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Bawaslu ready to monitor Feb. 15 election process
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Ahead voting: Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) chairman Muhammad (right) talks with General Elections Commission (KPU) head Juri Ardiantoro (left) prior to a hearing on the 2017 regional elections at the House of Representatives’ Commission II, which oversees regional affairs, in Jakarta on Jan. 13. (Antara/Wahyu Putro A.)
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he Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) is set to dispatch officers to observe the voting process in all polling stations during the elections, which are scheduled to be held simultaneously in 101 regencies and municipalities across the country on Feb. 15.
Bawaslu chairman Muhammad said Friday supervisors from the agency would be assigned to safeguard the election process in all of the polling stations from the beginning.
“In the 2014 legislative and presidential elections, three supervisors were deployed in one subdistrict, each of which had between 60 to 100 polling stations, especially in densely populated areas such as in Java. They were overwhelmed as they had to supervise the voting process in several polling stations at the same time,” Muhammad said in a discussion at the House of Representatives compound in Senayan, Central Jakarta.
“The supervisors to be deployed in the upcoming regional elections would monitor the process from when the polling stations opened to until the vote count,” he went on.
Muhammad further said Bawaslu would implement “IT-based” supervision in the Feb. 15 elections, in which supervisors would take pictures of vote tally results in each polling station and send them immediately to the agency's server. (ebf)
