Camelia Pasandaran – With legislative elections less than two months away, nothing is being done to correct shambolic final voter enrolment lists other than a frenzied game of finger pointing.

Andi Nurpati, a member of the embattled national General Elections Commission, or KPU, attempted on Tuesday to distance the commission from the original problems with the voter lists, saying all errors were the responsibility of the Election Supervisory Board, or Bawaslu.

Bawaslu responded by admitting partial blame, but accused the government of failing to disburse the funding it needed to verify the voter lists in a timely fashion.

Meanwhile, the KPU has given President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono a week to issue a regulation in lieu of law, or Perpu, to order an immediate revision of the final voter lists, saying if he did not do so, it would issue a new regulation itself.

Andi said that if Bawaslu and the provincial Election Supervisory Committees, or Panwaslu, had worked efficiently before the announcement of the final voter lists, they would have discovered the lists were seriously flawed.

"It is the obligation of Bawaslu to cross-check the voter list data, from the preliminary voter lists, final voter lists and also the additional voter lists," Andi said. "If Bawaslu found unregistered eligible voters, they should have informed us earlier. I doubt whether it supervised the voter list data, which is also part of its responsibility."

Already under fire for delays in its poll preparations, the KPU was again lambasted amid accusations of incompetence last week after admitting to registering 128,000 extra voters in Papua and ordering an immediate halt to the printing of ballot papers for the province.

The discovery – and accusations of widespread voter fraud during the prolonged and controversial East Java gubernatorial election – prompted the KPU to revise and update the final voter rolls. "Some [provincial] Panwaslu reported to us and asked us to revise the voter lists, but Bawaslu remained silent," Andi said.

Bawaslu member Bambang Eka Cahya Widodo responded on Tuesday, saying it was not right for the KPU to blame Bawaslu.

"The problem with inaccurate voter lists is the late government budget," Bambang said. "The officials that update the data in the field could not work as they had no money to do so. The commission should be honest and say that the budget delay has hampered the updating of the voter lists."

Bambang said that some Panwaslus had found voter list inaccuracies on the preliminary voter lists and reported it to the KPU. "But they did not do anything after we reported the findings."