No Need for New Ballot Boxes

The KPU wants to change the material used to make ballot boxes. This is a waste of state funds and could lead to corruption.

July 22, 2008

NEW election, new ballot boxes. This is what we are likely to see at the polling stations every five years. The General Elections Commission (KPU) seems to have changed its policy on the supply of resources without considering an important factor: saving state funds.

It would be a major mistake if the KPU under the leadership of Abdul Hafiz Ansary took this easy option. The KPU’s decision to replace the aluminum ballot boxes with those made of

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