PETALING JAYA: PKR's election fraud investigative team has received up to 237 complaints from the public over alleged GE13 irregularities.

The team, headed by PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli, has connected these reports to 25 Parliamentary seats that Pakatan Rakyat contested in and lost during the recent polls.

PKR strategic director and Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli.

"We are mapping the evidence. I will not jump in straight away and categorise it as fraud until I get the evidence," said Rafizi, who is also newly-elected Pandan MP.

According to Rafizi, the Hulu Selangor and Machang seats are also suspect, although no complaints regarding the two seats had been submitted yet.

He added that the 27 seats have been shortlisted based on four criteria - Having a victory margin of under 5%; a final result that did not tally with spoil votes, of which the number was larger than the margin of victory; a high number of postal and advanced votes that exceeded the normal' vote margin; where outright election fraud was alleged to have been committed.

Reports have not been made regarding two of the 27 shortlisted constituencies.

The Parliamentary seats in question are Bentong, Kuala Selangor, Baram, Sungai Besar, Pasir Gudang, Labis, Machang, Ketereh, Titiwangsa, Tebrau, Bagan Serai, Kota Marudu, Beaufort, Setiawangsa, Segamat, Ledang, Balik Pulau, Kulim Bandar Bahru, Pulai, Kuala Kangsar, Muar, Pendang, Hulu Selangor, Sabak Bernam, Merbok, Pensiangan and Saratok.

Rafizi said that 19 of these were PKR seats and were "hotly-contested" constituencies.

He said that another eight state assembly seats were also in question, but the party would not reveal them yet.

He added that the team had 67 volunteers - comprising mostly lawyers and accountants - to scrutinise the disputed numbers.

Rafizi said that PKR would also look into seats it had won, giving the example of Pandan where three election-related police reports had been filed.

PAS and DAP will also be roped in to help, he added.

Rafizi said once the evidence had been gathered, petitions would be filed with the Election Court and also submitted to Bersih's "People's Tribunal".

He added that PKR would also present witnesses who had lodged police reports on the alleged fraud.

With the gazetting of polls results expected this week, Rafizi estimated that PKR would file the election petitions by the end of May.

Complainants have a 21-day period to do so after its gazetting.

Article 118 of the Federal Constitution states that any quarter who disagrees with the election results can file a petition at the High Court.

Rafizi added that the whole process was not so much to challenge the disputed results, but to create a public "momentum" over alleged voter fraud.

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