Officials say more than 270 election staff died in the 10 days after Indonesia held the world's biggest single-day vote.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — More than 270 election staff died in the 10 days after Indonesia held the world's biggest single-day vote, an official said Sunday.
The April 17 elections were the first time the country of 260 million people combined the presidential vote with national and regional parliamentary ones, with an aim to cut costs. But conducting the eight-hour vote in a country that stretches more than 3,000 miles from its western to eastern tips proven to be both a Herculean logistical feat and deadly for officials, who had to count ballot papers by hand.Daeng Mansur / AFP - Getty Images file
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