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Wed, 02/04/2009 - 21:18
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KPU NOT TO ALLOW BALLOTS MARKED TWICE
Jakarta, Feb 4 (ANTARA) - The General Elections Commission (KPU) will not issue a regulation validating ballots that are marked twice in the legislative elections to be held on April 9, its chairman, Abdul Hafiz Anshary, said here on Wednesday.
"Because it has no legal umbrella, ballot marking may only be done once," he said after a KPU plenary meeting.
He said the regulation on ballot marking remained namely it would only allow one ballot marking put on the name of the party, the name of legislative candidate or the sequence number of the candidate.
Hafiz said that the government regulation made in lieu of law (Perppu) that would validate ballots marked twice would unlikely be issued. In view of that he said the KPU had to immediately make a decision to that effect. He said the meeting had agreed the KPU would not wait for the Perppu and declared that it would use the regulation that would validate only ballots marked just once.
In the near future the KPU would carry out a technical guidance for elections field workers. The materials for it include voting and vote counting.
"There will be no change. Familiarization will be about one ballot marking regulation," he said.
Regarding the mark to be used Hafiz said the KPU would allow a tick, a dash or a cross with regard to increasing the number of valid votes.
He said a tick remained to be the mark to be used for the voting but in vote counting ballots with cross or dash marks would be considered valid while a round mark would not.
He said the KPU had to issue a decision regarding ballot marks that would be declared valid as a reference for elections workers so that they would not be confused.
On a separate occasion KPU member Andi Nurpati said a round mark would not be accomodated because it was not suitable for use. "The mark is only fit for numbers but will not to mark a column with a candidate's name on it," he said.
On a separate occasion a political observer from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Syamsuddin Haris, said he hailed the KPU's decision not to issue a regulation to validate ballots marked twice as no perppu for it had been issued.
"Allowing twice marking on ballots requires revision of the law," he said
"Because it has no legal umbrella, ballot marking may only be done once," he said after a KPU plenary meeting.
He said the regulation on ballot marking remained namely it would only allow one ballot marking put on the name of the party, the name of legislative candidate or the sequence number of the candidate.
Hafiz said that the government regulation made in lieu of law (Perppu) that would validate ballots marked twice would unlikely be issued. In view of that he said the KPU had to immediately make a decision to that effect. He said the meeting had agreed the KPU would not wait for the Perppu and declared that it would use the regulation that would validate only ballots marked just once.
In the near future the KPU would carry out a technical guidance for elections field workers. The materials for it include voting and vote counting.
"There will be no change. Familiarization will be about one ballot marking regulation," he said.
Regarding the mark to be used Hafiz said the KPU would allow a tick, a dash or a cross with regard to increasing the number of valid votes.
He said a tick remained to be the mark to be used for the voting but in vote counting ballots with cross or dash marks would be considered valid while a round mark would not.
He said the KPU had to issue a decision regarding ballot marks that would be declared valid as a reference for elections workers so that they would not be confused.
On a separate occasion KPU member Andi Nurpati said a round mark would not be accomodated because it was not suitable for use. "The mark is only fit for numbers but will not to mark a column with a candidate's name on it," he said.
On a separate occasion a political observer from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Syamsuddin Haris, said he hailed the KPU's decision not to issue a regulation to validate ballots marked twice as no perppu for it had been issued.
"Allowing twice marking on ballots requires revision of the law," he said
