Najib as usual denies BN link to phantom voter claims

Ana Ghoib Syeikh Malaya 10:50 PG
KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 — As reports of alleged “phantom voters” continue to stream in across the Internet, Datuk Seri Najib Razak moved to deny Barisan Nasional’s (BN) involvement in the allegations.
The caretaker prime minister (picture), who is leading the ruling pact through its toughest election battle to date, insisted in a Twitter posting here that BN is committed to a fair election.
“The allegations of friendly parties to BN bringing in foreign workers to vote is totally untrue. We are committed to a fair election,” he wrote.
Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein also backed Najib’s defence, saying on his Twitter account that the allegations were “baseless”.
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But despite their denials, netizens are flooding the Internet with videos and photographs of alleged “phantoms” caught by concerned voters at polling centres nationwide.
“First hantu got caught! And he’s from Myanmar!” a netizen Richard See wrote on his Facebook page as a caption to a photograph of a man who had his MyKad checked by monitors at an unidentified polling station.