Government proposals to the CEC for the technical improvement of machine voting to ensure fair and well-organized elections are well-intentioned, but they have no meaning because they do not address the essential problems of machine voting.
This is what he told "Focus“ the mathematician and long-time deputy chairman of the CEC Prof. Mihail Konstantinov.
"There is clearly some intention in these proposals to introduce additional security measures. They won't do any good because they don't attack the problem, but they won't do any harm either. So let colleagues have fun as they please.“
Mikhail Konstantinov expressed his categorical opinion that voting should not be done with machines in Bulgaria, just as voting is not done in Europe. "The Bulgarian voter began to opt out of machine voting on his own – in the last election, less than 1/3 of voters voted by machine. I.e. 2/3 chose the good old European way of voting by paper,” he added.
With such debates and arguments about how voting is conducted, the voter's attention is diverted from the important issues, he said, adding that the important issues for him are policies and solving people's problems. "For me, it is already insulting that I don't know which way to discuss these issues. This is not dignified. It is worth talking about policies, about the important things, not about voting technology. Technology is a secondary, even tertiary problem, it should not engage the public's attention,” he explained and added that it was precisely because of this that the whole of Europe gave up machine voting in order not to have such conversations.