chairperson Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman said the commission was obliged to make a "firm and final decision to ensure the smooth conduct of the 12th general election".

-Malaysiakini, March 04

What the fuck!? Did i read it correctly? The use of indelible ink in the election will cause public disorder and security issues?

WHAT THE FUCK!!!?

How could those innocent black inks cause public unrest!? What kind of lame-ass excuse is that? And that Abdul Rashid guy actually has the guts to say this:

"Following legal advice and looking at the issue of public order and security, the EC... has decided not... to introduce the use of indelible ink," he said.

Legal advice? Who's legal advice? Your slave master, BN's?

And these final statements are just... just... oh crap, I'm speechless. Read:

"The EC views these issues seriously, as the election process and public order and security cannot be compromised," he added. "The EC deeply regrets its decision." (yeah right, who the hell do you think you're kidding?)

Abdul Rashid said the use of indelible ink would not be effective as the country's constitution allows those who refuse to have their fingernail marked with the ink to still be issued with a ballot. (it was the EC itself who first proposed that the marking should be made optional. If you don't want what you said to happen, then just make it fucking compulsory you moron!)

He added that the use of the indelible ink could infringe the constitutional right of a voter to cast his vote, especially if the commission tries to bar someone from voting for having an ink marked in his finger.(HUH!!? WHAT THE... oh, never mind)

"From a practical point of view, the issuance of a ballot paper to such a voter would render the EC's proposal meaningless and will not bring about a positive result, whilst having the potential to create misunderstanding as well as altercations and arguments at polling stations," he said. (from a practical point of view, I think you are a waste of space in the universe. Again, just make the whole damn ink-applying thing compulsory and this would not happen!)

He added that the Federal Constitution gives Malaysians the right to vote and a black mark on the fingernail should not bar people from exercising this right, he said. (oh, does that mean the Constitution also guarantees a person to vote multiple times? You have no fucking idea what the fuck you're fucking talking about, do you? Or maybe you're running out of idea on how to fool us into believing this whole hogwash?)

The loophole can only be removed with a constitutional amendment, which requires a vote by parliament, which has been dissolved for elections to take place. (wow, convenient)

Mr Rashid, you might want to consider to stop screwing your brain (if you actually have one) to come with these excuses and just hold a press conference to declare you are a BN crony and that the EC will do anything to secure a win for BN. Wait, hasn't he done that already?

When the EC first came out with using indelible ink as a prevention of phantom-voting, I'm not really a big fan. After all, why do we have to resort to using such third-world method when we could easily have gone digital; just register our MyKad when we vote to prevent multiple voting. But then again, looking at how easily this method can be tampered with by you-know-who, I thought to myself that the ink might not be such a bad idea after all.

Then the EC decided that the application of ink will be optional.

Optional? Why make it optional? On what authority does a voter have a right to refuse to be marked? Isn't the whole point of introducing the ink is to prevent phantom voting? If so, then why make it optional?

And now, this bullshit.

This is one of the things that shows how low democracy in our country has fallen. It has come to a point where the government thinks that it could say and do anything it wants and nobody would dare to oppose, and would just blindly accept it. I hope the international press is paying attention and reports this whole farce to the world. Let everyone know what a fucked-up government we have.

But this also shows us something; that BN has reached a level of insecurity of its political dominance, and it would do anything to win this GE, including advocating phantom-voting (like always) and making an ass out of the whole electoral system and the people. But it failed to realise that we are not that fucking dumb to fall for this. BN will pay, big time.

You can read the whole report in Malaysiakini, if you can stand the smell of shit.