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Poll body assures transparency of vote tally
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Citizen make the right to vote in one of the polling (JP/Jerry Adiguna)
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he General Elections Commission (KPU) has given assurances that counting for both the legislative and presidential elections was going well, as ballots from hundreds of thousands of polling stations across the country have started to arrive at their respective districts for recapitulation.
“The district-level recapitulation will take 16 days, from April 18 to May 4,” KPU commissioner Viryan Azis said on Friday, adding that all ballots would arrive in Jakarta on April 25 after going through the regency and province levels.
The final counting day — when the final results are revealed — is expected to fall on May 22.
Viryan added counting over the past two days had been conducted transparently, as representatives of elections, participants and supervisors from the Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) were supervising every step.
Despite the smooth counting process, the KPU conceded that voting on Wednesday was tinged with disappointment as some residents were unable to cast their ballots. The reasons varied, from logistical distribution problems to natural disasters, such as floods.
According to KPU data, 2,249 polling stations (TPS) across 18 regencies and cities will conduct voting or revoting due to a delay in ballot distribution.
Of these, 1,191 are located in the easternmost province of Papua, which lacks infrastructure.
