Open list candidates/ Celibashi: Measures to prevent vote "trafficking"!
The State Election Commissioner, Ilirjan Celibashi, assured today that the CEC has taken all organizational, human and technical measures to prevent the "trafficking" of votes for candidates on the open list of any entity.
In a communication to candidates for MPs on the open list, Celibashi responded to concerns about the integrity of the counting and evaluation of preferential votes.
"Given some concerns about the integrity of the counting and evaluation of preferential votes, I assure you that the CEC has taken all organizational, human and technical measures to prevent the "trafficking" of votes for open list candidates of any entity ," said Celibashi.
Celibashi announced that the CEC has recorded and has video footage of the process of counting and evaluating votes for political parties and coalitions.
"If, in the process of counting and evaluating votes for candidates on the open list, discrepancies are found between what results in the video footage and what will result in the process of evaluating votes for the candidate, then the counters or commissioners responsible for this case will be held criminally liable for a serious violation of electoral integrity ," he said.

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