6 minutes agoOver 400,000 invalid leaflets
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)In the June 2017 parliamentary elections, more than 42,000 citizens' ballots were declared invalid by the CEC. That figure almost doubled in the same year in October, when the country went to local elections. There were about 80 thousand votes that were declared invalid. Almost the same trend as [...] parliamentary ones.
That figure almost doubled in the same year in October, when the country went to local elections. There were about 80 thousand votes that were declared invalid.
The trend is almost the same as the 2017 parliamentarys is continuing in the last elections.
While the CEC has made the count of over 98 % of the vote, more than 400,000 invalid ballots have been registered.
There are exactly 40.155 valid votes from exactly 98.15 percent of the votes counted, while the number may increase even more when the number of conditional votes, persons with special needs and votes that have reached through mail.
Counting of these votes is expected to begin within days, according to CEC spokesman Valmir Elezi.
“As long as it comes to the time when the number of parole votes, the vote with special needs and votes through the mail, we depend on procedures and dynamics of jobs that are being conducted here at the Counting and Results Centre, but we hope that within a few days we will be able to do all these jobs so that we can start counting these categories and votes outside the country”, the CEC spokesman said.
According to Elez, currently the CEC does not have the data of how many persons with special needs have seized the right to vote, or what is the number of votes on bail, but that according to him this data will become known after the process of accepting sensitive electoral material is completed from all voting municipalities in Kosovo.
