noile tehnologii în formarea şi utilizarea listelor electorale ... - Cec.md

dr. Igor BOTAN,
Executive Director, Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT)
When preparing my speech, I reached a conclusion that the digitalization of the
electoral process in Moldova has become close to our hearts, the discussions we
have today have lasted for some time and if we refer to international experience,
15 years ago the problem was already on the agenda in Moldova. It was about the
development of the civil registry, which Mr Ciornii referred to. For 15 years we
have been discussing about three levels of access to the civil, integrated, single
registry, etc. Access in three levels for electoral bodies, access to information that
is usually included in voter lists, access for tax authorities, for the verification of
how the citizens guarantee the payment of taxes and based on properties, and
access for police and special bodies with regard to delinquencies and so on.
In general, what we were discussing 15 years ago in Moldova we already have, I
think this database that the Ministry of Information Technologies holds was developed
according to all modern standards, the issue that arose, however, is that
the concept developed by the CEC and approved by the Parliament in Law 101,
provides that the information on voters must be imported from the database of
the Ministry to the database developed by the CEC. It is a decision that is part of
a concept and I do not think there could be major problems and debates on the
usefulness of this data transfer. The only problem that arises relates to how both
databases will be updated, and the efficiency of the civil records service, which,
judging by the views expressed by experts, can cause problems, not very serious
ones, because the only problem is related to the terms of information modification,
to which I have referred.
The big problem, in my view, will appear in a different area. Moldova is different
and when we borrow concepts which work very well somewhere else, in Moldova
they may function not so well, given that the society is different. It is a divided