Indonesians vote again in country’s presidential election after fraud claims
Indonesian citizens living in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur recasted their ballots again in the country’s presidential election on Sunday after allegations of voter fraud.
Seven officials from the Kuala Lumpur election committee were named suspects on Feb. 29 for allegedly tampering with the region’s voter list “because of the influence of lobbying from representatives of political parties," police said.
Idham Holik, a commissioner at Indonesia’s General Elections Commission – or KPU – said the agency was updating the list of Indonesian voters in Kuala Lumpur and that the total registered voters who are slated for the 2024 election revote was 62,217.
Holik said some 42,372 voters will revote at a total of 22 polling stations located in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
The rest of 19,845 voters will revote through mobile ballot box across several states of Selangor, Perak, Terengganu, WP Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Kelantan, Holik added.
Voting in Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 11 attracted particular attention after the Elections Supervisory Agency - or BAWASLU - announced it had found indications of administrative violations during the election process.
Among the irregularities found in the city were over 62,000 unregistered mail-in votes with untraceable addresses, damaged ballot papers and alterations to the voter list.
This is not the first time the KPU had to organize a revote in Kuala Lumpur because of allegations of election fraud.
In the 2019 general election, the KPU asked some 300,000 people in Kuala Lumpur to vote again following allegations of ballot tampering.
Official election results are expected to be announced on March 20.
(Source: AP)
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