JAKARTA (Reuters) -An Indonesian court on Monday rejected challenges from both losing candidates seeking a re-run of February's presidential election and the disqualification of winner Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, bringing an end to all election disputes. The Constitutional Court ruled that there was no evidence of systematic fraud and presidential "meddling", nor that state bodies, regional officials and social assistance had been mobilised to sway polls in the world's third-largest...
Rivals had said February election won by former general was undermined by state interference and unfair rule changesIndonesia’s electoral commission has formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect in a ceremony, after the country’s highest court rejected challenges to his win by rival candidates.Prabowo, 72, a former general dogged by allegations of human rights abuses, won a landslide victory in February’s elections, but his two opponents claimed that the vote had been undermined by...
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Indonesia's Constitutional Court has ruled against a challenge filed by one
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Why have so many Americans lost faith in our election system? Have you lost faith? I would like to discuss how we can fix the loss of trust in our electoral system, but to do so, we must first address the root of the problem.I do not want to discuss the results of 2020 here. But we do need to look at the system that was unleashed during the pandemic: expanded absentee voting, mass mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, chain-of-custody of those ballots, ballot curing. All of these practices cause...
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