© Lily Touchek
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The Central Election Commission (CEC) decided today to count the control receipts in all polling stations. Twelve people voted in favor (four representatives of GERB, three from BSP, two from MRF and three from “There is such a people”), and three – Tsvetozar Tomov, Lyubomir Georgiev (Democratic Bulgaria) and Rositsa Mateva (Stand up BG! We are coming) , spoke out against.
Thus, a little more than 24 hours before the vote, the CEC changed the rules, after it had already decided to count the receipts in 30% of the sections.
The commission had once decided to manually count 100% of the receipts, but the decision fell in court.
His argument was that the only document certifying the result of the vote was the protocol, which was printed by the machine. The counting of the receipts is only control and cannot be entered in the protocols. The Supreme Magistrates accepted that the CEC has the right to conduct a control census in any volume it deems appropriate, but this census cannot affect the election result.
Now the 100% count is back on the agenda due to the information from the last days about the larger number of machines imported in the country and the suspicions of GERB that manipulations of the election result are being prepared through them and through fake counting cards. The proposal for this was made by Emil Voinov (BSP)
After that, Rositsa Mateva proposed an additional audit by sampling due to the expected number of errors of the enumerators, but it was not accepted. Thus, the control receipts will be counted manually in all sections where there are machines in the country, abroad and abroad.
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