ELECTRONIC TABULATION
Scanning Setbacks
A number of the provinces are having difficulties tabulating votes electronically. At the end of day, the official election results will be the result of a manual count.
April 14, 2009
A packet of influenza medicine lay scattered on his computer desk, on Thursday evening last week. Didik Abdillah’s face, a computer operator at the Lumajang regency General Elections Commission (KPU) in East Java, appeared disheveled. He repeatedly rubbed his forehead as he looked at the pile of papers on the desk. Didik along with his two colleagues must calculate the results from 2,126 polling stations. Processing just one folder can take up
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