Vote-buying as practiced in Malaysia is often a double crime - firstly, in trying to influence the voter/s through giving cash or kind, or promising the same; secondly, it also involves abusing public funds usually by tapping illegally into government coffers ie, the people's fund. The public is robbed collectively when a politician abuses with impunity his/her position to steal public funds to buy votes and improve his/her sagging electoral appeal.
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The EC claims that it has no investigative power and thus pushed the job to the MACC. The MACC claimed that their legal definition of corruption was so very different from the Election Offenses Act that they would not touch the matter. And so the truth is, the very law prohibiting vote-buying does not have an enforcer!"
More where that came from:
http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/130342
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