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KPU, Bawaslu investigate alleged rigging in Selangor
“How could they easily enter the place and open the bags? And where is the CCTV?” Hasyim said.
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Inspection: General Elections Commission (KPU) official Hasyim Asy’ari (right), Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) official Ratna Dewi Pettalolo (center) and Overseas Election Committee (PPLN) official Yusron B Ambary (left) inspect a warehouse filled with ballots for next week’s elections at the Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. (Antara/Agus Setiawan)
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lection organizers sent on Friday a joint team to Selangor, Malaysia, to investigate reports of thousands of marked overseas ballots.
The team flew to Kuala Lumpur only hours after Yaza Azzahra Ulyana, the head of the Kuala Lumpur Elections Supervisory Agency (Panwaslu Kuala Lumpur), lodged a formal report about the finding of the alleged marked ballots in favor of incumbent ticket President Joko “Jokowi “ Widodo and two candidates from the NasDem Party.
The committee made the report after verifying a video of people raiding an empty store and unpacking several bags containing the marked ballots.
The team, consisting of members of the General Elections Commission (KPU) and the Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu), directly visited the locations where the precast ballots were allegedly found — an empty store in Taman Universiti Sungai Tangkas Bangi and a house in Bandar Baru Bangi, which have been sealed off by Malaysian police.
“We, from the KPU and Bawaslu, have come to Kuala Lumpur to clarify [the report],” said KPU commissioner Hasyim Asy’ari in a press conference in Kuala Lumpur as quoted by Antara.
He said the team had yet to confirm whether the marked ballots were genuine.
Hasyim also questioned the video as many people could have easily entered the store where the ballots were found. A location used to store ballots should have been secured tightly, he said.
