11th-Hour Corrections
The General Elections Commission passed on the task of verifying the final voter lists to polling committees at the village-head level. But the effectiveness of this depends upon party witnesses.
April 7, 2009
THE man arrived at the Surabaya regional office of the General Elections Commission (KPUD) in East Java very early in the morning. He appeared anxious. “I’m waiting for a copy of the final voter list for residents in my subdistrict,” said 55-year-old Hanis Suroso, the head of the regional polling committee for Benowo subdistrict in Surabaya, on Wednesday last week.
Out of the five kelurahan (political district administered by the village c
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