a minute agoDring for manipulations with diaspora votes
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)It has been nearly a week since several diaspora votes have arrived in Kosovo and are staying in the Ministry of Infrastructure. Placing these votes into objects like this of the Ministry and not in the CEC is considered the possibility of being free of them. Political officials stress that because of the close outcome [...]
Voters from the diaspora have four days to vote for the October 6th elections.
Out of 35 thousand applicants to vote for early elections, up until now some 2000 people have completed this process, whose votes have been accepted by the CEC, but the same are not standing in the spaces of this body.
These packets of LZ voters have taken up residence in the Ministry of Infrastructure because, says the CEC, lack of space in the institution. But former CEC leaders and political connoisseurs estimate that the Central Election Commission has enough room to hold diaspora ballot packages, writes further “Zer”.
They stress that setting up entrant balloting, as in this case in the Ministry of Infrastructure, creates uncertainty about those votes, which in cases like these may come to be an impression that they do not have the same importance as the votes of Kosovo's resident citizens.
In fact, they say, the narrow outcome of these votes is likely to be manipulated in these elections...
