Depok poll body still busy with new voters<\/p>\n
Bambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
With the Depok mayoral election just three days away, poll
\ncommittees in the municipality's 53 subdistricts are still busy
\nregistering first-time voters and others not yet on voter lists.<\/p>\n
\"We have registered 250 new voters within two days up to 2
\np.m. today (Thursday). We estimate there will be some 300 new
\nvoters in the Kemirimuka subdistrict,\" polling station chairman
\nRojudin told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The registrations would be closed at 9 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The new eligible voters would be added to the 16,746 residents
\non the permanent eligible voters list (DPT), Rojudin said.<\/p>\n
The re-registration drive was held on Wednesday and Thursday,
\na day after the candidates' campaign period closed on June 22, in
\nresponse to protests students and supporters of candidate Nur
\nMahmudi Ismail who had insisted there were many residents that
\nhad never been recorded on the KPU's Depok voter list.<\/p>\n
Currently, the Depok Elections Commission (KPUD Depok) has
\nregistered 899,419 eligible voters.<\/p>\n
Previously, an executive of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS)
\nin Tugu subdistrict, Sugeng, said that there were some 6,000
\neligible voters in the subdistrict who were not on the voter
\nlists.<\/p>\n
He said 52,000 residents were listed as voters for the
\npresidential election last year. But only 41,605 residents
\nregistered as voters for the mayoral election.<\/p>\n
\"I assumed that 2,000 residents had moved to other places or
\ndied. Therefore, there are still some 6,000 residents, who have
\nnot yet been registered,\" he said during a meeting with KPU Depok
\nrecently.<\/p>\n
Supporters for candidate Badrul Kamal, meanwhile, were not
\nhappy with the re-registration.<\/p>\n
Badrul's campaign team spokesman Muhammad Hasan said the voter
\nregistration had been carried out properly and the reopening of
\nvoter registrations was unnecessary, although many of Badrul's
\nsupporters had also not been registered.<\/p>\n
\"We do not agree with the new registration because it will
\nburden the polling committees more,\" Hasan told the Post on
\nThursday.<\/p>\n
A recent telephone poll revealed that Badrul, who was
\nnominated by Golkar Party and the National Awakening Party, and
\nNur Mahmudi, who was nominated by PKS, are the two most popular
\nof the five candidates running for mayor.<\/p>\n
The three other candidates are Abdul Wahab Abidin, Yus
\nRuswandi, and Harun Heryana.<\/p>\n
KPUD chairman Zulfadli said that only those whose names
\nalready on the temporary voter lists (DPS) could be submitted to
\nthe DPT. But Rojudin said the subdistrict's polling committee
\nregistered all residents who met the requirements.<\/p>\n
\"If we do not register residents who can show their ID, but
\nnot on the DPS list, we are accused of discrimination. I am
\nafraid it will cause conflict among residents,\" Rojudin said.<\/p>\n
According to KPUD staff Solihin Yusuf Sudarman, the commission
\nhad printed 922,216 ballot voters and would print another 10,000
\nto anticipate the possible increase of voters after the new
\nregistration.<\/p>\n
Zulfadli said KPUD would distribute all election logistics and
\nFriday which would reach polling stations on Saturday.<\/p>",
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