A Total Of 613 People With Disabilities In Tanjungpinang Registered Voters In The 2024 Election

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TANJUNGPINANG - The voter data updating committee (pantih) in Tanjungpinang City, Riau Islands included 613 people with disabilities as voters based on the provisional results of matching and voter data research. KPU member Tanjungpinang Hafidz Diwa Prayoga said, as many as 613 people with disabilities were residents of Bukit Bestari Subdistrict as many as 185 people, Tanjungpinang City 113 people, West Tanjungpinang 159 people, and East Tanjungpinang District 156 people. According to him, the number of people with disabilities recorded as voters in the 2024 Election has the potential to increase. "All Indonesian citizens, including persons with disabilities who meet the requirements as voters, must be recorded as voters as candidates. The right to choose citizens is protected by the constitution," he said, quoted by ANTARA, Sunday 5 March. He stated that the parties had carried out their duties since February 14, 2023 for a month. They had matched and researched 166,747 voters. The voter data was the result of a blending of data sourced from the Ministry of Home Affairs with data updating data on ongoing voter data. Based on data while matching and research up to March 4, 2023, pelantih crossed 1,055 names of voters who did not meet the requirements, such as deaths of the TNI and Polri, as well as the placement of 605 polling stations (TPS). "The election has made a match and research on 118,713 voter names," he said. The Head of Bawaslu Kepri Muhammad Zaini said his party was working with the Tanjungpinang Social Service to collaborate with two disability organizations so that all persons with disabilities who met the requirements as registered voters as voters. "We obtained accurate data from the Tanjungpinang Social Service, the Disconization Communication Forum and the Tanjungpinang Disability Supporting Association," he said.

Based on data sourced from the two organizations, he said the number of people with disabilities who have the right to vote in Tanjungpinang in the 2024 election is more than 500 people. Meanwhile, the number of people with disabilities who were registered as voters in the 2019 Election was 347 people, and the 2020 Riau Islands Pilkada in Tanjungpinang was 355 people. "Pantarih is expected to be more optimal in recording persons with disabilities so that it is recorded as voters," he said.