Bawaslu Finds Thousands Of Damaged Voice Letters In Tarakan

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A total of 9,284 ballots were found damaged by the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) of Tarakan City, North Kalimantan (Kaltara).

Coordinator of the Division for Handling Violations and Completion of Disputes and Deputy of Koordiv Human Resources, Organization, Education, Training, Data and Information of the Tarakan City Bawaslu, Jhonson said that the damaged ballots came purely from printing.

"Bawaslu has coordinated with the Tarakan City General Election Commission (Commission), this is purely damage that occurred during the printing of ballots," he said, Monday, January 22.

Details of the ballots that were damaged were 112 presidential election ballots (Pilpres), 732 ballots DPD, 632 DPRs, 772 ballots from the Tarakan City DPRD and 7,725 sheets from the Kaltara Provincial DPRD.

"This data was found during Bawaslu supervision in the field," he continued.

In addition to monitoring, Bawaslu also ensures the security of the logistics.

"Visagement of logistics in the field is also carried out such as sorting ballot boxes, ballot booths, inklets, seales, plastic seales and visually impaired aids and ballot letters," said Jhonson.

The lack of personnel, continued Jhonson, his party involved the sub-district-level Supervisory Committee (Panwas) in Tarakan City.

"About 18 people we divide per team from the Panwas sub-district. This is due to the lack of our human resources. Our supervision system is divided into three teams," concluded Jhonson.