More voter cards printed

More voter cards printed

BATAM: Batam General Elections Commission (KPU) printed 30,000
more voter registration papers after it discovered that many
eligible voters had not received the forms, which they need to
enable them to vote.

The papers have to be presented to staff at polling stations
as proof of voter eligibility.

"We have printed the papers and will distribute them to people
immediately," said Hardi Hood, a member of Batam KPUD, on
Saturday.

He said a good number of eligible voters in Batam did not get
the papers because of administrative mistakes in the registration
of eligible voters. Some residents were not home when officials
from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) visited them. -- Antara