The move by the Selangor government not to seek the addresses of 136,272 dubious voters that it claimed to be questionable but pressing on for the locality codes and names for 1994 and 2003 had seriously undermined its judicial review application, ruled the Court of Appeal.

This was stated in Justice Abdul Rahman Sebli's written judgment on Selangor government's appeal against the Election Commission to cross-examine its chief, Mohd Hisham Abdullah, and allow the EC's cross appeal to set aside the Kuala Lumpur High Court decision in ordering that it furnishes the locality codes and names of the 136,272 voters.

Justice Abdul Rahman, who was the second judge on the three-member bench that dismissed state government's appeal in July, said the decision made by Selangor to drop its case on having the addresses of 136,272 voters had resulted in its ground to seek judicial review without any leg to stand on...