{"id":895,"date":"2010-11-28T15:11:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alegeliber.md\/?p=895"},"modified":"2010-11-28T16:47:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T16:47:41","slug":"promo-lex-mijlocul-zilei-alegerilor-marcat-de-abateri-de-insemnatate-variata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/en\/promo-lex-mijlocul-zilei-alegerilor-marcat-de-abateri-de-insemnatate-variata-895.html","title":{"rendered":"Promo-LEX: At the half-way point, elections are marked by various deviations from electoral norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-899\" href=\"http:\/\/alegeliber.md\/?attachment_id=899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-899\" title=\"Varnita8-1\" src=\"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Varnita8-11-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Varnita8-11-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Varnita8-11-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Varnita8-11-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> <iframe src='https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/widget\/live\/2517' frameborder='0' width='266' height='194' scrolling='no'><\/iframe><br \/>\nPromo-LEX observers, reporting on the period up to 15.00, have found  new problems in the electoral process, such as: inadequate equipment at  voting stations, failures in the performance of members of the Precinct  Electoral Bureau (PEB), violations of voting procedures, unauthorised  electoral campaigning, irregularities in cases where people have voted  at home, and problems with the transportation of voters to the voting  stations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inadequate equipping of voting stations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Observers throughout the country continue to note the improper state of  certain voting stations, which are not equipped as they should be  according to the relevant legal framework. The following cases may be  mentioned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Voting Station (VS) nr.133 in Chi\u015fin\u0103u, where the voting booths  are screened with a transparent material, thus not permitting voters to  vote in secret;<\/li>\n<li>VS nr.22 in Ciute\u015fti (under the Nisporeni District Electoral Commission (DEC)), which is without lighting;<\/li>\n<li>VS nr.108 in the Botanica district of Chi\u015fin\u0103u, where the electricity supply was disconnected for two minutes;<\/li>\n<li>The unfit state and inadequate equipping of the locations used  by the PEB and of the areas designated as voting stations was one of the  concerns mentioned in previous Promo-LEX reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The performance of members of the Precinct Electoral Bureau (PEB):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The performance of PEB members at some voting stations has deficient in certain respects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At VS nr.22 in Ciute\u015fti (Nisporeni DEC), PEB members registered  only 4 observers on their lists, while 9 observers were present at the  voting station;<\/li>\n<li>At VS nr.17 in Corjeu\u0163i (Briceni DEC), a voting slip was handed out after a voter had shown only a passport for foreign travel;<\/li>\n<li>At VS nr.22. in Pohrebea (Dub\u0103sari DEC), the president and vice-president of the PEB were absent for two hours;<\/li>\n<li>VS nr.34 in B\u0103l\u0163i (B\u0103l\u0163i DEC), was closed from 10.05 to 10.25, because an ambulance had been called for a voter who felt unwell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Voting procedure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In many localities in the country, functionaries have allowed deviations  from correct voting procedure. In particular, there have been cases in  which more people have been admitted into the voting booths than is  allowed, and in which people with visual disabilities have encountered  difficulties voting. Promo-LEX observers have also reported cases in  which the ballot boxes had already been filled, thus forcing to  functionaries to extemporise a solution, be it more or less legitimate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At VS nr.12 in Dub\u0103sarii Vechi (Criuleni DEC), married couples were allowed to enter the voting booths together;<\/li>\n<li>At VS nr.37 in Scor\u0163eni (Telene\u015fti DEC), a person with a visual  impairment was not allowed to be accompanied into the voting booth by  another person;<\/li>\n<li>At VS nr.19 in Bursuceni (S\u00eengerei DEC), many voters made their voting slips visible, thus showing whom they had voted for;<\/li>\n<li>At VS nr.289 in Gr\u0103tie\u015fti (Chi\u015fin\u0103u DEC), one voter who had been  given their voting slip returned  the slip to a Bureau member and went  outside of the voting station to speak on their mobile. The returned  voting slip was cancelled and the voter was refused another slip upon  their return;<\/li>\n<li>At VS nr.41 in Varni\u021ba (Anenii Noi DEC) was closed for 10  minutes, during which time a second ballot box was prepared, the first  having already been filled. The second ballot box was fashioned out of  cardboard, without a verbal process being inserted. The same situation  was recorded at VS nr.40 in  Varni\u021ba (Anenii Noi DEC), which was closed  for 7 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Electoral lists<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>The electoral lists in some voting stations were reported as being incomplete:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> At VS nr.5 in Comrat (Autonomous Territorial Unit of G\u0103g\u0103uzia  (ATUG)  DEC) 28 people were missing from the lists, and were subsequently added  onto supplementary lists;<\/li>\n<li> At VS nr.4 in Comrat (ATUG DEC), 33 people could not find themselves on the basic list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Electoral campaigning<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Many electoral candidates continue to conduct campaign activities,  contrary to the provisions of the relevant legislation.  Such cases were  found in the Ungheni rayon (where there were cases of text messages  being sent bearing the message \u201cVote for VICTORY, vote for LUPU\u201d) and  around VS nr.3 in Taracalia (ATUG DEC) (where the mayor of Taraclia \u2013   Gaidarji Vasilii \u2013 was campaigning on behalf of one of the electoral  candidates.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voting with the mobile ballot box<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Requests to vote at home should be made in person or by relatives or  social assistants. Promo-LEX observers found deviations from the voting  procedure in cases where the mobile ballot box was requested, in at  least two voting stations in two electoral districts. For example, in VS  nr.36 in Cazaclia (ATUG DEC), 6 requests to vote at home were recorded  which had been drawn up by medical assistants, while at VS nr.33 in  Hagimus (C\u0103u\u015feni DEC), 80 requests to vote at home were submitted, 47 of  which had been submitted by monks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transportation of voters<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>In many localities, cases were noted in which voters were transported to  voting stations by electoral candidates. In the  Anenii Noi rayon, one  candidate organised for voters to be taken from Bender to  Varni\u0163a,  using two buses. The same thing was noted in the Criuleni rayon, where  another candidate transported voters from the village of Zolonceni to  voting station nr.12\/3 in Criuleni, with a bus bearing an electoral  poster of the candidate in question.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transnistrian region<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>At the entrance to the city of Bender, on the Chi\u015fin\u0103u-Bender road, the  Transnistrian checkpoint has effectively doubled its checks. In the village of Corjova, near the Mihai Eminescu highschool, the  presence of 100 people with posters bearing the slogan \u201cNo to the  election in Transnistria, No to Romanisation of the PMR\u201d was recorded. A  similar situation was found at a school in the village of Corjova.  Those protesting were reported as being in a state of inebriation.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Promo-LEX monitoring effort is being carried out as part of the  Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections. For the election day, 2500  observers recruited from all over the country have been trained, and  deployed to all the voting sections in the Republic of Moldova. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For further details contact: Cristina Nicolenco, Promo-LEX press  officer, Tel: (22) 211622, GSM: 069882392, email: pr@promolex.md<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-897\" href=\"http:\/\/alegeliber.md\/?attachment_id=897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-897\" title=\"100_3884\" src=\"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/100_3884-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/100_3884-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/100_3884-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/100_3884-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/100_3884.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-896\" href=\"http:\/\/alegeliber.md\/?attachment_id=896\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-896\" title=\"100_3874\" src=\"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/100_3874-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/100_3874-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/100_3874-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/100_3874-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/100_3874.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promo-LEX observers, reporting on the period up to 15.00, have found new problems in the electoral process, such as: inadequate equipment at voting stations, failures in the performance of members of the Precinct Electoral Bureau (PEB), violations of voting procedures, unauthorised electoral campaigning, irregularities in cases where people have voted at home, and problems with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alegeliber.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}