Officials register dead to vote

Officials register dead to vote

PADANG, West Sumatra: Election officials in the Mentawai
Islands have registered 18 dead people as voters in Monday's
elections.

The hair-raising news was told by a village chief from Siberut
Island to the West Sumatra branch office of the Independent
Election Monitoring Committee (KIPP) on Wednesday.

"Just imagine," said Malilimok village chief Jonas Panuagai,
"in a single village, 18 people who died years ago have been
registered as voters. I was wondering how many dead people have
been registered in the whole of Mentawai."

Arnez, an official of the West Sumatra election supervisory
committee, promised he would look into the village chief's claim.
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