Bawaslu Finds 19 Voting Problems And Vote Calculations In The 2024 Election

Illustration of the 2024 Election (ANTARA)

Chairman of the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) RI Rahmat Bagja revealed that his party found 19 problems in the stages of voting and counting votes for the 2024 General Election.

Bagja explained that the findings were based on the results of surveillance patrols in 38 provinces which were stated through the Election Supervision Information System (Siwaslu) application until February 15, 2024 at 06.00 WIB.

"Bawaslu identified 13 problems in the implementation of the vote and 6 problems in the implementation of the vote count," said Bagja at the Indonesian Bawaslu Building, Jakarta, Thursday, February 15.

However, the data is considered incomplete due to internet network constraints, limited network access at the time of sending data, so it has the potential to increase.

Member of the Indonesian Bawaslu Lolly Suhenty explained that 13 problems during the voting included 37,466 polling stations (TPS) experiencing the opening of the vote starting at more than 07.00 local time.

"Secondly, there are 12,284 polling stations where visually disabled aids are not available at TPS. Third, there are 10,496 polling stations whose voting logistics are incomplete," said Lolly.

Fourth, said Lolly, there were 8,219 polling stations where special voters were found who used their voting rights not in accordance with the village domicile in electronic ID cards.

Fifth, there are 6,084 polling stations that have been transferred. Then, there were 5,836 polling stations found that there were voters who did not sign a companion statement letter.

"There were 5,449 polling stations found by the KPPS (voting Organizing Group) that did not explain the procedures for the implementation of voting and vote counting," he said.

Eighth, 3,724 polling stations were found that the announcement board of the Permanent Voter List (DPT) was not installed around the polling station and did not contain marked voters for voters who did not meet the requirements.

"There were 3,521 polling stations where witnesses were found wearing attributes containing elements or serial numbers of pairs of candidates for political parties or candidates for DPD (Regional Representative Council) candidates," he explained.

Keten, lanjut dia, terdapat 2.632 TPS ditemukan adanya mobilisasi dan/atau mengarahkan pilihan pemilik voter oleh tim sukses, peserta pemilu, dan/atau penyelenggara untuk menggunakan hak pilihnya di TPS.

Furthermore, there were 2,509 polling stations where witnesses were found unable to show a written mandate letter from the campaign team or election participants.

"There are 2,413 polling stations, voters use their voting rights more than once. And there are 2,271 polling stations where there is intimidation of voters and/or to election organizers at polling stations," said Lolly.

Meanwhile, Lolly said that there were 11,233 polling stations found that there was a Recapitulation Information System (Sirekap) that could not be accessed by election supervisors, witnesses and/or the public.

"There are 3,463 polling stations that will count the votes starting before the voting time is completed at 1 p.m. western Indonesia time," he said.

Third, he said, there were 2,162 polling stations with discrepancies in the number of valid ballot counting results and invalid ballots with the number of voters exercising their voting rights.

Next, there were 1,895 polling stations that were found by the TPS supervisor who were not given a copy Model C. Copy.

Then, there were 1,888 polling stations where witnesses, TPS supervisors, and community members could not clearly witness the vote counting process.

"There are 1,473 polling stations with intimidation against the organizers," added Lolly.