The dead support DPD candidates<\/p>\n
MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: The use of identity cards of
\ndeceased people are among irregularities found in applications by
\ncandidates here to contest next year's election of West Nusa
\nTenggara's Regional Representatives Council (DPD).<\/p>\n
Members of the General Elections Commission (KPU) in the
\nprovince said on Friday they had uncovered several other
\nviolations by candidates who are soliciting support for their DPD
\nbids that requires a minimum quota of 2,000 copies of identity
\ncards (IDs).<\/p>\n
In West Lombok regency, a verification team of the provincial
\nKPU found that at least two IDs of dead people were used by
\ncandidates as evidence of support for their DPD bids.<\/p>\n
The IDs were taken from a migrant workers recruitment firm in
\nthe regency, the KPU members said.<\/p>\n
They added that some West Lombok DPD aspirants also used the
\nIDs of local citizens who were working in Malaysia or had become
\nMalaysian citizens.<\/p>\n
In Bima regency, a campaign team for the candidates visited
\ndealerships to \"buy\" IDs belonging to car or motorcycle buyers at
\nRp 5,000 per copy, they said.<\/p>\n
Normally, prospective buyers have to give copies of their IDs
\nin order to buy cars or motorcycles in installments.<\/p>\n
The local KPU members said other candidates also used IDs of
\npoor people collected by the local administrations as
\nrequirement to get cheap rice.<\/p>\n
Provincial KPU chairman Mahali Fikri said people, who found
\nthat their IDs had been used by DPD candidates without their
\nconsent, should report it to the police.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the provincial KPU announced that 40 percent of the
\n135,000 IDs to support 46 DPD candidates were damaged, illegal or
\nhad expired. --JP<\/p>",
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