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Jakarta voter list rises to 7.7 million
Some 7.7 million people are eligible to vote in the 2019 legislative and presidential elections.
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A man checks the final voter list for the 2019 general elections in Kebon Melati, Central Jakarta. (The Jakarta Post/Dhoni Setiawan )
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he Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPU Jakarta) announced on Friday that there are some 7.7 million people eligible to vote in the 2019 legislative and presidential elections, up from the previous 7.21 million recorded in August.
"Voters are dispersed in 44 districts, 267 subdistricts and 29,010 polling stations in Jakarta," KPU Jakarta planning and data division head, Partono, said on Friday, as reported by kompas.com.
The commission had previously received feedback from the public regarding invalid and double entries on the voter list and Bawaslu removed more than 5,000 names in September.
In addition, Jakarta KPU also collected data on mental health patients in eight social institutions as well as prison inmates in the city to be listed as eligible voters. Regarding the inmates, the KPU had coordinated with the Jakarta office of the Law and Human Rights Ministry and heads of prisons and detention centers in the city.
“We have verified mental health patients' and inmates' identity card and family card numbers and added them to the final voter list according to their original address,” Partono said. (ars)
