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Campaign teams allege electoral violations
From sudden campaign permit revocation to ballot tampering abroad, the campaign teams of the three 2024 presidential candidates have reported claims of electoral foul play a week ahead of the Feb. 14 voting day.
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Residents wait in line on Feb. 7, 2024, to update their voter registration details so that they can vote at polling stations other than where they are registered, at the North Jakarta Elections Commission (KPU) office in Jakarta. The KPU allowed voters to change their voting details until midnight on Feb. 7. (Antara/Bayu Pratama)
The campaign teams of the three 2024 presidential candidates have claimed that there is foul play regarding the election in several regions and abroad, as concerns over the poll’s integrity continue to mount amid reports of state worker partisanship a week ahead of the Feb. 14 voting day.
Over the past week, campaigners for the Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar presidential pair met with regional representatives of the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) to report potential electoral violations.
As reported by local media, a representative of the Anies-Muhaimin campaign team filed a report with the Central Java Bawaslu office on Tuesday about 502,000 allegedly fictitious voters on the provincial voter list.
The camp also filed a report to the election supervisor in East Java on Monday pertaining to an open rally permit that was revoked in Pasuruan regency.
The rally was initially planned to be held in an open field in Martopuro village on Feb. 9. The campaign team had obtained a permit from the village administration on Jan 29. But the village head revoked the permit a day later, as reported by tribunnews.com, citing his concern that the event would damage the recently renovated field.
The team eventually moved the rally to Untung Suropati Stadium in Pasuruan.
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