Zaytun residents not interested in revote

Zaytun residents not interested in revote

BANDUNG: Registration for a presidential revote at the Al-
Zaytun Islamic boarding school in Indramayu regency closed on
Thursday with none of the school's residents signing up to recast
their ballots.

The revote at the boarding school was scheduled after 24,800
people voted in the July 5 presidential election at polling
stations in the school, despite the fact that only 11,565 people
were registered to cast ballots at the stations. This huge
discrepancy in the number of registered voters and actual voters
resulted in allegations of election fraud.

Because none of residents registered for the revote, the West
Java General Election Commission (KPUD) has decided that only the
11,565 residents whose names are on the earlier registration list
will be eligible to take part in the revote, which will be held
on as still unspecified date, said KPUD spokesman Heri Suherman
in Bandung on Friday. -- JP