Every polling station committee will count the voting machine receipts by hand and check them against the machine's printout. That's what CEC spokeswoman Stoyanka Balova said on Bulgarian National Radio's "Sunday 150" show.
"Every polling station committee will do a manual check-count of the receipts," Balova explained. The result goes into the committee's report, which is then scanned at the district committees' counting centers along with the paper report.
"But the official result comes from the machine's printout," the spokeswoman said. She added that the hand count is done to keep the process open and transparent.
Balova expects the count to go faster and more smoothly this time, since there are no preference votes in the presidential election.
The CEC also announced pay for committee members: 185 euros for the chair and 160 euros for each member. If the report is filled in correctly, everyone on the committee gets an extra 15 euros.
For media packages, the CEC has built an app for a public record of the money spent. New figures on spending and new booking requests come in every day, and committee staff process them.
The record shows which candidate ran ads where, for how much, and whether it was a video, an interview or a banner. The data on the CEC's website is updated every Tuesday.