Electoral fraud

I have been a volunteer for Oy ve Ötesi (Vote and Beyond) Platform for the last four elections. I will be at the ballot box for the fifth time this Sunday. As a technology journalist, I had the opportunity to examine where fraud can be committed in Turkey's election system very closely. 

Transparency International has criticized the poor criminal liability of legal entities in Turkey, in addition to political interference in foreign bribery investigations, in a report titled "Exporting Corruption" that was revealed Aug. 20. 

The Bulgarian Parliament will discuss at first reading the law on preventing corruption among high-level public officials on Friday.

The legislation has to guarantee that the fight against corruption will be conducted in a new way and through a new body.

There are two kinds of countries in the world. Ones where the election results are revealed after the ballots are counted and ones where results are known long before the first vote is cast. Turkey for sure belongs to the first category. We are no Ukraine, no Egypt. 

I have been a volunteer for the Oy ve Ötesi (Vote and Beyond) Platform for the last three elections. I will be at the ballot box for the fourth time this Sunday. As a technology journalist, I had the opportunity to examine where fraud can be committed in Turkey's election system very closely. 

With only five days to go to the June 7 parliamentary election, Turkey's main opposition party rang alarm bells about electoral security, suggesting that the election would be "at risk" if no measures are taken. 

I come across three questions wherever I go. One is: what are the results of the latest surveys? The second is: will the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) cross the threshold? And the third is: will there be vote rigging in the elections?

Workers at the "Multiprint" printing house have testified in court in favor of the sole defendant in the case concerning the illegal ballot papers discovered on the eve of the early elections on May 12, 2013.

The case is tried in the Sofia City Court under fast-track proceedings, as requested by the defendant, Rosen Zhelyazkov, former Chief Secretary of the Council of Ministers.

Caretaker Interior Minister Yordan Bakalov on Monday vowed “no mercy’’ for vote buying at the upcoming elections and ruled out a repeat of Kostinbrod fake ballots scandal.

Starting May 20, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry will open a hotline (982-22-32) for any issues linked to election fraud.

The hotline will be open until the end of the European elections day on May 25, Chief Interior Secretary Svetlozar Lazarov revealed. Any violations that are reported will be submitted to the Prosecution.