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KPU Jakarta holds revote at two polling stations

KPU Jakarta holds revote at two polling stations Workers sort and fold ballots for the 2017 Jakarta election at a logistics warehouse of the Central Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPU Central Jakarta) on Jan.24. (Antara/Widodo S. Jusuf)
News Desk (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta   ●   Sun, February 19, 2017

The Jakarta Elections Commission (KPU Jakarta) is holding revotes in two polling stations after finding that several people had voted without registration.

KPU Jakarta head Sumarno said the election committee had accepted a recommendation for the revotes in a polling station in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, and another one in Pancoran, South Jakarta. 

Jakarta Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu Jakarta) had recommended the revote in the two locations after discovering that more than one person had cast ballots without showing proper identification.

“There is no problem with ballot stocks [for the revote],” said Sumarno as quoted by kpujakarta.go.id.

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He said the only difference between the ballots used on Sunday and those previously used on Feb. 15 was that each ballot would bear the word “revote”.

The revote will be held from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.  on Sunday. (wit)