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Data entry errors do not annul poll results: Constitutional Court
As Prabowo’s legal team insisted that there had been data entry errors — which the camp claims constitute fraud — in the KPU’s vote tally in the real count system (Situng), the court reminded the presidential ticket during the hearing that Situng did not determine the result of the election.
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Seeking the truth: Constitutional Court justices Enny Nurbaningsih and Saldi Isra examine evidence during a hearing of the Prabowo Subianto–Sandiaga Uno campaign team’s dispute of the presidential election result in Jakarta on Thursday. During Thursday’s hearing, the court heard testimonies from experts proposed by the General Elections Commission (KPU).
(The Jakarta Post/Seto Wardhana)
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he hearing at the Constitutional Court on Thursday seems to have further revealed that the chances may be slim for challenger Prabowo Subianto to overturn the General Elections Commission’s (KPU) official election result, which has put President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on course for a second term.
As Prabowo’s legal team insisted that there had been data entry errors — which the camp claims constitute fraud — in the KPU’s vote tally in the real count system (Situng), the court reminded the presidential ticket during the hearing that Situng did not determine the result of the election.
In its lawsuit, the incumbent’s rival accused the KPU of, among other things, manipulating the entry of the vote tally into Situng in favor of the Jokowi-Ma’ruf Amin pair, which resulted in the loss of votes gained by the Prabowo-Sandiaga Uno pair as shown in Situng.
Jaswar Koto, an expert in biometric software development who testified in Prabowo’s favor, told the justices during a hearing session in the early hours of Thursday that data entry errors had inflated Jokowi’s vote tally by at least 1,300 votes, while his rival’s got reduced by 3,000 votes.
The KPU later presented IT professor Marsudi Wahyu Kisworo as its expert witness, who countered the claim by saying there could not have been an intentional manipulation to benefit a particular presidential candidate since the pattern of data entry errors was so random.
There indeed had been data entry errors, Marsudi said, but the mistakes were merely human errors that happened during the data input process, which resulted in the vote count showing different numbers compared to the uploaded C1 vote tally forms.
“The [errors] benefited and disadvantaged the votes gained by both candidates [in Situng],” Marsudi said, “I cannot see that there happened to be any intention [to manipulate] the data.”
