A group trained to disrupt polling day - Tunku Abdul Aziz

Former DAP vice chairman Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim today revealed that special training was conducted by an election watchdog to create chaos during polling day.

Claiming that he was reliably informed, Tunku Abdul Aziz revealed that a group of people was trained by Tindak Malaysia to disrupt the process by challenging the Election Commission's (EC) presiding officer or Ketua Tempat Mengundi (KTM), a step he said was meant to tarnish the EC.

“They were trained to create chaos and dissatisfaction by raising repeated protests at the polling station, no matter how frivolous and unreasonable, so as to cause others waiting in the queue to be unhappy with the EC," Tunku Aziz told a press conference

“It is also designed to delay the entire voting process thereby causing long queues and congestion at certain designated polling stations.”

Tunku Aziz said the plan is to cast a negative perception and aspersions and finally to stir public outrage against the EC and thus bring it into disrepute.

A quick check by The Mole at Tindak Malaysia's official Facebook and Twitter pages and forum showed that the NGO is working closely with the Bersih movement to pressure the EC and the government.

Tunku Aziz later revealed that one particular aspect of the training session was related to teaching voters how to guard the secrecy of their votes.

“They were trained, encouraged and urged to demand for the randomisation of their ballot papers in order to guarantee secrecy of their votes," he said.

“They are encouraged to be vocal and challenge the election clerks on duty as well as (accuse) the KTM of committing an electoral offence if they refuse to issue a random ballot to the voter.

“The polling agent on duty has also been trained to support such a ‘request’ by the voter where he will support the demand and object to the KTM in rejecting such a request. This will help pressure the KTM,” he said further.

Previously, it was reported that there was a letter, believed sent by the PKR deputy president's office to a few of the party's officers, providing strategies on how to create chaos at polling stations.

The letter, which was published by blog Gelagat Anwar, listed several steps to prevent Barisan Nasional from keeping its hold on the government, including how to create negative public perception against the EC.

“Fifty young lawyers, who have been mandated to be the party’s polling agents, were instructed to keep on protesting on any issue as an attempt to pressurise the EC,” the blogger wrote.

The letter also stated a few hot parliamentary seats could trigger the chaos, including Gombak, Lembah Pantai, Permatang Pauh, Setiawangsa and Wangsa Maju.

Blogger Syed Akbar Ali wrote in his blog OutSyed The Box that some voters had been told to bring their own ballpoint pens and rulers without really knowing why.

He also claimed there was information that churches are telling their congregations about voting procedures, which he thought quite out of the ordinary.

“Why do the Churches wish to play the role of self appointed election agents? And please do not poison the minds of your congregations to bring their own ballpoint pens or rulers," he wrote.

“So do not let your hatred for a people of a different religion force you to commit injustices or worse to commit crimes.  Everyone has one vote only. So vote wisely."