SP: We proved manipulation in Tirana

28/06/2011 19:55

The Socialist Party claims that thanks to the video footages that were
taken during the counting process in the Zonal Election Commission, it
has proved in an uncontestable way that there have been manipulations
that have damaged the electoral process in Tirana, causing the
inconsistency between the number of total voters and the total ballots
that were found in the boxes.

The videos were given to the Socialist Party after a request that they made to the Central Election Commission.

As reported by Top Channel this Monday, a chosen team with mathematicians, lawyers and economists scanned the entire video images of the voting centers, proving this way the inconsistency.

According to the opposition, this inconsistency that damages the constitutional principle “one elector, one vote”, is a clear manipulation that produced the result which showed the Democratic Party candidate, Lulzim Basha, leading with 93 votes.

The Socialist say that with these facts they have found the answers to some questions: why the reports that were filled after the vote counting process, filmed in every voting center, do not match with the final result that was tabulated by CEC? Were the miscast ballots caused by a human error, or has there been a clear election manipulation that it is in fact a criminal act?

The number of electors at Municipal Unit 3 is 677, while the number of the total ballots that were found is 679, two ballots more than voters.

When CEC started to open the boxes by order of the Electoral College, on June 13th, there were 17 invalid ballots at the box for Mayor, two of which did not belong to the Mayor box. They were sent to the respective boxes and the sum was added to the summary table of the Central Election Commission. With this action, CEC fulfills the order of the Electoral Commission, by balancing the number of voters, 677, with the number of total ballots, 662 valid and 15 invalid.

The real result is 677 ballots, as recorded by the camera of the Zonal Election Commission 47, on counting table no.2 at 02:16, fulfilling this way the constitutional principle one elector, one vote.

By opening the other three boxes at CEC, six other miscast ballots for Mayor were found, two of which for Rama and four for Basha.

CEC attached these 6 ballots to the 677 ballots, by changing the result of this voting center to 683.

Six ballots is the difference between the number of voters and ballots, which were filmed in this Zonal Election Commission.

For these 6 ballots, the Socialist Party declared that they have been inserted out of the process, by changing this way the voters’ will.

On May 11th, at 21:28, in voting center 1941, Zonal Election Commission 52, Municipal Unit 8, the camera has recorded 517 ballots for Mayor, same as the number of voters, from which 501 are valid and 16 are invalid.

These numbers change after the other boxes were opened in CEC, where were found four ballots for Mayor, all of them for Basha.

The ballots are attached to the filmed result of 517 ballots that were found in the boxes.

The final summary table for this voting center, approved by CEC on May 23rd, the result is 521 ballots or 4 more than the number of voters, without giving explanations where these ballots had come from, when the filming of the Zonal Election Commission shows that the counting process ended with 517 ballots, as written in the report.

The Socialist Party says that such problems have been found in 40 voting centers, which will be part of the proofs that will be used during the phase of appeal at CEC and the Electoral College, and that according to them proves the process manipulations. They say that these proofs will be sent to the prosecution too.

The added ballots by CEC, in un unexplainable way, according to the opposition has produced the logical paradoxes of the summary table results, where the number of ballots is inconsistent with the number of voters.

A clear violation, the Socialists say, of the constitutional principle “one elector, one vote”.

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