Voting irregularities come one after another, Coalition 2009

The irregularities in the voting process come one after another, says a report by the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections – Coalition 2009, which monitors the elections, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the report, a number of observers of the League for the Defense of Human Rights in Opaci village of Causeni district and Baurci village in Gagauzia are intimidated by members of the polling places and hindered from moving freely inside the places. Also, there were cases when the voters were told who they should vote for. “A member of the electoral office of the polling place in Ecaterinovca village of Cimislia district influences the voters, telling them who they should vote for while giving them the ballots. The mayor of the village transports the voters by his work car, urging them to vote for the PCRM. The portrait of Vladimir Voronin had hung on the wall at the Drochia District Electoral Council until 9.00 and then was removed at the insistence of the CEC. Persons with electoral materials of the Social Democratic Party were noticed near the polling place in Baurci village,” the report says. The report also says that some of the members of the electoral offices do not put the “Elections 05.04.09” stamp on the identity cards. Some of the polling places do not have enough ballots. “The electoral registers of the polling station in Hasnasenii Noi village of Drochia district includes 853 voters, but the electoral office of the given station was distributed only 734 ballots. Also, there are 385 voters in Lazo village, but the electoral office of the poling place there was allotted only 282 ballots,” the report says. The right to vote of a number of patients of the Orhei Psychiatric Hospital and of the Psychiatric Hospital in Codru town of Chisinau municipality continues to be violated. The electoral lists submitted by the institutions to the Central Election Commission include only patients confined to bed. So, the patients with the right to vote that are not confined to bed cannot exercise their right to vote as they were not included in the lists.