Preparation for the 2 in 1 elections on June 9 has already begun. At 10:00 a.m., the numbers of the voting machines for the European and national parliamentary elections will be downloaded and verified for compliance, NOVA reported.
This will happen at the Ministry of Electronic Government in the presence of Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dimitar Glavchev. Representatives of the Central Election Commission, the Public Council at the CEC, as well as members of the parliamentary parties are invited to attend.
It was the delay in the authentication process that was the reason why the CEC decided not to have a machine vote in the first round of local elections last year. The conformity of the machine voting devices is certified by a decision of the MEU, the Bulgarian Institute for Standardization and the Bulgarian Institute of Metrology.