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KPU Cianjur lost 107 C1 documents for vote recounts
The Cianjur regency General Elections Commission (KPUD) lost as many as 107 C1 documents containing the voting records from the legislative elections at their polling stations in Cianjur, West Java
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he Cianjur regency General Elections Commission (KPUD) lost as many as 107 C1 documents containing the voting records from the legislative elections at their polling stations in Cianjur, West Java.
Cianjur KPUD chairperson Anggi Shofia Wardany said that the commission had previously separated the ballot papers and the C1 documents from the 344 polling stations currently being disputed. However, after they emptied the ballot boxes in preparation for the upcoming presidential elections, they discovered that the documents had vanished.
"We have still not found them," Anggi said during a plenary eeting regarding the Constitutional Court decision about voting recounts for the Democratic Party in 11 villages in Cianjur at the West Java KPUD headquarters in Bandung, on Wednesday.
Previously, West Java Legislative Council (DPRD I) candidate Hedi Permana Boy filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court against fellow Democratic Party candidate Wawan Setiawan, whom he claimed had marked up votes for himself.
The Court then asked the polling committee to recount the votes based on the C1 documents, which were the notes on the voting record at the polling stations.
However, due to the losses, the central KPU advised the committee to recount the votes. For the polling stations without the C1 documents, the KPU advised them to use either the C1 hologram or the voting records from the KPU.
KPU commissioner Ferry Rizki Kurniansyah said that they would continue to investigate the whereabouts of the documents to determine whether wrongdoing or negligence was responsible.
Separately, West Java Elections Monitoring Agency (Bawaslu) commissioner Wasikin said that the loss of the C1 documents was evidence of the poor performance of the KPU during the elections.
Wasikin claimed that the C1 documents were the size of a desk and could not have been lost easily.
"We are going to keep monitoring the recapitulation. We are also waiting for the conclusion of the plenary meeting so that we can issue recommendations to the DKPP [Election Organizers Ethics Council] because there are indications of a lack of discipline. People can be sanctioned for losing state documents," Wasikin said. (fss)
