The mayors’ offices can no more rectify the registers of voters as they have been signed and submitted to the electoral offices, the secretary of the Central Election Commission Iurie Ciocan said in response to the accusations made by the representative of the PCRM, Sergiu Sarbu. According to Sarbu, Prime Minister Vlad Filat ordered that the local public authorities make the electoral rolls shorter so that the results of the September 5 referendum indicate a turnout higher than 1/3 of the voters, which is needed to validate the plebiscite, Info-Prim Neo reports. Sergiu Sarbu said he possesses information that the persons who went abroad were excluded from the electoral registers. “We warned the local public authorities several times to include all the persons who came of age and who have the domicile in Moldova in the electoral rolls, even if they are not physically in the country,” the electoral authority’s secretary said. According to Iurie Ciocan, now the mayors’ offices cannot modify the rolls because they already sent them to the electoral offices. “From August 16, the voters will be able to check if they are on the lists. If need be, the electoral offices will make changes to the rolls,” Ciocan said.