Viral Ballot Paper with Mixed Candidate Numbers, Here's the Explanation from the KPU

Viral Ballot with Mixed Candidate Numbers, Here's KPU's Explanation

Viral Ballot Paper with Mixed Candidate Numbers, Here's the Explanation from the KPU

Dream - Commissioner of the General Election Commission of the Republic of Indonesia (KPU RI), Idham Holik, responded to the viral video showing allegedly misplaced ballot papers for the 2024 Presidential Election with the candidates' numbers being swapped.

"Surat Suara Tidak Benar" translates to "Invalid Ballot" in English.

Idham explained that the ballot papers with swapped candidate numbers are not true. According to him, all ballot papers printed by the KPU are in accordance with the regulations of each candidate's number. "So, therefore, the differences mentioned are completely untrue and lead to disinformation," said Idham to merdeka.com, Monday, February 5, 2024.

Idham asserts that all ballot papers produced by the KPU for the purpose of voting at the polling station (TPS) are in accordance with the KPU's decision regarding the appointment of presidential and vice-presidential candidates.

"We emphasize that the KPU has never printed or produced ballots that do not comply with the KPU's Decision on Presidential and Vice Presidential Election Participants."
he said.

"Dream.co.id."

"Heboh Surat Suara Nomor Urut Paslon Tertukar" translates to "Commotion as Ballot Papers with Candidate Numbers are Swapped."

In the video circulating on social media, it shows a sheet similar to a ballot paper with images of the three pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates. However, uniquely, the images do not correspond to the predetermined order set by the KPU. In that viral video, the Prabowo-Gibran pair is actually placed at number 03. Similarly, the Ganjar-Mahfud pair is placed at number 02.

The appearance of the inappropriate ballot is one of them uploaded by the Tiktok account @tentaranetizen.id.

"Viral on Social Media"

The voice recording video went viral and also spread on various other social media platforms. Not only that, the video also garnered various responses from netizens in the comment section.

"Netizen's Comment"

"\u201cI can't... if I get something like this, I will immediately protest and ask for a replacement with the correct ballot,\u201d wrote the account @AKU NETIZEN. "\u201cDon't vote yet, report it to the security personnel \ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udc4d\u2665\ufe0f,\u201d wrote the account @indah Rozanty. "\u201ci will ask for a replacement for this card if I get it when I am about to vote... then I will vote\u2026\u201d wrote the account @caahyaningsih0567."

@tentaranetizen.id surat suara pemilihan presiden 2024, surat suara nomor 2 di tukar dengan nomor 3, mending tidak usah ganti presiden baru 2024, kalau KPU tidak niat menyelenggarakan pemilihan presiden 2024 #pilpres2024😁🇮🇩🙏🏻 ♬ Powerful songs like action movie music - Tansa

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