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NOILE TEHNOLOGII ÎN FORMAREA ŞI UTILIZAREA LISTELOR ELECTORALE. EVOLUŢII ŞI PERSPECTIVE 87
who turned out to vote on election day, thus ensuring the right to vote for broad
categories of people abroad.
The main problem, however, in the compilation of voter lists, is that most of
our citizens abroad are not documented appropriately, and the exact number of
eligible voters is not known. According to research conducted by the International
Organization for Migration and National Bureau of Statistics, this number is
estimated at least at 300,000 people, particularly persons between the ages of
20-50 years. Considering that the total number of voters is ~ 2.4 million and ~ 1.6
million participate in elections, these voters would be one quarter or one fifth of
all active voters. As noted above, the voter lists include only those legally residing
in the destination country. Although the exact number of Moldovan citizens living
abroad is not known, Article 49, Paragraph (3) of the Election Code, provides that
the Central Electoral Commission shall send the ballots to those precinct electoral
bureaus set up outside the country not later than three days before election
day, based on the number of voters registered on the updated voter lists, with a
supplement of not more than 5 percent. The obligation to estimate the number
of voters who will participate in elections and to request a sufficient number of
ballots lies on the precinct electoral bureaus abroad. This, however, does not
prevent the electoral administrators from permanent and usually unfounded
criticism from different stakeholders in the electoral process. However, making
them the only responsible for compiling accurate lists in this complicated situation
is inadmissible, the more so when it is insisted, absolutely reasonably, on opening
up more polling stations. In this respect the example and practice of Bulgaria is
interesting, which took additional measures in the 2006 presidential elections to
ensure that citizens from abroad could vote. The Bulgarian Government adopted
the decision to open polling stations anywhere where at least 100 citizens of this
state had claimed the right to vote in the localities in which they were staying
abroad. To do that, Bulgarian citizens had to submit applications to be excluded
from the voter lists in the country, and be included in special supplementary lists
for the vote abroad. This avoids any accusations of manipulation, making it possible
to know the exact number of ballots to be sent to the places in which the citizens
will vote, allows clarifying the situation regarding persons who are included in the
main lists, additional records of the citizens included in supplementary lists, and
also makes those citizens responsible.
A peculiarity of voting abroad and compiling voter lists procedure is that the lists
indicate the series and number of ID document that allows citizens of Moldova to