Kalla, Mega demand repair to voter roll
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Mon, 07/06/2009 1:17 AM
Presidential candidates Jusuf Kalla and Megawati Soekarnoputri met at Muhammadiyah headquarters here on Sunday evening and demanded that the General Election Commission (KPU) immediately repair the troubled electoral roll.
Speaking a joint press conference after a closed-door meeting at the second-largest Muslim organization Muhammadiyah’s headquarters in Menteng, Central Jakarta, the Megawati-Prabowo pair and their rival Jusuf Kalla and his running mate Wiranto expressed their optimism that the polling body could repair the electoral roll in a day if it had the good will to do so.
“The KPU will be able to do the repairs quickly by scratching out double names and single identity numbers, names of the dead voters, of servicemen and of child voters.
“The repair is not for our own interests but for the sake of the people and the democracy because it is not certain the unregistered voters will vote for Megawati or me."
Kalla confirmed his campaign team has received many reports concerning the electoral fraud cases in numerous provinces both in Java and outside of Java.
Megawati concurred and said the repair of the electoral roll was a must to ensure a free and fair election as she did during her tenure in 2004.
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