Albania with new voting system, Shehu demonstrates process

At the polling centre “Qemal Stafa” in central Tirana unit 10, the pilot project is being implemented for electronic voting and biometric identification.

The secretary of this KZAZ, Lisida Shehi for Kosovapress, demonstrated how the citizens of that unit will be able to vote electronically, she said that 2-3 weeks of testing took place for this pilot, but even after that citizens have faced difficulties. While in terms of when the results of the vote will emerge from the electronic vote, Lisida Shehi said the result will come tomorrow at 8.

This is the list of subjects, and I choose one of the subject lists and I press for the candidate, each subject has a candidate list, if you want one of the numbers, you type one of the numbers, if you don't want any, you sort these, and you print the vote. The moment I've printed the vote, I change the choice and come back from the beginning and I have the right to do it only once (the opportunity to repeat the vote), if I agree with the selection that I've made and the letter goes down directly to the box and my vote was cast directly into the box<1>, she said.

In the question of how the citizens of this unit have expected this electronic vote, and whether this process is easy and whether it has been difficult, Lisida Shehi said that 2-3 weeks of tests have been made for this pilot and that citizens have faced difficulties

There have been 2-3 weeks of testing, but I can't say there's been any difficulty, that normally it's an easy procedure until it's learned then not all came to use the device during this time, it's been difficult, but it's all going to pass. It's just late that it can be created in rows that we haven't had any major problems”, she said.

While in the question that in case the device doesn't work, whether the manual can be used or not, the secretary of this center said there are two devices for each center, and if one device breaks down, we can use the other for 15 minutes or 20 until the other is fixed.

“Passis divides into two, is an identification device that is an initial device that we don't have and it's in all of Albania's centers, and it's also the voting device, if the voting device breaks down, it starts voting in the other one, because there's two devices for each poll center, voting for one of the devices until the other is fixed, and the operator comes and fixes it, in the moment it can take 15 minutes, 20 minutes to fix it, but so far we haven't had any problems with the <61>

Also in the question of when they will have the data for the number of voters and whether they will have the centres closed, Lisida Shehi said the outcome of these votes will be released tomorrow at 8.

The decision on how the outcome comes out tomorrow at 8 o'clock is printed... we don't have a clue yet about how the play will be given, but I believe it will result in how many, so far, turnout seems to be high, but that's just an impression we've got at”, she said.