Anticipate Cheating, KPU Will Take Photos Of Faces And Identity Of PSU Voters Kuala Lumpur

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The General Elections Commission (KPU) plans to take pictures of the faces and identities of voters during the 2024 General Election (PSU) re-voting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

KPU chairman Hasyim Asy'ari said the move was to anticipate people who do not have voting rights to participate in voting through a mobile ballot box (KSK).

"To overcome it, to anticipate so that people who are not entitled to vote, when that person will choose by the KSK method, we ask for a photo of their face and ID or identity so that the person present is really that person," said Hasyim as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, 26 February.

He explained that the Kuala Lumpur PSU no longer uses the post method, but the KSK and voting at the TPS. For the KSK method, the KPU will ensure that only voters have the right to vote.

It is known that the election stage in Kuala Lumpur will be repeated. This is in line with the advice of the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) to the KPU.

The KPU hopes that it can complete the PSU on time before the deadline for the national recap and the determination of the results of the national election on March 20.

"At the maximum March 20, we are trying according to the time frame, we are grateful that everything can be completed and we can set it nationally before the deadline," he said.

KPU and Bawaslu previously agreed not to count the votes of post and KSK voters in Kuala Lumpur because of the integrity of the voter list and will re-update the voter list.

In the process of matching and research (collite) by the Committee for Updating the Kuala Lumpur Voter List in 2023, Bawaslu found that only about 12 percent of voters were bulked out of a total of about 490,000 people in the Potential Voter Population Data (DP4) from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who needed to be bulked.

Bawaslu also found a fictitious voter list updating committee (pandrih) of up to 18 people. As a result, on voting day, the number of special voters (DPK) exploded by around 50 percent in Kuala Lumpur.