Repeat Voting in the 2018 Cirebon Mayoral Election: Examining the Contributing Factors and the
Professionalism of Cirebon's Electoral Commission (KPU)
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Results and Discussion
The analysis of Ungovernability in electoral governance in the case of Re-voting in
the 2018 Cirebon Pilwakot was conducted by adopting the theory of electoral malpractice
and electoral institutions related to electoral governance.
Furthermore, this discussion will be divided into two outlines describing the PSU
Pilwalkot Cirebon 2018 process and the Ungovernability of the Cirebon KPU in Voting
and Counting.
Re-voting of the 2018 Cirebon Mayor and Deputy Mayor Election
The existence of the PSU in Pilwalkot Cirebon in 2018 became a public spotlight
(Lan, 2023). This is because the PSU was caused by electoral mal-practices in the form
of mal-procedures with the approach of manipulation of electoral administration or
manipulation in voting and counting, which the KPU of Cirebon City intentionally or
unintentionally carried out. According to Birch (2020), the Cirebon City KPU has
committed at least three (3) points of violation, including Unprofessional election
organizers and election management committees; manipulation of voting, in this case
counting that is not by the rules of election principles (not transparent); and finally,
negligence of duties from vote counting that is not by legal procedures.
The three problems in the case study of the cause of the PSU in Pilwalkot Cirebon
2018 are intertwined, first, in terms of unprofessional election organizers. In this case, the
available human resources who became the committee of the voting and counting of votes
were not capable of causing assignments in the organization of elections that were not
transparent. The connotation is not transparent. The election organizing committee
deliberately opens the "open" ballot box without using the SOP and causes legal errors
(Awaluddin, 2019).
This is evidenced by the acquisition of chronological data from the Constitutional
Court Number 8/PHP decision.KOT-XVI/2018. Candidate number one (1) Bamunas-Edo
(OKE), sued the Cirebon City KPU with allegations of fraud committed in the form of
illegal and unlawful transportation of ballot boxes and demolition of votes. In the
statement and legal testimony by candidate number one in this case stated as the applicant
stated that the act of fraud by moving and dismantling ballot boxes by one of the
organizing committees for Pilwalkot Cirebon 2018, in this case PPS at the urban village
level was carried out in a Structured, Systematic, and Massive (TSM) manner. (Limbong,
2021). Ballot boxes from polling stations were brought to the urban village unlawfully
and illegally dismantled at night after voting (June 27, 2018). The ballot boxes were
stored in Kelurahan overnight, and the next day (June 28, 2018), they were only sent to
the PPK at the Kecamatan level.
The Bamunas-Edo candidate pair has reported this to the District Election
Supervisory Committee (Panwascam), and there has been a recommendation for the
report to conduct a Re-Voting (PSU). However, the recommendation was rejected by the
Cirebon City KPU. Furthermore, there has been fraud committed by the PPS as the
organizer by reducing the Petitioner's votes and increasing the votes of other pairs. There
is a mismatch of ballot user data on the C1-KWK form model, and there is a mismatch
between the Voters present and the number of ballots used.
Candidate number one (1) tried to prove the alleged fraud committed by the KPU
by completing several witnesses, supporting data, and videos containing evidence.
However, these allegations, despite the existence of some supporting data, in the KPU's
statement at the time of the title of the election dispute hearing, stated that what was