The General Elections Commission (KPU) has called off its plan to use an electronic vote recapitulation (e-recap) system to help determine the winners of the 2020 simultaneous regional elections following objections from lawmakers. The poll body failed last week to secure approval from lawmakers to issue a new KPU regulation to replace the manual recapitulation system with e-recap in all regions holding the Dec. 9 elections to help election authorities tally the final votes. Under the existing 2016 law on regional elections, the KPU is obliged to consult with House of Representatives Commission II overseeing home affairs in devising regulations. “Unfortunately, lawmakers did not approve our plan [to use the e-recap system for the elections],” KPU commissioner Evi Novida Ginting Manik said on Sunday. The House's rejection stemmed from concern that the e-recap s...