Bawaslu Affirms PSU To Ensure Purity Of Vote Rights

Member of the Indonesian Bawaslu Lolly Suhenty when giving a statement about the PSU, in Banda Aceh, Wednesday (21/2/2024) (ANTARA/Rahmat Fajri)

BANDA ACEH - Bawaslu stated that the implementation of re-voting (PSU) in elections is an effort to ensure the purity of votes or voting rights, not something that is considered bad.

"In principle, the PSU maintains the purity of the right to vote, and there should be nothing that has the potential to not comply with the rules, eliminating the voting rights of others," said Bawaslu member Lolly Suhenty as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, February 21.

Lolly Suhenty made this statement during a working visit and a meeting with Panwaslih Aceh in the context of voting and other technical matters in Aceh.

He said, for Aceh, there are 35 recommendations from Panwaslih Aceh that have the potential for PSU, and so far there has been a decision and a schedule for collecting 16 polling stations throughout Aceh. Others are in the process at KIP Aceh.

He explained that there are still many people who do not understand the PSU, so they are considered to be worsening the image of the region, causing riots or harming the citizen's right to vote.

"PSU is a mechanism to ensure the purity of votes generated from our election process," he said.

Therefore, he asked Panwaslih Aceh to ensure that the implementation of the PSU does not experience disturbances, obstacles or mistakes. Given that the re-vote process can only be done once.

"PSU should not happen twice, only once, so we ensure that there is no slightest error in this PSU process," he said.

Based on the results of the supervisor's findings, the PSU was carried out because there were people who chose more than once, and chose outside the place where they were registered as voters.

"Most of the findings are those who choose more than once, not local. On average, this process makes it a PSU," said Loly Suhenty.