Electoral Malpractice, Integrity of the Election Management Bodies : A Case of 2015 Simultaneous Elections in East Java

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10.2991/icosop-16.2017.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Electoral integrity; Political party

Abstract

This article examines that the integrity issues of the election management bodies (EMBs) become an obstacle for the realization of the electoral integrity. The norms or electoral laws are not strong enough to produce EMBs that have high integrity in the framework of implementing the tasks and authority. In reality, some EMB members involve in the violation cases of the electoral norms. These problems have been found in the simultaneous local elections in East Java where electoral violations committed by the EMBs can be described into three patterns of violations. First, they become partisans for or take sides to particular candidate pairs for regional head. Second, they create policies that decrease political equality for some candidates. Third, they act unprofessionally, be careless in doing their jobs and give rise to legal uncertainty. The cases of electoral violations committed by EMBs illustrate the problem that the integrity of EMBs is still low and needed to improve.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Kris Nugroho
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Electoral Malpractice, Integrity of the Election Management Bodies : A Case of 2015 Simultaneous Elections in East Java
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social and Political Development (ICOSOP 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 139
EP  - 145
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icosop-16.2017.20
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