TIRANA, May 14 /ATA/-By Maela Marini/ – The Central Election Commissioner Ilirjan Celibashi told reporters that some 927 double voting attempts have been verified in various voting stations as Albanians headed to the polls on Sunday to elect mayors and councilors in 61 municipalities across the country.
In a press statement, Celibashi said that the data on voter turnout refer to 4497 polling stations that send real time information to the central election body.
He also said that a total of 29 irregularities have been reported, four of them by political parties for violation of election silence, one by the Albanian Helsinki Committee and 24 reports from various citizens mainly in the municipalities of Tirana, Elbasan, Durrës, Dropull, Kamzë, Konsipol, Lezhë, Peshkopi and Tropojë.
As to the voter identification process and turnout, Celibashi said that a total of 998 633 voters have been identified via the electronic voting devices and they are potential voters.
“93.86% of these voters have been identified via their fingerprints and the others through their ID cards. A total of 14 654 first time voters were recorded so far. Data searching has been done manually and not via their ID cards for a total of 56 554 voters,” Celibashi said.
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