Kusnasriyati Sri Rahayu paced up and down, her hands raised in protest, but witnessess and attendants on duty paid her no attention. At polling office 132 in the district of Pandeansari, near Yogyakarta last Monday, they were too busy debating the validity of double-punched ballot papers, piercing right through the title page.

Feeling ignored, the wife of presidential candidate Amien Rais begins screeching.

"Pak…, Pak…, l