KUALA LUMPUR: The government has been urged to enforce existing laws that require MyKad holders to update their residential addresses, to help the Election Commission (EC) produce a cleaner, more accurate and relevant electoral roll.
Former EC chairman Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman backed a proposal to empower the commission to update voters’ polling addresses based on their MyKad details, but said that the move would be pointless unless the root of the problem – inaccurate addresses – is fixed first.
His comments echo concerns raised by EC commissioner Zoe Randhawa, who cited cases where voters were still registered at residential blocks demolished decades ago, distorting the true representation of constituencies.