Mass replacement of members of sectional election commissions is reported by the Regional Election Commission in Blagoevgrad. After more than 500 SEC members were replaced in just one day in the last elections in June, now the replacement is again massive and it is happening after the trainings for the SEC members have already been conducted. The chairman of RIC-Blagoevgrad, Martin Busarov, warned about this, quoted by BNT.
During the past three days, the mandatory trainings for the members of sectional committees for the upcoming parliamentary elections on October 27 were held. All members from the 14 municipalities participated in the training, where they received explanations and guidelines for their work during the elections. After the end of the training, however, RIC receives dozens of requests to replace already trained people.
"I.e. trainings have passed and we are still doing a solid number of replacements for members who have not been to these trainings. You yourself understand that this presupposes errors in processing the protocols. And a corresponding delay in the activity of the RIC station in the hours after the election day, when we expect here in Blagoevgrad to receive the protocols with the results", commented Martin Busarov, who is the chairman of the RIC-Blagoevgrad.
According to him, the frequent elections in recent years have tired and disgusted the people involved in their conduct.
"Apparently the parties have a problem with the people to be on the premises on election day. What I can say at the moment is that 10 to 12 decisions each, i.e. between 10 and 12 municipalities we pronounce at each of our meetings and allow changes. Just for reference, 83 people came from one political party on Saturday for one municipality out of a total of 139. That is. nearly 100% of the staff is replaced after the training, and this is actually a prerequisite for poor preparation of these members," Busarov added.
The paper ballots for the upcoming vote arrived in Blagoevgrad today. They were escorted to a warehouse where they will remain until Thursday. Then, together with the rolls of specialized paper for machine voting and the necessary papers, they will travel to the municipalities. The regional governor, Georgi Dinev, said that he had sent a letter to the mayors of municipalities to destroy the remaining machine voting rolls from the previous elections.
"Three weeks ago, we had warned the mayors with a reminder letter, we received assurances from absolutely everyone that the rolls were destroyed. Respectively, we also sent, although this was an obligation of the municipalities themselves, but in spite of everything, we also confirmed to Minister Karadimov that the rolls from the previous elections with the specialized paper for machine voting have been destroyed", added the regional governor.
Voting in the upcoming elections in Blagoevgrad District will take place in 442 sections. In 91 of them there are less than 300 inhabitants and there will be voting only on paper. 21 are the sections for people with permanent disabilities.