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People are complaining on the SOS hotline that SEC and MIO are playing ping-pong with their applications
From the day when the voters’ list was published publicly, the citizens are calling actively to point at problems in the voters list at the SOS-line used for reporting election irregularities (0800 88 888) that is enabled by civic activists “We Decide” – as was reported by representatives of the civil initiative.
"The citizens that contacted us have complained that...
The SEC will publish the names of the questionable voters by Tuesday
The website of the State Election Commission (SEC) by Tuesday, will be published the names of the 39,502 questionable voters on the electoral roll. During the last field check, they were either not found at home or there were no records found in the institutions.
The SEC will prepare guidelines and an application form, and publish an open call on...
MPs vote on amendments to the Electoral Code
Last night, MPs voted, and the results were; with 92 votes "for", three "against" and one "abstention", with a fast track procedure, they voted for the amendments to the Electoral Code, which was submitted by MPs Ilija Dimovski from the VMRO-DPMNE party, Goran Sugareski of the SDSM, Artan Grubi from the DUI, and Imer Aliu from the DPA.
The amendment...
SEC will request a delay in elections because of discrepancies in the number of voters in the constituencies
Members of the State Election Commission (SEC) will request to changes the electoral code from Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski.
The changes are required because there were discrepancies in the number of voters in three constituencies - the third, fourth and sixth. The SEC concluded that there are inconsistencies from at least five percent in the number of voters in these...
The SEC are not expecting many people to check the voters list
The State Election Commission (SEC) is not expecting a large number of citizens to report any changes to the voters’ list. They said from experience from the last election year, that number is small and it is not likely to change radically in the voters’ list. However, whether or not they will publish the number of people who applied...
The SEC has published on their official website a list of all disputable voters’
The State Election Commission (SEC) today announced the list of voters by name, surname and address who are being going through field checks.
The list is available on the official website of the SEC.
At yesterday's session, all members voted on the proposal by VMRO-DPMNE member, Silvana Boneva and DPA member Bedredin Ibrahimim to publish the list of names who will...
The SEC will begin with field tests on disputable voters with 374 interviewers
Field checks start today of 89,383 questionable voters, announced the State Election Commission (SEC). They say that a number of 374 interviewers will start making visits to the addresses where voters are registered and will help citizens fill out a questionnaire. The questionnaires are printed in the names of the voters, and the interviewers should only take data from the names of...
The SEC have started field checks on questionable voters
State Election Commission from today until April 3 will conduct field checks of 89,383 voters from the electoral roll, which have proven disputable in cross-checks.
As announced by the SEC, together with the investigators the information campaign "Open Doors" will begin.
The SEC said that deleting data will be carried out on three grounds, at the request of citizens, at the...
Vanhoutte for “Meta”: I certainly won’t donate my bicycle to the VMRO Museum.
Belgian expert Peter Vanhoutte, who facilitated the negotiations of the Przino Agreement and those in the working groups, today left for Brussels. His contract as an independent expert ends on March 27, but he announced that he would be returning to Macedonia on April 4 and said he would continue to work and help the country move forward.
As for...
Field-tests for disputed voters to start by the end of the week
By the end of the week, field-tests will begin on the issue of questionable voters on the electoral roll. A total of 100,436 entries (first names, surnames and addresses) will be checked by a force of 374 authorized field-investigators who will conduct interviews. The work of the field-investigators will be managed under the supervision of various heads of regional offices...
Members of the SEC from the SDSM walk out of session
Igor Milev and Violeta Duma, members of the State Election Commission and members from the SDSM party walked out of the session, especially when they began to discuss how much of the 310,000 voters should undergo field checks, confirmed the SEC for "Meta".
Before the break, the SEC members talked about voters who have moved out of country and are on...
VMRO-DPMNE: The SEC can check everyone, they need to do their jobs faster
"The SDSM for months have wanted to show a false image to the public that there is a huge number of so-called phantom voters, once they said 30,000, then thy said 100,000 and now the number has reached half a million," reads the statement from the VMRO-DPMNE.
"Yesterday, the SDSM terrorized the SEC, using all means and manipulation in an...
“Most” called on the SEC to publish their report without additional intervention
The civil association “Most” called on the State Election Commission (SEC) to announce the initial report of the data base cross-checks of the voters’ list, as it is, without any additional intervention.
"The SEC must publish the initial report of the cross-checks as it is has been prepared and submitted by experts, ie without any additional interventions, and its adoption...
SEC: The number of questionable voters is speculation
As long as the members of the State Election Commission do not adopt the results of the cross-checks from the report, all numbers that appear in public are made on the basis of speculation - said Ljupka Guguchevska, an adviser with the SEC at a press conference today.
She refused to answer journalists' questions whether the number is the same...
Half a million questionable voters on the electoral register?
Exactly 495,258 voters have been found to be questionable and need to subjected to additional verification, it says in a report after data was cross checked by the Interior Ministry and ten other institutions, which “Telma” managed to get a copy of the report.
More than 190,000 were found to be fictitious voters, according to the report, it is the voters...
“Most”: The dysfunctional system is the reason for the lack of confidence in the electoral register
Whatever the SEC does in the upcoming period, it will not be able to cleanse the voters list without the cooperation of the other relevant institutions to submit data on the voters list, say the civic association “Most”.
“Most” realized that some of the problems arising in the electoral register are from the strange need for the frequent change of street...
Cichakovski: We will do every we can to cleanse the voters’ list by April 17
The State Election Commission will take all actions to reach the deadline on April 17 to cleanse the voters list, said the SEC chairman Aleksandar Cichakovski, after meeting with representatives from 20 Embassies at the MPs Clubhouse in Skopje.
According to him, at today's session the SEC has to find a solution on how to check complaints coming from citizens.
“We...
VMRO-DPMNE: SDSM in a panic, since there is no proof of the 150,000 “phantom” voters
The difference in the support the VMRO-DPMNE have and the SDSM have is around 200,000 votes. This difference has been consistent over the past 10 years and this is due to the wisdom of the citizens to recognize projects and prosperity on the one hand and destruction and affairs on the other hand, reacts VMRO-DPMNE to the SDSM statement.
The...
Phantom voters, dead souls, and packed apartments on the Electoral List
A string of irregularities have been discovered while citizens were checking their personal data on the voters’ list through the web application which has been available since yesterday on the official website of the State Election Committee.
Citizens have turned to the social networks, saying that people they do not know are registered as living at their addresses. The list...
Ahmeti: DUI Against Active Registration of Voters
The Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) is against the proposal for the active registration of voters because its a contradiction to "the spirit of voting and of the guarantee of the right for every citizen to vote ”, said the President of the Party, Ali Ahmeti, during today 's meeting with the Ambassador from the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
