Famous phantom voters

It seems we even have famous phantom voters these days. Well-known Malaysian blogger Rocky (Ahirudin Attan) is also a phantom voter, as he recently discovered for himself after visiting the SPR website.

rocky's bru: Excuse me, WTF registered me as a voter?

You may also want to check out my earlier postings about the SPR website and phantom voters.

Are you a phantom voter?

Blogger Dr. Prince recently discovered that he is a registered voter in Kedah, even though he has never registered, and never voted before.

You can check your own voter status at the Election Commission (Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya, or SPR) website. Who knows, you may have "voted" during the last election even though you have not registered. And I'm guessing you "voted" for BN!

Note that the SPR website doesn't use any secure connections (e.g. SSL). So I would not recommend querying your data if you're using a public Internet connection (e.g. cybercafe, free wi-fi locations, etc). The SPR pages list quite a bit of personal information, thus creating a potential for identity theft.

It seems that the EC isn't too concerned about about serving up voter registration info over the Net on unencryted pages.

On a related note, check out the Wikipedia section on Electoral fraud.