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Tanya Tsaneva, member and spokesperson of the Central Election Commission. Footage and video Facebook / CEC
In one section of Burgas, voters voted with black pens instead of the blue ones required by law. The reason is that the Burgas commissions received pens written in black yesterday. Most of them were replaced before the start of Election Day, but in one section the black pens still remained. Votes in which the ballot has already been cast with a black ballpoint pen will be withdrawn and counted, as the violation is not the fault of the voters. This was announced by CEC spokesperson Tanya Tsaneva in the first briefing on Election Day.
There is no data yet on the country’s participation at 10. We hope that at 12 o’clock we can announce it, Tsaneva said.
“Due to an error in the electronic bulletin with the numbers in the preferences of one of the candidate lists, the CEC had to make a cardinal decision and stop automatic voting in the entire Veliko Tarnovo constituency,” explained Tsaneva.
Thus, machine voting was suspended in some 320 sections of Veliko Tarnovo.
The problem is that the first three candidates on the list turned out to be the last. The fourth registered on the list was the first in the electronic newsletter. The mistake was made at the opening of election day by printing the zero protocol from the machines, but nobody paid attention. It is clear that there is a problem only when the coalition that registered the list gives a signal, said the other CEC spokesman, Dimitar Dimitrov.
He assured that the votes cast by machine will be counted as the main ones, it will be the arrangement of the list, as recorded in the DEC.
Dimitrov recalled that the sections open to vote are 12,630. Of the 6,986 registered candidates for deputies, 2,073 are women and the remaining 4,913 are men.
There are 1,035 registered candidates in two electoral districts, compared to 668 in the previous parliamentary elections.
28,526 are registered vote defenders, 30 organizations with 3,372 observers and 6 international organizations with 129 observers. Five sociological agencies will conduct surveys at the entrance of the sections with 1,400 interviewers.
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