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Technical glitches trouble Indonesia's elections
Technical glitches to the electronic vote-counting system used in Indonesia could delay the elections, the archipelago’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has warned.
Less than ten per cent of votes are counted electronically in Asia’s second largest democracy, but human error and technical problems could mean that the process will have to be done manually.
“The manual method of vote-counting could prove to be faster,” said the President.
The electronic method involves counting the votes for political parties and individual candidates at the polling stations and copying the data on special paper before it is scanned and transmitted electronically to the tabulation centre in the Jakarta.
The manual method, however, involves recording the data on paper, which is then counted and filed.
A delay in announcing the official results could affect preparations for the coming presidential election in July.
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