The Electoral Table Sector 1 intervenes in the scandal of the images broadcast by Antena 3: The voting bags did not leave the room / The presentation, distorted / The man looking between the bags is an employee of the City Council – Essential

• “Considering the information and images that appeared in the public space, which leads us to think that members of the Electoral Table of the Sector1 Circumscription would have facilitated the theft from the security room of the polls, the entire presentation in the public space from of the night of 09.30.2020 is distorted for the purpose of deceiving the public, we inform you the following:
• As a preliminary point, we specify that all the members of the Electoral Table of the Sector 1 Constituency have carried out their activity uninterruptedly, from 09.27.2020, at 06.00 hours and until 09.29.2020, around 03.00 hours. The activity was resumed on 29.09.2020, around 09.30 and completed on 30.09.2020, around 01.30.
• Between 29.09.2020, 03.00 and 30.09.2020, 09:30, when the headquarters of the Electoral Office of the Sector 1 Circumscription was closed, it was guarded by a person from the Gendarmerie. Furthermore, to avoid any suspicion, both the member of the Electoral Board of the Electoral District Sector 1 of the PSD and two candidates of the USR were with the gendarme.
• Access to the room where the electoral materials are stored is made only at the request of the president or deputy of the Electoral Board of the Electoral District Sector 1, the gendarme preparing a delivery report on each occasion on reception of the room.
• In the images presented to the public, images filmed on the night of 09/28/2020, the president of the Electoral Table of the Electoral District Sector 1 appears who, together with the president of the voting table, entered the room to collect the bag containing voters’ signatures. Along with them were also representatives of USR-PLUS, who, in accordance with the provisions of art. 98 par. 4 of Law no. 115/2015, requested to participate in the procedure, a request admitted by the president precisely to guarantee the transparency of the electoral process.
• The activities carried out inside the room had the exclusive objective of collecting a bag with the voters’ signatures list, which was delivered to the president of the voting station. Subsequently, the signatures in the electoral rolls were counted again by the president of the voting table, under the coordination of a member of the Electoral Table of Sectorial Circumscription 1, to verify if they coincide with the signatures recorded in the minutes of the results. of the vote. , according to the provisions of art. 6 of decision no. 98 of 09/15/2020 of the Central Electoral Office.
• The person who appears in the images searching among the bags is part of the auxiliary technical staff of the Electoral Table of the Sector 1 District and works within the Sector 1 Mayor’s Office, being designated in this capacity in accordance with the provisions of art. 121 par. 22 of Law 115 of 2015.
• We point out that in the polling stations where problems were found, the ballots were counted or the signatures of ballots or canceled ballots were counted, in order to verify whether the data recorded in the minutes reflects reality, in accordance with the provisions of the decision. not. 98 of 09/15/2020 of the Central Electoral Office.
• The person who appears in another frame of the film, in a corner of the room and places a bag, is a member of the Electoral Table of Sectorial Circumscription 1, and that bag contains the minutes of an electoral college. The minutes of all the polling stations where there were problems, in the sense that the keys could not be closed, were kept in that corner, later calling the presidents of the polling stations, to appear at the Electoral Table of the District. Sector 1 in order to solve the problems and validate the results of the section.
• The counting of the validly cast votes was carried out exclusively within that room, in the presence of the president of the voting station and at least one member of the Electoral Board of the District 1 constituency. In some cases, the president was accompanied by members of the voting station. In no case did bags with ballots leave the room.
• In addition, after the presence of a large number of presidents of polling stations, candidates and observers within the Electoral Table of Circumscription Sector 1, through the addresses of 09.29.2020, the President of the Electoral Table of Circumscription Sector 1 The additional Gendarmerie requested none of the guard posts located in the vicinity of the room where the ballots, lists and supplies were kept.
• Regarding the presence of Mr. Dan Barna within the Electoral Board of Electoral District Sector 1, we specify that he appeared on the night of September 28/29, 2020 to request information on the status of verification of the act of electoral results, possibility the one that was in the power of any person, since in that room there was also the record of the Electoral Table of the Electoral District 1 Sector. In addition, the people who appear in the image broadcast in the public space are part of the auxiliary technical staff which deals with the registration of the polling stations that has been completed. “

Investigators have opened a new criminal case in the electoral fraud scandal in Sector 1, this time following the images released by Antena 3 on Wednesday night, in which several people appear walking in the presence of the gendarmes towards the urns. from a room in the Sector 1 Circumscription Bureau, an argument for PSD to accuse USR-PLUS of fraud and request the vote recount.
The spokesman for the District 1 Court Prosecutor’s Office, Călin Bogdan, declared this Thursday, for HotNews.ro, that a criminal case was opened today for attempting the crime of falsifying electoral documents and records. The criminal case -in which investigations are carried out in rem (by writing) was registered based on an ex officio notification, as a result of the appearance in the public space of the video recording in the room where the bags are kept. vote, said the representative of the Prosecutor’s Office. .
This is the second criminal case opened under the coordination of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of First Instance, the first opened on September 28 after Clotilde Armand and her team accused the current mayor of the PSD, Daniel Tudorache, of fraud, alleging that the reports had been stolen. . In this case, real investigations are being carried out for falsifying electoral documents and records.
Antena 3 transmitted on Wednesday night images in which several people walked, in the presence of the gendarmes, towards the voting bags from a room of the Sector 1 District Bureau. Gabriela Firea quickly took the images on her Facebook page and asks for elections to be repeated, accusing fraud, while Clotilde Armand, who proclaimed her victory in the Sector 1 Town Hall, in turn accuses a “Fake News” because the images are from the counting process.
The images distributed by Gabriela Firea were supposedly captured, according to Antena 3, by the surveillance camera in the room where the bags with the votes of Sector 1 were kept, in the building of the Circumscription Office of Sector 1, and show some people inside together gendarmes. The images were recorded from Monday to Tuesday.