EC denies claims dead man's name included in voters' list

PUTRAJAYA: The Election Commission (EC) has denied allegations that a dead man's name which had previously been taken out of the voters' list, has been put back in for the coming 14th general election (GE14).
Commenting on information spread on the social media on the late MM Narayanan Nair T. Narayanan Nair who died in 2003, EC chairman Tan Sri Mohd Hashim Abdullah said the EC conducted an immediate check on the matter.
"The EC found that the name had never been taken out, and remained in the voters' list since it was registered in 1994.
"As such, the claims by certain quarters that the dead man's name had been taken out and now re-inserted into the voters' list with the coming GE14 is not true," he said in a statement here today.
Mohd Hashim was speaking following a statement by the National Registration Department (NRD) today on the spread of the information on the late MM Narayanan Nair who is still in the voters' list for GE14.
According to the NRD, it had contacted the family of the late MM Narayanan to clarify the matter and obtained positive response from them.
Mohd Hashim said the EC would take immediate action to delete his name from the voters' list for GE14.
"The EC stresses that it cannot simply delete a voter's name without confirmation of death by the NRD," he said. — Bernama