From the horse's mouth - The cat is out of the bag.

So now we have it. The cat is out of the bag. The past elections had not been fair. This comes from 2 horse's mouth.
First, former minister and veteran Umno member Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir confessed that "All the radio, all the newspapers, all the televisions... it carries only one voice,"
When he was the minister of information (under fifth prime minister Abdullah Badawi) he felt that he was not strong enough to effect any change.
 He also said that he was given stacks of notes to distribute when he was helping in by-elections. He even had ministers telling him that money was necessary for politics and criticised this belief as just a means to justify corruption and abuse of power.
Finally he conceeded that introducing indelible ink would not ensure free and fair elections.
Next, the former Election Commission (EC) chairperson Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman
confessed that when he was EC chief, he had proposed changes but could not touch on structural reforms as he had to maintain his relationship with the government.
The "election man" of 27 years said his difficulties then were compounded by the fact that he was bound by electoral laws.
"If the election laws are dumb as a cow, then we're dumb as a cow," he lamented.
Rashid criticised the involvement of other agencies in conducting polls, urging that the EC be given full powers.
Finally, he suggested that public media should not be used for campaigning but if you are going to, then there should at least be equal access.
So where are all the umno ministers who kept on insisting that the elction is fair and transparent? What have you got to say now?