They are preparing another active event against the machine voting, warns the former minister of e-government Bozhidar Bojanov. In his post on Facebook, he tells what the next scheme is to disgrace the machine voting, with the CEC, DPS, ITN and GERB participating in the operation.
According to him, this time they invented a ridiculous story with the paper about the machines, which ITN and Boyko Borisov blew up yesterday.
The chronology of the prepared sabotage is as follows - the CEC, at the suggestion of a representative of the DPS, decided twenty days ago that the municipalities should destroy the rolls of paper left over from the local elections and sent a letter to all the municipalities. The CEC does not make a formal decision (which it publishes on its website), but simply sends a letter. And such a request for destruction is being made for the first time, i.e. between the previous parliamentary and local elections rolls were not destroyed.
The Metropolitan Municipality responds that it cannot comply with this request because there is a pending case on the result of the election and entering the sealed premises with the ballot papers from the local elections without a court order could compromise the legal process. And the unused rolls are stored in the same premises.
The CEC has been waiting for 10 days and only received the response of the Metropolitan Municipality yesterday. A meeting at the CEC follows, at which the Municipality of Sofia and the SDVR declare their readiness to install security instead of destruction. The Metropolitan Municipality also sent a letter to the court asking for instructions on what to do with the rolls.
“The insinuations from the eternal enemies of the machines are that if there was this secure paper, fake receipts could be printed from the machines and thus increase the score of PP-DB. This is absolutely ridiculous (and it is unworthy of Borisov to make such suggestions) for several reasons - there is no way someone can bring in paper receipts and secretly stuff them into the ballot boxes without the sectional committee seeing it; the election code implicitly says that for each election the protections of the paper must be different (because the decision of the CEC with the designated protections is published after the election day, i.e. they are clear for the paper of past elections); machine receipts have a QR code that contains the voter's vote, protected by a machine key that no one has. It cannot be manipulated, and this can be verified through the machine itself, to which a reader can be connected afterwards, commented Bojanov, who is a candidate for a representative of the "We continue the change"-"Democratic Bulgaria" group. in 23 MIR Sofia and Burgas
“If such manipulations could be done, the destruction of the rolls should have happened immediately after the local elections. Otherwise, 265 municipalities have had these rolls for months”, he adds and calls on the CEC not to participate in another attempt to sabotage the machine voting.