Oazu Nantoi shows vote rigging techniques used by Communists in 2005 parliamentary elections

The Democratic Party's (PDM) deputy president Oazu Nantoi has presented a pile of ballots and has told a news conference about techniques of gerrymandering the elections, used on March 6, 2005. Friday, April 3, Oazu Nantoi told media he got the ballots form a former Communist activist in Orhei town. According to Nantoi, the activist was an electoral judge in 2005 and received from the PCRM ballots stamped as voted next to the PCRM and the seal of the polling station on the other side, Info-Prim Neo reports. The PDM vie-president hints that when counting the ballots, the PCRM members in the electoral offices can replace the undesirable ballots with ballots received from the Communists Party. The PDM leaders see also an explanation here for the fact of having added 146,000 voters on the lists, compared to the number of voters in the previous ballot. PDM leader Dumitru Diacov has called on observers and voters to be attentive in the process of voting. In another context, PDM president Dumitru Diacov has said the party has commissioned an internal poll, according to which the Democrats will gain from 11 to 15 % of the ballots, on Sunday, April 5. Diacov thinks the Communists will get 26%. Other parties have also expressed their fears that the ruling party could tempted to rig the elections and said they will count the votes themselves, through their observers, the same being suggested by the Democratic Party. Analyzing the electoral campaign, Dumitru Diacov has said “the PDM has had the most balanced campaign, the most honest, the cleanest, we have not sprayed dirt at our electoral competitors.” However, Diacov has apologized for his Ialoveni colleague, Daniel Tonu, who had criticized on April 2 the deputy president of the Ialoveni district, Valeriu Erhan, a Liberal Democrat. When asked about his attitude toward the exit-pol, Dumitru Diacov has said: “I know that at least a single person charged with the poll and the exit poll attends the planning sittings of Tkaciuk (the 5th on the PCRM's list). I will name him after the elections.”