The Local Elections Observation Mission of Promo-LEX Association identified small deficiencies at the start of the electoral process. The Mission’s head Pavel Postica told a news conference that the observers of Promo-LEX established that some of the polling places were opened before or after 7am, IPN reports.
Pavel Postica noted that among the causes for the late opening of polling places was the delayed sealing of ballot boxes or difficulties encountered in opening the safes for taking the ballots out.
The first findings of the Promo-LEX observers show that the polling places do not have the necessary infrastructure. At a polling place in Sangerei, there is no landline. A polling place in Chisinau is located on the second floor and the people with locomotor disabilities cannot get to the polling booths. At another polling place in Chisinau, the mobile ballot box wasn’t yet sealed at 8:40am.
The observers identified at least three cases when the voter’s loose leaf accompanying the identity card wasn’t verified. In another case, the voter came to the polling place with his identity card, but with the loose leaf belonging to his nephew. In a village in Floresti district, two unmarked ballots were found in the grass near the polling place.
In Cimislia, a person with disabilities didn’t have access to the polling place and the head of the electoral bureau took the ballot out for this person to be able to vote. The electronic register of voters worked defectively in at least three polling places.
There were also recorded cases of campaigning. Near the polling place in a village of Causeni district, a candidate for the mayoralty urged the people to vote for him. There were also reported several cases of organized transportation of voters to the polling place.
Pavel Postica said an unordinary situation happened at a polling place in Floresti town, where the observer of Promo-LEX was banned from moving through the polling place.
As regards voting in the settlements controlled by the separatist Transnistrian administration, Pavel Postica said the people do not encounter difficulties in going to the polling places there. The voters from Corjova, which is located on the left side of the Nistru River, can vote unhampered in Cocieri.
