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Conferinţa internaţională.
NOILE TEHNOLOGII ÎN FORMAREA ŞI UTILIZAREA LISTELOR ELECTORALE. EVOLUŢII ŞI PERSPECTIVE
participate in voting in parliamentary elections organized outside Moldova and
which can be exclusively the Moldovan citizen’s passport or sailor’s book. But,
in the case of Moldovan citizens most of whom are illegaly on the territory of
another state, the validity of those documents is another problem. Thus, in order
to minimize the negative effects of this reality, the Central Electoral Commission
allowed Moldovan citizens to participate in elections regardless of their legal
status and based on expired passport.
In this respect, one of the priorities of the Commission is the implementation of the
State Automated Information System “Elections”, which was described above by
Mr. Iurie Ciocan. Implementing this system will facilitate the electoral process, will
increase voting transparency, and will prevent multiple voting. It will also enable to
check the voter lists online. In this sense, the inclusion in the draft law on amending
and supplementing the Electoral Code of provisions allowing the display the voter
lists on the website to be checked by the voters themselves, including by our conationals
who are abroad, is highly welcome. In this regard, it must be noted that
these data are personal, which needs to be taken into account when this option
and the appropriate software will be implemented, providing opportunities to each
individual citizen to verify their presence in the list and to request any changes or
additions thereto, presenting, as required by law, evidence that would justify that.
An important thing about out-of-country voting and activities determined by this
process is that the turnout has increased lately. If in the elections of February 27,
1994, only 1948 citizens participated in voting, then in those of 5 April 2009 - 16
805 citizens, and on 29 July 2009 - 17 484 citizens, or an increase of about 2 times
compared to 2005, when 10,018 Moldovan citizens turned out to vote. Let us remember
the situation of July 29, 2009 (by the way, a weekday), when the CEC met
the needs of the people who wanted to vote and extended the voting hours until
22.00 local time for the polling station within the Consulate General of the Republic
of Moldova in Bologna, Italy and the one within the Embassy of the Republic
of Moldova in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Thus, the normative, informative and educational actions and measures should
be continued and even intensified by Moldovan authorities and the CEC in order
to facilitate and encourage our citizens’ access to the electoral process. Based on
the experience of the two consecutive elections held in 2009, we believe there
is room for further optimization of electoral procedures, which will contribute to
improving voter lists’ compilation and encourage out-of-country voting.