Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Blank box got more votes

I attended an ISEAS seminar about the Indonesian presidential election.

A presenter made a statement that was quite unusual. He said that the quick count for the election of the mayor for Makassar in South Sulawesi showed that the the blank box got more votes than the sole candidate.

Here is the report:
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/06/28/quick-count-shows-blank-box-wins-setting-up-makassar-mayoral-election-in-2020.html

What stuck me was that they did not have a system of walkover, which is practiced in Singapore.

If there is a sole candidate, the voters still have a choice of voting for that candidate or a blank box.

If such a system was practiced in Singapore, I wonder what would be the vote for President Halimah?

1 comment:

fairplay said...

In this case the Indonesian government is doing a good job. Singapore should learn from them and adopt this practice to install unpopular lawmakers through loopholes in our electoral procedure.

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