The CEC has received the protocols from the inspection of the election papers from the Constitutional Court. This was announced by the CEC spokesperson during the meeting of a commission, quoted by bTV.
The documents are two boxes that were accepted by the CEC. A technical medium has also been sent. Currently, the boxes are stored in a room sealed with paper tape. The Commission accepted the technical medium to be
Sevinch Solakova noted that the Constitutional Court has not sent the determinations with which it agrees with the conclusions of the expert examinations during the inspection of 2204 sections.
„The CEC will not count ballots again. It will not check election papers and materials. The CEC will do what it has been assigned, in accordance with the Election Code“, added the commission's spokesperson Rositsa Mateva.
The determination of the Constitutional Court will be sent to “Information Services“, after which the protocols sent by the Constitutional Court will be processed.
The computer processing of the results is carried out by “Information Services“. After that, calculations will be made according to the methodology of the Electoral Code, after which the result will be sent to the Constitutional Court, the members of the CEC decided.
On January 26, the Constitutional Court published a ruling, which ordered the establishment of the total number of ballots in the ballot boxes, the number of paper ballots and ballots from machine voting, the number of valid votes, the number of invalid votes, the distribution of votes by candidate lists, as well as which parties and coalitions received no less than four percent of the valid votes in the country and abroad based on the conclusions of the expertise after checking the election papers in 2,204 polling stations.
As a result of the accepted graphic expertise, the Court established that in 46.75% of the checked polling stations there was a change in the number of valid votes distributed by candidate lists, and separately from this there was a change and in the remaining compared data.
It was found that in 35.78% of 441 polling stations, the number of available invalid ballots, submitted to the district election commissions by the verified section election commissions, does not correspond to what was established by the expertise.