318 election officials die in Indonesia

[Tianmo]

WTF, count votes count until die, the condition there must be real bad!!!     

 

 

 

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/318-election-officials-die-more-than-2000-ill-after-indonesias-mammoth-single-day-poll

 

 

JAKARTA - Kindergarten teacher Tursina Maya's days were packed on and around the election on April 17, the biggest single day poll held anywhere in the world and one of the most complicated with 240,000 candidates running for office.

For the first time ever, Indonesians were simultaneously taking part in presidential as well legislative polls.

A day ahead of the poll, Ms Tursina and her neighbours, who were tasked to manage their polling station in North Jakarta, held meetings, set up a tent, desks and instruction signs. They worked tirelessly from morning to midnight.

On D-day, she continued working the clock, administering to voters before proceeding to the more daunting task of counting ballots.

The next day, the 42-year-old mother ended up in hospital and had to be warded for four nights because of exhaustion and elevated blood pressure.

She was, however, luckier than Abdul Rohim, 40, a security officer assigned to a polling station in Bekasi, West Java. He was admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), suffering from exhaustion and heart pain. He died subsequently.

 

 

As at 8am on Tuesday (April 30), 318 polling station committee officials have died and 2,232 fell ill, said the general election commission (KPU), which oversaw the polls.

 

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"Many of them had to stay up through two nights and not while they had coffee to watch football games, but while they were under pressure amid efforts of ensuring there was no miscounting," said Mr Pramono Ubaid Tantowi, a KPU commissioner, on Tuesday.

After polls closed on April 17, ballots were first manually counted at more than 800,000 polling stations. The counting at many polling stations lasted until past midnight and officials then had to oversee the transport of ballot boxes to collection points, which were plagued with long queues, adding to delays. The results of the polling stations were then tallied at the sub-district, district and provincial offices before ending up in the national vote tally in Jakarta.

Election officials were tasked to monitor closely each stage of the counting process.

A normal person would be able to work hard for eight straight hours and then stay awake for the following eight hours before he has to get six hours' sleep, Mr Pramono said, citing medical doctors.

Under the existing election law, manual vote counting at a polling station must be completed within the same day (midnight deadline) and a Supreme Court decree stipulates it could be extended for 12 hours conditionally but without any break in the vote-counting period, Mr Pramono noted.

"I started my day around 5am and wrapped up around the same time the next day," said Ms Tursina, stressing that staying up all night working was the part that caused her physical stamina to drop.

After finishing vote counting at around midnight, she oversaw the transport of ballot boxes to a collection point until 3am.

She recalled that in the last election in 2014, when the legislative poll was held a few months earlier ahead of the presidential one, manual vote counting mostly finished by 5pm.

Mr Abdul Rohim's widow, Madam Masnun, 38, said her husband felt exceptionally tired after the Wednesday polls and rested at home. He was rushed to a clinic on Friday and died on the subsequent Wednesday (April 24).

"On Monday (April 22) he said he felt pain on the chest. Then he did not speak at all until Wednesday," Ms Masnun told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar in Jakarta held by Ombudsman Indonesia.

The seminar was the beginning of a study of the 2019 election by the independent agency overseeing public services in the country.

[Watwheels]

What a logistical nightmare.

Their population 264mil but dunno how many are eligible but I assume most are.

800,000 polling stations, my gawd.

I think if the ballot boxes were to line up in football fields, how many would it take to fill up?

 

If you look at Philippines population, estimate around 105 mil.

M'sia: 30+ mil

No wonder ppl calls us a little red dot.

 

 

2 nights of vote counting with little to no rest. Talk about no welfare.

They must have lost quite a number of teachers or have taken mc since most of the officials are teachers.

Edited May 1, 2019 by Watwheels

[Wt_know]

usa 327M population

no problem to count ah trump kor votes leh

it’s the overall polling stations and vote counting process that matters

Edited May 1, 2019 by Wt_know

[Tianmo]

its just sad, to have to die from vote counting.

 

This one is really die for the country. 

 

But can this be prevented? I really think the working condition must be damn farking bad..  

[Kusje]

why cannot take mc and stop halfway?

 

pay too good? or will kanna tekan?

 

worse than singapore ns!

[Icedbs]

Sure this is not fake news?

 

It is unimaginable to have mass death during a election over vote counting. 

[Vratenza]

Conspiracy theory..... 

 

These vote counters are poisoned such that the boxes they are in charge of mysteriously goes unaccounted for and suddenly got put back before anyone notices during the confusion and hysteria of a sudden death. 

 

[Mustank]

Rip :(

[Mockngbrd]

f**king dodgy

[mersaylee]

  On 5/2/2019 at 1:23 AM, Vratenza said:

Conspiracy theory.....

 

These vote counters are poisoned such that the boxes they are in charge of mysteriously goes unaccounted for and suddenly got put back before anyone notices during the confusion and hysteria of a sudden death.

Either way... the deceased had lost their lives for a noble cause - to diligently count what the eligible voters had voted for.

 

R.I.P.

[Ct3833]

  On 5/1/2019 at 11:13 AM, Watwheels said:

What a logistical nightmare.

Their population 264mil but dunno how many are eligible but I assume most are.

800,000 polling stations, my gawd.

I think if the ballot boxes were to line up in football fields, how many would it take to fill up?

 

If you look at Philippines population, estimate around 105 mil.

M'sia: 30+ mil

No wonder ppl calls us a little red dot.

 

 

2 nights of vote counting with little to no rest. Talk about no welfare.

They must have lost quite a number of teachers or have taken mc since most of the officials are teachers.

they should learn from SingPool how to automate all these vote counting, cant be more complicated than SingPool betting tickets. 

[Mustank]

https://youtu.be/gLbJznLoo80

[Vratenza]

This kind of casualty rate from physical exhaustion we are probably looking at concentration labour camps or POW camps. But we are not. This is just a vote count for goodness sake. 

 

Now the media report is too one sided, and too quick to assign the cause to exhaustion.

 

I do hope at least they do some autopsy on a sample of the deceased with blood chemical analysis to make sure no foul play.

 

RIP for those who died for democracy... Be it exhaustion or foul play. 

 

 

[Matrix0405]

  On 5/2/2019 at 11:30 PM, Vratenza said:

 

This kind of casualty rate from physical exhaustion we are probably looking at concentration labour camps or POW camps. But we are not. This is just a vote count for goodness sake. 

 

Now the media report is too one sided, and too quick to assign the cause to exhaustion.

 

I do hope at least they do some autopsy on a sample of the deceased with blood chemical analysis to make sure no foul play.

 

RIP for those who died for democracy... Be it exhaustion or foul play. 

 

 

 

Agree. For a healthy adult, it is very hard to die from exhaustion, esp from light duty over 2 days. 70% chance ST feeding readers with fake news.