CEC: 927 double vote attempts in Albania

During the vote in local elections that are under way in Albania, 927 cases of double voting attempts have been recorded. CEC chief commissioner Ilirjan Celibashi in a statement to the media added that 29 indictments have reached the CEC so far. ”

“There have come 29 sentences, at least formally, there are 4 denouncings from 2 electoral subjects, 2 from the SP, and 1 from the “Basca coalition we win”. The SP has denounced the BF candidate in Elbasan and Tirana in 2 cases for breaking the electoral silence. 1 denounced by the Albanian Helsinki Committee for distributing the material base for the early hours of the voting process.

24 convictions from different citizens. The most troubled municipalities are Tirana, Elbasan, Durres, Dropul, Kamza, Konispoli, Lezha, Bishop and Tropoja. In the denouncing is related to the destruction of Pay equipment, there are denouncing of voter orientation, regarding posts, with electoral content on social networks, the nature of the charges. There are convictions and family voting at several polling stations or municipalities.

As for the identification and participation process, there are 998 thousand and 663 voters who have been identified through electronic equipment that are also voters, that is for those we identify through the device, of which there are 98,83 percent whose finger marks were taken, the rest were read through the card, but the fingerprint was not possible. We've verified 927 attempts at double voting. Fourteen and 654 voters for the first time“, he added.