Golput: A Protest Vote?
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
The number of non-voters in the first round of the presidential election was quite big and is expected to rise in the second round. Are they mostly supporters of Amien Rais?
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Three-hundred-and-two registered voters were expected to visit polling station No. 12 in Central Java's Purwosari Sub-district. But as of late afternoon on July 5, only 16 had appeared. Officials of the local elections organizing committee (KPPS), witnesses and observers there joked with one another and read the newspaper to kill time. "There was nothing else to do," said Yazid Muttaqien, the KPPS Chairman.
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