The Local Observation Coalition reports that the instructions and
manuals distributed at the Election Administration Zonal Commissions are
not the same with the ones in the voting centers. There are
discrepancies during the ballot counting process.
“Since the Central Election Commission is made of four members, and for the instructions we need five members, we cannot change the instructions regarding the procedures and how the electoral materials will be administered. The instructions of the Central Election Commission, on which the manuals have been built and were sent to Commissioners, are in fact based on the instructions of 2009, which are considered to be still effective. But the legal framework has now changed. The instructions that foresee how the electoral materials and ballot boxes will be administered by the ballot count groups, is based on the fact that the box is firstly registered and opened. But the new Electoral Code foresees that the box of the voting materials will be open only if there are discrepancies with the figures”, declared Dritan Taullai, representative of the Local Observation Coalition.
The observers’ coalition notes with great concern and recommends the political parties to not use militants in the election administration commissions, and those of the voting centers, and also to not change them to the last minute.
“A big problem here has been the changing of Commissioners in the last minute, and this appeal is made to the political parties right in this moment, so that they can diminish this phenomenon to the minimum”, declared Gerta Meta, from the local observers coalition.
The coalition of local observers will have 1500 observers on terrain during the voting and ballot counting process on the June 23rd elections.
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