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No evidence of special voter list misuse, says Constitutional Court
The Constitutional Court (MK) says there is no evidence of misuse of special voter lists (DPK), additional voter lists (DPTb) and additional special voter lists (DPKTb) during the July 9 presidential election
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he Constitutional Court (MK) says there is no evidence of misuse of special voter lists (DPK), additional voter lists (DPTb) and additional special voter lists (DPKTb) during the July 9 presidential election.
'There has been no evidence that the defendant, namely the General Elections Commission (KPU) and related parties [Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo and Jusuf Kalla presidential and vice presidential candidate] or both of them carried out any mobilization,' Constitutional Court Justice Ahmad Fadlil Sumadi said as quoted by Antara news agency.
He made the statement when reading out considerations of the court's ruling over the presidential election dispute filed by candidate pair Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa in a hearing on Thursday.
Fadlil said arguments provided by the plaintiffs saying that the DPKTb in several provinces, namely East Java, Jakarta, North Sumatra, and Riau, had benefited a certain ticket were also not proven.
'The court has scrutinized DPKTb from regions across Indonesia and found that they did not bring losses to a certain presidential-vice presidential candidate,' said Fadlil.
The court also considered that the DPKTb did not violate rules and should be seen as an implementation of the rights of citizens who had not been registered on the final voter list (DPT) to cast their vote.
'DPKTb, DPK, DPTb are in accordance with laws and gave voters a chance to cast their vote even though they were not listed on the DPT,' said Fadlil.
The Prabowo-Hatta ticket filed election dispute, claiming there had been structured, systematic and massive fraud during the 2014 presidential election. (ebf)
