If you're taking about now, then yea lar i can see LKY doing
it.
But in 1963 he still a small fry and hardly have the political
power to pull this off without anyone knowing or discovering
it.
The Barisan Sosialis and the other parties would have
raised nine hells if there was even the remote chance that LKY
switched out the votes. You're not going to keep 600k worth of
votes on standby for the blackout and then move it into the
counting centre swiftly without anyone from the other parties
noticing it.
Was LKY such a small fry in 1963 - when he had stepped into
political office in 1957 taking over the seat of Internal
Self-Government from Lim Yew Hock ?
There was that huge Bukit Ho Swee Fire on 25 May 1961 - which
remained to be a "mystery" till this day.
It came as such a "'God-send' co-incidence" for the Singapore
Government, when negotiations between HDB and the large
squatter population came to a dead-lock.
The fire cleared the squatters out without any compensations
being given, and the 16,000 homeless were dispersed and resettled
in recently completed HDB units located in Queenstown and St.
Michael areas, and had to pay for their new first generation
HDB units.
Whether it was arson or an accident, it remained a mystery. Then
there was an initial report that the
fire had started from an electrical cable - which
provided the spark to light up the tinder box of squatter attap
huts that were made drier during the hot period
experienced every May.
How did this electrical cable become a problem at such a
co-incidental time when the squatter colony had to
be cleared, and when compensation negotiations became
deadlocked ?
With the fire burning all evidence to ash and the fire
investigators not having the many sophisticated tools available
today, the fire continue to be a mystery due to disinterest from
the government to pursue the matter.
Why should they - when their desired objectives have been met
?