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The CEC report notes that on October 18 CEC members acted in 2020. October 11 recalculation of the votes of the voters of the Paneriai-Grigiškės electoral district in the elections of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. When recalculating the multi-member ballots counted by the Trakai Vokė constituency assigned to the specified constituency, CEC members suspected that the ranking of fewer than ten ballots submitted for a party could have been done by those who did not complete the ballot themselves. Previously, the CEC reported that a candidate from the Liberal Movement could be classified in violation of the law.
The suspicions of the CEC members were caused by a series of entries in the multi-constitutional bulletin, marking the list of a particular party and ranking the candidate in different colored writing instruments.
The suspicions were reinforced by the fact that all entries in a candidate’s ranking were made in the same color (possibly the same) writing medium, raising suspicions that the entries in a particular candidate’s ranking they can be made by the same person (apparently identical letter) in the party’s pre-election list.
The suspicion was also caused by the fact that in all suspicious bulletins only one ranking entry was made (only the first box was filled), although voters had the opportunity to prioritize 5 candidates. Therefore, it is suspected that in this way, already at the time of the vote counting, additional annotations could have been illegally made on those ballots in which voters voted for a particular party but did not assign priority votes to any candidate.
Therefore, taking into account that there are reasonable suspicions that a crime might be committed in the case in question, the CEC requested the Vilnius County Police Chief Commissioner and the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office to initiate a pre-trial investigation of in accordance with article 173 of the Penal Code.
The president of the commission was dismissed for violations
When the CEC began counting votes from the Paneriai-Grigiškės constituency on Sunday, in one of the districts, Trakai Vokė, roughly 10 percent. vote discrepancy, but did not change the final results of the first round in the single-member constituency After the recount, the head of the electoral commission of the constituency was fired.
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.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Tauras Rutkūnas
Tauras Rutkūnas, a member of the commission that presented the situation after the vote counting, told BNS that the discrepancies of the ballots are within the margin of error in all polling stations, but in the electoral district of Trakai Vokė the situation is ” surprising”
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 determined that there are 22 additional invalid bulletins,” T. Rutkūnas told BNS.
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.
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.
After the vote counting, the CEC decided to remove Saulius Markelevičius, chairman of the Paneriai-Grigiškės district electoral commission.
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.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Agnė Bilotaitė
According to the final data approved by the CEC, A.Bilotaitė received 3,892 votes, R.Balčiūnienė – 1,585, R.Cytacka – 1,492.
Representatives of the Union of Christian Families of the Lithuanian Polish Electoral Campaign (LLRA-KŠS) and Labor Party candidate Artūras Skardžius state that in the event of significant discrepancies in the single-member electoral district of Paneriai-Grigiškė, the votes must be reverted to calculated throughout Lithuania.
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