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New vote counting platform criticized over data errors
When vote counting started a few hours after the polls closed on Feb. 14, local poll administrators (KPPS) and members of the public voiced complaints on social media about irregularities in vote count data on Sirekap, which is accessible through the KPU’s official website.
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An election monitor working on behalf of a presidential candidate pair takes a picture of local vote count results in Palu, Central Sulawesi, on Feb. 17, 2024. (Antara/Basri Marzuki)
The Tabulation Information System (Sirekap), the digital vote-counting and tabulating platform used by the General Elections Commission (KPU) for the 2024 general election, has drawn criticism for its apparent failure to reliably read vote tallies from scanned official forms.
When vote counting started a few hours after the polls closed on Feb. 14, local poll administrators (KPPS) and members of the public voiced complaints on social media about irregularities in vote count data on Sirekap, which is accessible through the KPU’s official website.
Among the complaints was that the vote counts shown on the platform were different from those on the manual C1 forms photographed or scanned by poll workers.
In some cases, the total votes shown on Sirekap exceeded the number of voters registered at the polling station. In others, the number of votes for certain candidates differed from the figure recorded on the manual form.
The Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) asked the KPU on Saturday to suspend the publication of the vote count on Sirekap until it could ensure the accuracy of the data on the platform.
Observers also raised concerns about the platform’s data security following claims that the data was stored in cloud services whose servers were located abroad, such as China, Singapore and France, tempo.co reported.
Read also: Sirekap data delayed for synchronization, KPU says
