“The State Election Commission from institutions received unclean and different data from different databases. From some institutions they received less data, and from others – more than what was required. However, it was decided to use a total of 11 databases from 11 different institutions”, said Michael Burg, an IT expert from the USA, and member of the SEC’s expert group, at today’s meeting of the SEC.
Expert Atanas Urumov proposed the plan for cross-checking data-bases to add another perspective, which according to him, will help them locate suspicious voters, this way the SEC can look at these names first and approve them, and then begin with spot checks.
According to the plan, part of the suspicious categories which will need to be checked on the voter lists are the deceased names, then they will need to look at voters who are registered as living at the same address, citizens who do not have permanent residence in Macedonia, phantom voters and voters who have been registered at two polling stations.
Silvana Boneva, a member of the SEC and the VMRO-DPMNE party, said she doubted the validation and was afraid that the process would be prolonged, therefore delaying the cleansing of the electoral roll.
Bedredin Ibrahimi, a member of the SEC and the DPA party said that there might not be any phantom voters and the electoral list is correct.
