Stream criticises the CEC for delays in announcing election results

He further writes that the CEC for announcing results is taking as long as it took to organise early elections, Periscopi broadcasts.

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Every day, the announcement and Certificate of final results are taking on special importance as the last phase of the election cycle, but also a public inadequacy towards their delay is growing fairly. The conclusion of the election process remains as challenging as the election organisation itself.

As an irreparable defect so far, announcement and certificate of results is emerging as a process as much as, or even longer, than organising the elections itself. This fact presents unfair prioritization of the electoral cycle stages, giving more importance to processing and revealing the results against the organisation of free and fair elections, as expressed by the CEC's organisational inability, but also by other institutions such as PZAP and the Supreme Court.

The announcement of results, no matter how important, would have to be completed very soon and as a completely technical activity marked the closure of the election cycle. In the meantime, real concern should be the exit of voters to elections, education and information of voters, the inability to participate, the cleaning of the voter list, the training of commissioners, the large number of invalid balloting, assistance voting, etc. But while we have an unprecedented impasse in publishing the results, what can be done for these much more complex segments.

The last two general elections as early are organised within thirty days, announcement and Certificate of results have lasted more than a month, respectively, approaching thirty days. Just as many days as to organise elections, just to announce the results.

Justifiable as the delay in announcing the results may be, their expectations have become unbearable and skeptical in essence. This slow process of necessity should change in the future. A case like this would have to be the best time to analyze the causes of this delay and reflect on finding solutions that seriously improve this aspect, providing accurate, reliable, and transparent results, as well as quick results.

Counting and announcing results in Kosovo takes place at two levels, which represent two other extremes. While the count at the polling (where it is voted) expresses the most decentralisation core of the election process, the coverage and overall processing of it in the CNR is the next complete centralistic dimension. In fact, this concept of counting and reporting results, except that it is evidenced inefficiency, is also paradoxically in itself. If any form, each poll should be processed once again by the CEC at the level of the QNR, as well as always the recounting of around 2040% of the boxes, then what does it mean to count the votes in the polling stations?

Despite the fact that the current system of open lists and double counting in the polls for political subjects and candidates is challenging, the CEC would have to take the necessary measures allowed with the Law on Elections and ensure accurate counting and meeting of forms. Delaying results is not caused by the fact that open lists exist, but by the recount of over 500 ballot boxes, respectively, of locations for which the forms have not been met correctly.

In view of these, we need to focus on finding legal and sustainable mechanisms to ensure rapid proclamation and integrity of results certificate procedures, by adapting to the best practices and standards that would enable safe, accurate, reliable and quick process of counting ballots. One of the best ways, but not the only way to meet these goals would be to count ballot counting centres, strengthen training, and use the special counting team in the deployments. Counting at municipal centres would enable that within twenty-four hours after election day we would have precise and final results at the level of municipalities both for political subjects and their candidates, while Certificate of final results from the CEC could take place within a week or more ten days after the election's end.” /Periscopi