In the parliamentary election that will take place on 11 December video cameras in the polling stations, as well as the information system for monitoring the turnout will be used, a system that was implemented in the local ballot held in June.
The Government has decided that the existing application must have a video camera, which will be recording the vote counting process, and the minutes are to be filled in without interrupting the recording, General Director of the Special Telecommunications Service Marcel Opris explained.
On the parliamentary election day, the voting itself will not be video surveilled between the opening and the closing of the ballot boxes, but only in the period in which the ballot papers are counted, Interior Minister Dragos Tudorache underlined.
In the local elections held this year in June it was used, for the first time an information system of monitoring the turnout and avoiding the multiple voting. This system was implemented by the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP), together with the Special Telecommunications Service (STS). This way, the electors won't be forced anymore to sign the statutory declaration that they haven't also voted in another polling station.
This system will be introduced in the legislative elections that will take place on 11 December and in the polling stations abroad, as Director of the Directorate for organizing the electoral process abroad within the AEP Iulian Ivan mentioned.
"In the local elections it has been introduced for the first time an information system that monitors the turnout and avoids the multiple voting, a project that was a success. Together with the STS and the AEP we have implemented this system, so that in every polling station there was an information terminal, a tablet through which every elector who was present to vote was identified in the system, thus not being able to go and vote somewhere else. The system will be extended, in the same way in the polling stations abroad," the AEP representative explained.
Any Romanian in the diaspora can request to became an operator for a polling station, which is to be created in the locality where one has the residence or domicile, and will be paid for the activity performed.
The Government adopted in October a decision, through which the recording of the vote counting process in polling stations in the country and abroad for the parliamentary elections is mandatory.
The tablets which all the polling stations are equipped with, will be used to video record how the vote counting process will be carried out. The recordings will be made by the tablet operators, but they can't be used as evidence in court.
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