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Devices will report wrong actions to PEC members
If we do not take into account the reflection time, the vote takes between 10 and 15 seconds. The advantage over paper is that “scrolling” is easier and clearer, you can see the names of the candidates for deputies, and if the voter makes a mistake, you can go back an unlimited number of times. This was explained to “24 Chasa” by the manager of “Ciela Norma” Vesselin Todorov.
The company won the public tender announced by the Central Electoral Commission for the supply of 9,600 voting machines for BGN 35,999,000 excluding VAT. The company is executing a public tender for machine voting for the sixth time. Its partner is the international company Smartmatic, which is the world’s largest manufacturer and supplier of equipment and software for machine voting. The first batch of devices to be used in the parliamentary elections on April 4 in sections with more than 300 voters is already in Sofia.
The voter who decides that he wants to vote with a machine will receive a smart card, which identifies in front of the machine that he is authorized to vote. The card remains in the machine during voting and is removed after the control receipt is printed. This receipt is placed in a special ballot box and the voting ends, Todorov explained.
He assured that all the devices will arrive earlier, about a week before the deadline.
The machines are
produced in
Calm
and they are transported to Bulgaria by plane. All 9600 devices are expected to be available on March 1 and 2.
“The machines have several simultaneous protections, so the security is several degrees higher than traditional paper voting. They have a log book in which every action is recorded and incorrect actions of committee members can be traced. of the section or other offenders. In addition, each vote is encrypted and saved in the memory of the device. The results are simultaneously stored in two independent memories. A control receipt is printed, which allows a very fast paper count by code QR And the voting results are transmitted directly through the portable memory in the computers of the “Information Services” AD without the intervention of people who may make a mistake when counting or entering the results, “said Todorov.
Each president of a sectional commission, which will also have a voting machine, will have two smart cards with which they will start the election process with the machine. One of the smart cards is a spare. For voters, there will be three smart cards that will need to be replaced, that is, one smart card cannot be used to vote twice in a row.
“This avoids the possibility of a voter inserting and withdrawing the same card and thus having several unregulated votes. Actually, one card is a spare, but if only one card remains, the elections cannot continue,” said Todorov .
He explained that they were
provided
about 120
machines
in more than
necessary,
but they were for training and testing rather than reserve.
According to him, it will be forbidden to change machines on election day.
If the power goes out during the vote, the machines will be able to keep running for another 90 minutes.
Approximately 2,400 people will be in charge of the maintenance of the devices and about 2,200 are technicians.
The plans are for the machines to be delivered to each of the sections with more than 300 voters on the day of reflection on April 3. However, transportation details will be agreed with the CEC and the Ministry of the Interior.
Before then, the devices will be audited and certified by the State Electronic Government Agency together with the Bulgarian Institute for Standardization and the Bulgarian Institute of Metrology. This is expected to happen in mid-March.
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