TAPAH
Dear all,
True story
from my close friend Subra.
Subra , Dato Saravanan ( current Deputy
Minister for FT) and myself
are close friends those days. Since Saravanan
join MIC politics Subra
and myself keep a distance from
him.
Subra volunteer himself to support Vasantha Kumar (PKR) in this
GE13.
I was at Tapah helping out PKR for the candidate Vasanta
Kumar
(detained 18 months under ISA in Nov 2007 for being part of
Hindraf)
throughout the day on 5th May. After 5pm once the gate was
closed we
pack up and went for a meal then to the Merdeka hall where the
final
countdown was.
Around 830pm, Vasanta Kumar came out to the
crowd and told that
officially PKR won (based on form 14) but SPR don't
want to release
the news. Suddenly SPR said that few more boxes has
not reached at
10pm.... 10pm...
Big tussle happened in the Merdeka
Hall and Vasanta Kumar was thrown
out of the hall by police and FRU.
All the "paca" was also pushed out
and beaten (including women) and
together with Vasanta were also
thrown out.
This reminds me of how
the Perak speaker was thrown out during the
Perak State
robbery.
Finally we waited and waited...... and as we expected.... BN
was
declared as winner.... at 01:30am..
This is the country who
claims practices democracy and clean & fair
election.... where it
should be termed as DEMO-CRAZY...
I assume this is how BN won most of
the seats in parliament.... with
bunch of gangsters, bullies, monkeys...
sitting in the noble seats of
the DEWAN.....
In fact.. I am not sure
of what to do now.... tears after tears for my
beloved country as this
country is being raped ever after since
Mahathir took over in 80s and they
never stop till today.
I am torn apart.... wonder how LKS, LGE, KS,
DSAI and all the fighters
of the country lived till today. They had
been harassed and ripped
off their rights including ours.... My hats off
for these guys who
sacrificed their lot for our beloved Malaysia which is
US....
May god bless all these people who fought for us and still
fighting
till their last blood...
May god bless Malaysia
Best
regs
RESULTS BY POPULAR VOTES
Pakatan 5557993 total votes
(50.39%)
Barisan 5137133 total votes (46.57%)
Others 167128
(1.52%)
Spoilt 168103 (1.52%)
TOTAL VOTERS in PRU13: 11030357
(100%)
Pakatan obtained 420,860 more votes than Barisan, a margin of
3.82%
over Barisan.
RESULTS BY PARLIAMENTARY SEATS
Pakatan 89
(40.09%)
Barisan 133 (59.91%)
TOTAL 222 (100%)
Pakatan obtained 50.39
per cent of the popular vote (a simple
majority) but won only about 40 per
cent of the parliamentary seats.
Barisan obtained 46.57 per cent of the
popular vote (substantially
less than a simple majority) but wound up with
close to 60 per cent of
the parliamentary seats!
Pakatan won the popular
vote easily by 420,860 votes, a margin of 3.82
per cent over Barisan.
By
comparison, even in one of the most controversial elections in
recent
memory – when George Bush Jr won (some would say stole) the US
Presidential
elections in 2000 despite losing the popular vote, the
difference in the
popular vote count between him and Al Gore was only
0.5 per cent in favour
of Gore. Bush ended up winning 50.5 per cent of
the electoral votes vs 49.5
per cent for Gore (electoral votes are
akin to parliament seats in the US).
So to put things in parallel:
Bush lost the popular vote by 0.5 per cent
and scraped through the
electoral college count by 1 per cent.
Barisan
lost the popular vote by 3.8 per cent (almost 8 times worse
than Bush) but
won Parliament by a whopping 20 per cent!
The popular vote is the purest
form of democracy and follows the
simplest formula: one man/woman equals
one vote. Majority wins.
While electoral districts are often apportioned
with the objective of
lessening the influence of heavily populated areas,
these are normally
done within constitutional limits which have been
established to avoid
gerrymandering by the ruling powers.
Malaysia’s
current apportionment of electoral districts makes a
mockery of
democracy.