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NOILE TEHNOLOGII ÎN FORMAREA ŞI UTILIZAREA LISTELOR ELECTORALE. EVOLUŢII ŞI PERSPECTIVE 105
These categories include voters who are temporarily located in another place
than their permanent residence and the lists are compiled by the management
of those institutions, submitting them to the local authorities. In the absence of a
mechanism that would provide for the exclusion of these citizens from the voter
lists from the place of their permanent residence, these people appear twice
in the lists. In this context, two problems need to be solved. First, exclude the
double entries (by mutual exchange of data, and after the implementation of the
Electronic Register of Voters, an automatic identification will be possible), and,
secondly, with regard to the quality of these lists (a data revision is not provided,
such as in the case of door-to-door verification by local authorities and precinct
electoral bureaus).
The increased interest with regard to voter lists has imposed for the need to use
new tools of their verification. And here we should mention the use of „Check
yourself in the voter list” software, launched in July 2009, a project implemented
with the support of the Soros Foundation.
That project was implemented in two stages. In the first stage, the information on
PEB addresses and contact details was systemized; by typing their address, voters
could find out where they should vote.
In the second stage, the project provided a verification of voter lists on the website
of the Chisinau Mayor’s Office. Voters could check on-line if they were in the
lists, and also how many people were registered under their address. The result
exceeded the expectations, the software was accessed by 4000-6000 unique visitors
daily. The statistics show that over 80,000 persons (unique visitors), or about
14% of voters checked the voter lists on-line in that period. Also, voters who did
not find themselves on the lists, could communicate their data, through an online
form, based on which, after verification, the respective changes were operated
in the lists. The software also informed the citizens about the examination
stage of the request submitted online.
The project was appreciated positively, especially for the fact that it guaranteed
the participation of citizens in lists’ verification in the compilation stage.
In the perspective of the implementation of the Electronic Voter Register, the
solutions for the above-mentioned issues will guarantee the efficiency of this
compartment and will improve the quality of voter lists.