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NOILE TEHNOLOGII ÎN FORMAREA ŞI UTILIZAREA LISTELOR ELECTORALE. EVOLUŢII ŞI PERSPECTIVE
has the right to vote or not. Also, the paper system allows for the possibility of
multiple voting, any citizen can go to a polling station on an older residence address
with an ID card and vote, and after that go to another polling station where
they are obliged by the list to vote, but in the European Parliament elections; in
presidential elections every Romanian citizen can vote at any polling station, we
have over 18,000 polling stations. Therefore, if they want, they can go to a polling
station and then go to another one and vote on the supplementary list and so on.
In the elections for the European Parliament, last year, according to the law, the
PEA had the task of detecting attempted multiple voting.
Unfortunately, voter lists are not like those presented by our colleagues from the
Bosnian CEC. We have some voter lists, just some tables with a very small space
for the signature. We had about 5 million people turnout with over 500,000 who
voted on the supplementary voter lists. After verification, you realize that verification
for such a big candidate could only be done automatically, so, after verification,
it was found that about 12,000 people may have voted more than once.
Why it is possible, because of some not very clear measures on completing these
lists in the signature field, where the person should sign after voting. All sorts of
claims appear in these fields, eg removed, mobile box, etc. An automated system
cannot distinguish between a signature of a person and a word, eg removed. Also
there were people who signed elsewhere or people who signed in several fields,
we had to report all these cases, further leaving the judiciary to investigate and
come to solutions which, unfortunately, take some time. Currently, as we know,
they have verified about 500 cases.
We managed to verify, as I said, verifications lasted over six months, after six
months these verifications do not have a very important result once the mandates
have been distributed already. Even if we find that all those people voted
more than once, we cannot say that should cancel the election, we must take
someone’s mandate, we will never know who they voted for, we will not know
which way the election was rigged. It is therefore very important to prevent the
multiple voting, not try to solve it afterwards.
As I said at the beginning, on Sunday we will try a project which consists in digitalization
of polling stations, specifically 61 polling stations in Bucharest, from
college 19. The main objectives of this project are: to prevent illegal voting, and
here I mean not only multiple voting, but also voting by those who have not attained
18 years of age. When we checked the registrations after the European