“Hundreds of thousands of election workers dead of exhaustion”
“Ten days after Indonesia held the world’s largest one-day options have over 270 campaign workers died. Most of the deaths are according to the country’s electoral commission related to the exhaustion symptoms after long working days where the ballots from 193 million voters were counted by hand.”
“the Election, held april 17, was the first time that Indonesia’s combined presidential, legislative and regional elections during the same day with the aim to reduce costs. Each voter could fill in up to five ballots and 800 000 polling stations are kept open.”
“in Addition to the 272 deaths has almost 1 900 election workers become sick and the ministry of finance in the country is working on a solution to compensate the relatives of valarbetarna, according to a spokesperson for the electoral commission.”
