7 hours agoCEC: Counting of votes by diaspora expected to begin this week
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)The Central Election Commission continues with the scan of voter lists signed at 2,533 regular elections on Election Day, and only after the end of this process will the count of diaspora votes, conditional votes and disabled persons begin. Also, according to the CEC, verification of [...] is taking place.
The Central Election Commission continues with the scan of voter lists signed at 2,533 regular elections on Election Day, and only after the end of this process will the count of diaspora votes, conditional votes and disabled persons begin. Also, according to the CEC, the verification of ballot packages is taking place outside Kosovo.
The Central Election Commission has indicated that the number of votes on bail -- votes of persons with special needs and those from the diaspora -- is expected to begin this week.
CEC spokesman Valmir Elezi has said these votes will begin to be counted after the completion of all procedures, such as the scan of the voter list signed at regular polling, the process which was launched on Saturday.
According to him, the CEC is making the assessment of the ballot packages from voting outside Kosovo, respectively, by voting via mail.
“From February 9th, when the assessment or verification of parcels from voting outside Kosovo has begun and until February 22nd, this process has been submitted to 60,997 packages, of which 56,947 have already been approved. The reason why these shipments were rejected is that they were sent by persons who were cancelled during the voter registration outside Kosovo; they lack registration policy; they were sent more than once; they sent more than a ballot; etc. The evaluation process will also be submitted to 7,718 packets of ballots”, Elez said.
According to him, during the census period, out of 104,924 registered citizens outside Kosovo -- 84,600 -- were registered to vote via mail and another 20,324 were registered for physical voting in diplomatic representations.
Out of 20,324 diplomatic representative, 15,352 voters have voted, already in the vote via mail. The CEC has accepted about 69 thousand packages of balloting.
Elez has stressed that the number of ballot envelopes from the conditional polling is 12,801, which will also undergo verification, which includes comparing to the list of voters signed at regular locations. Meanwhile, the number of votes for persons with special needs is 2,597 votes.
