“Our efforts are aimed at making the elections transparent and fair. Machine voting has been in place for several years and so far I have not seen, read, or found a single official complaint from any political party against the result.”
This was said by the Minister of Electronic Government, Georgi Todorov, in an interview.
Todorov emphasized that the video surveillance and video recording of the vote is a huge challenge without an analogue in Europe.
“The video surveillance and vote recording devices are a small part of the whole process. A site located at a different location than the site of the Central Election Commission, different from the Public-Private Hybrid Cloud, a different location from the site of the system integrator should be built, so that we can prevent and eliminate the possibility of cyberattacks”, the minister also stated.
Minister Todorov specified that the video surveillance and video recording of the counting of the ballots will begin only after the end of the election day, i.e. voters need not worry in any way that the secrecy of their vote will be compromised. He also explained that in the sections where there is an Internet connection, the counting of the vote will be able to be observed in real time, and where there is no such, the counting of the ballots will be able to be viewed on a recording.
“Machines and paper ballots will give people a choice of which way to vote. Everything that follows from the Electoral Code, such as a commitment to the MEU to certify the code of the voting machines, will be carried out again in a transparent and impartial manner”, Minister Todorov added. He assured that the certification of the voting machines will take place within the statutory period so that all the deadlines set by the Central Electoral Commission are met.
