Many Voters Blind to Election Ballot Color

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84 days election countdown
Reporter: andono wibisono

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THE ELECTION April 17 remains 84 days in the normal count. But
if you reduce your holiday, it is no less than 60 days. Practically not long. A
number of legislative candidates and members of the DPD RI went up and down to
the electoral districts respectively to carry out campaigns. Not a few of them
also became ‘officers’ of the KPU explaining the five colors of ballots,
because there was an addition of one ballot for the presidential candidate.

The following is the narrative of candidates and
candidates for the DPD RI 2019 after the campaign and a short break in Palu. It
was Lasnardi Lahi, Legislative Candidate for Election of Parigi Moutong from
PDI-P. According to him, the long period of the campaign turned out not to be
utilized by the KPU structure to PPS / KPPS and PPK to massively disseminate to
voters. He often encounters ignorance of voters about five ballots and the
color of each ballot to choose. ’’The majority I met along the Parigi Moutong
electoral district during the campaign,’ explained brightly.

Wadi, his nickname, is reluctant to speculate. Is
the issue of socialization funds or weak oversight of the KPU for its
structural performance. “That’s the realm of the KPU. What I know is in
the field. “There are still many voters who are still color blind,”
he said. He also worried that the voters and the beginner voters who did not
understand the color of the ballot papers were wrongly voted not because of a
wrong choice. “This is dangerous,” he admitted.

It was also acknowledged by Datu Wajar Lamarauna,
Gerindra Candidate for Dapil Banawa in Donggala Regency. He admitted that there
were still many voters in the electoral district who were still confused about
the color of the ballots for the election. Moreover, there is gray for the
presidential candidates. However, for him, the ballots for the presidential and
DPD votes can still be anticipated because there are photos. “Voters
easily understand because there are photos. 

The difficult ones are ballots for
district legislative candidates, provinces and Republic of Indonesia DPR, not
only using photos and their colors but on average they have not memorized,
‘explained the Chairman of the Donggala Regency Gerindra DPD.

Not infrequently, both Datu and Wadi finally
inevitably contributed to the education and simulation of Pileg during the
campaign. “The goal, so that the voters can really be sure later to vote
correctly,” explained brightly. Datu was the same, reluctant to blame this
only on the KPU and Bawaslu. “This is a political celebration of the nation
and state. As long as we can still do it, just run it, ‘he said.

So what does the Indonesian DPD candidate Yunan
Lampasio says? The candidate with many Hair-white intention taglines admitted
that during the campaign many found difficulties when it was at the stage of
the simulation effort with voters. “Yes, because we are DPD candidates, I
always remind the ballots that the colors are red and there are photos. But all
the districts from the 12 districts that I have campaigned for are generally,
‘he admitted.

Even Yunan dared to make sure, let alone in the
villages or in the villages, in Palu City there were still many voters who did
not yet know the color of the ballots as many as five. “Just try testing.
There must still be some who don’t know. Especially, with post-disaster
conditions like this. So, in fact, this important task of the KPU has first
confirmed whether the voters were clear about the issue of the color of the
ballots, ‘ he said asking.

On the other hand, the large number of billboards
and the installation of APKs that are not in the location determined by the KPU
was not regulated, making the quality of the 2019 Election not much changed
from 2014. “The new KPU Tolitoli has so far been monitoring my campaign.
Don’t follow the rules at the specified point, billboards are lowered, ‘he
said.

All resource persons hoped that the KPU could
actually involve print media, radio and local TV to socialize the stages of the
Election stage. Especially with the largest Election budget in the history of
elections in Indonesia this time, which is almost Rp. 8 trillion. “You can
get all printed daily media collected. Appointed to socialize the stages per
electoral district. With the target of reaching the villages and villages
through the KPU structure. Radio every day increases the number of color ads
for ballots, especially the RRI radio election, but where there are
advertisements about five ballots with massive votes,’ said Wadi, annoyed.**

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