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Article: KPU EXPECTS TO KNOW ELECTION RETURNS NINE HOURS AFTER POLLING.
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- ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2004
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Jakarta, March 9 (ANTARA) - The General Elections Commission (KPU) has set a target of collecting the results of the 2004 general elections nine hours after the polling as 82 percent of Indonesia's subdistricts have computers connected to the KPU, a commission member, Chusnul Mar'iyah, said. "I am optimistic that the results will be known by the public nine hours after people have cast their votes on April 5, 2004," Chusnul said at a workshop on the empowerment of information technology in support of the 2004 general election system here Tuesday. According to her, the remaining subdistricts (18 percent of 5,117 subdistricts, or 715) had no ...