CEC accepts 137 alleged ballot packages for Dragasin

The Central Election Commission (KQZ) from November 29th and so far has accepted 137 alleged mail ballot packages from voters registered outside Kosovo for repeat voting for the second round of local elections in the municipality of Dragas.

Thus has the chief executive of the Central Election Commission Secretariat, Resource Ahmetaj, who said they have developed all activities to inform all voters of fair voting.

The “Secretariat is in preparation for a repeat of the second round in the Dragas municipality for the voting process abroad, which began from November 29th to December 13th 2021, and has conducted all activities to inform all voters rightly vote and has taken steps to inform through public information processes. Until now, December 6th, the Secretariat has accepted 137 alleged packets of balloting via mail”, he said.

CEC member from LDK ranks Florian Dushi has raised the flow of the list with phone numbers of persons registered for voting from abroad as a concern.

The list of people registered along with the KEC's phone numbers and they own private persons and they've contacted people on the phone and I know that at least we're told that we don't have the right to have it when we've talked about this list we've been told that this part of the list could only have about names and surnames and not phone numbers and personal numbers, while that list along with the names going and I've already sent it, and it's a good day how it's been flowing out of <1x> said Dushi.

Responding to this concern did not CEC Secretariat chief Burim Ahmetaj, who said he had no knowledge of this information.

“I'm not aware of such information, but we'll look and investigate how it could be used for unauthorized persons to possess a list of personal data and phone numbers where it is used only for the management purposes of the process and nothing else”, he stressed.

The modern-day assembly of the Central Election Commission has also approved the replacement of municipal assembly members in Lipjan, Suhareka, Gracanica, Ferizaj, North Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zubin Potok, Partesh and Pec.

The CEC has also approved the Financial Report for the period completed on September 30th, 2021. With seven votes for and one abstention has also been voted out in the January-September 2021 car derivatives report. For these two reports, KEC member Alym Rama has abstained to the polls from the ranks of Vetevendosje Movement.

While the 8 votes for this have been approved the budget for the “Worker's local election lessons 2021”, as well as the Project and the agenda for this workshop. / KP/