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NOILE TEHNOLOGII ÎN FORMAREA ŞI UTILIZAREA LISTELOR ELECTORALE. EVOLUŢII ŞI PERSPECTIVE 217
national observers, the recommendations made in the post-electoral analysis. 16
IFES expert has made a series of meetings with stakeholders and key organizations
in the voter registration process: Central Election Commission, Ministry of
Information Technologies and Communication, state chancellery, representatives
of local public administration, civil society and international community (USAID,
UNDP, NDI, IRI).
In the framework of discussions with various interlocutors voter lists have been
called as a “central factor” or “major factor” but also “a big problem” especially
when referring to elections in April and July last year. “Also this time inaccuracy of
the voter lists constituted the biggest problem in the elections” – also mentioned
in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly observation reports on the July
29 th elections 17 . Yet, in the analyzed documents were not found any empirical evidences
on the accuracy and comprehensively of the electoral lists or databases
from which the following were extracted. An empirical index can be the number
of voters included in the supplementary lists. For example, the abovementioned
report of the mission of Council of Europe say: “In the April elections, inaccuracy
of the voter lists has grown up to over 117 000 voters (reaching approximately
8% of the active voters) that were added in the supplementary lists, fact that was
not only disputable, but was contested by the voting process observers”. 18 At the
same time high percentage of voters whose name appears on supplementary lists
may reflect “technical errors” of the local public administration or inaccuracy 19 ,
level of internal migration of the population, potential fraud or a combination of
these factors. As a result, nobody knows exactly which the quality of the voter
lists is. Therefore, in order to know where and what kind of efforts should be
taken to improve voter lists it is needed to collect empirical information on the
accuracy and completeness of the electoral lists. This process may be managed
by the Central Election Commission and performed in a transparent manner that
will involve all stakeholders in the planning, implementing and reviewing of the
16
See: CEC asks modification of electoral code, http://natyapostolova.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/cec-ul-ceremodificarea-codului-electoral/;
Ziarul de gardă, CEC: Analysis of elections, shttp://www.zdg.md/stiri/8911
17
Concil of Europe: Parliamentary Meeting, Observation of the repeated parliamentary election rea in the
Republicof Moldova (29 july 2009), 14 september 2009, Doc. 12009, available at: www.unhcr.org/refworld/
pdfid/4b2f4dd9d.pdf
18
Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly, Observation of the early parliamentary election in the Republic of
Moldova (29 July 2009), 14 September 2009, Doc. 12009, available at: www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b2f4dd9d.
pdf
19
Angela Caraman, Proposals for optimization of legal framework regulating the elections and improve the
electoral process; International conference materials “Management of the electoral process in Moldova. Developments
and Perspectives “, Chisinau 2010