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The CEC decided to recalculate the votes in this constituency after it was established during Sunday’s meeting that the ballot papers were presented without signatures, and there were also deficiencies in other documents. The counting of votes from single-member and multi-member constituencies for CEC members lasted from noon to approximately 11 p.m.
Commissioner Tauras Rutkūnas, who presented the situation after the vote counting, stated that in all electoral districts the discrepancies of the ballots are within the margin of error, but in the electoral district of Trakai Vokė “the situation is surprising”: here discrepancies of approximately one-tenth of the votes were found.
According to T. Rutkūnas, the commission members found that 131 votes were not counted in the single-member constituency, they were distributed as follows: 73 votes were not registered for Agne Bilotaitė, Rita Balčiūnienė – 37, Vydas Gedvilas – 33, Liutauras Vičkačkas – 10, Linas Andsis and Rimas nine, for Karolis Stasikėnas – three.
Jonas Viesulis received ten more votes, Andrej Kažuras received nine votes, Kristina Ulevičiūtė-Rogė – four more, Artūras Skardžius and Tomas Keršis – one more.
“It has also been established that there are 22 additional invalid bulletins,” said T. Rutkūnas.
According to him, the vote count in the multi-member constituency revealed that 149 votes had not been counted here, as well as 11 invalid ballots.
“This is what we concluded from what was expressed in the complaint of the candidate Renata Cytacka, that about a hundred and a half votes received by mail were not included in the system, and we found those ballots in bags,” said the member of the CEC.
Photo by Luke April / 15min / Renata Cytacka
The CEC added 53 votes to the Lithuanian Christian National-Democratic Union, 40 to the Freedom Party, 15 to the Lithuanian Peasants and Greens Union, 14 to the Liberal Movement, 11 to the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, five to the Labor Party and three to four to the rest of the parties.
In counting the votes, the CEC members also pointed out that at least nine of the priority votes received by a candidate from the Liberal Movement could be registered by the same person, already after the vote.
“We, along with many members of the commission, have noticed that for a candidate from the Liberal Movement, with one hand, his number appears on the qualifying line on nine ballots. We note that those ballots may not have been qualified at all, the party was voted in different colors, both black and blue, and exactly one color in the classification, a box was filled, a candidate was indicated on exactly one line, ”said the member of the CEC.
He proposed counting all the priority votes cast in the constituency during the next week, a proposal that the commission approved. True, it was decided to recalculate only 5 percent. the priority votes of the parties that cross the threshold.
After the vote counting, the CEC decided to remove Saulius Markelevičius, chairman of the Paneriai-Grigiškės district electoral commission.
“Since so many discrepancies have been identified, a draft has been prepared and it is recommended that the district president be fired for not ensuring that a protocol corresponding to the actual data was signed,” T. Rutkūnas presented the proposal.
The CEC unanimously approved the removal of S. Markelevičius and also commissioned the new constituency president, Piju Savickas, to decide on the future work of the chairman of the Trakai Vokė District Election Commission, Božena Jutkevičienė.
After counting the votes in this constituency, the final result of the first round of elections to the Seimas did not change: Conservative Agnė Bilotaitė and Freedom Party candidate Rita Balčiūnienė entered the second round, followed by Renata Union Candidate of Electoral Action of Christian Families of Lithuania.
According to the final data approved by the CEC, A. Bilotaitė received 3,892 votes, R. Balčiūnienė – 1,585, R. Cytacka – 1,492.
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