Innovation and digital transformation minister Ivan Vasilev said today that 10 voting machines will go through a compliance check before the vote for president and vice president on 25 October. He was answering a question in the parliamentary committee on innovation and digital transformation.
This story follows our earlier report on the public draw of machine numbers for the presidential election. The ministry said then that it would draw the numbers of the machines to be checked.
The 10 machines were picked by random draw at the ministry on Tuesday. Vasilev explained that the teams decided how many machines to check, and each one asked for a set number.
The question came from the GERB-SDS parliamentary group and concerned how reliable machine voting is. Machines will be used in polling stations with more than 300 voters. Vasilev said the check will show the teams that the machines for these stations work properly.
The reports will be published as soon as the teams finish their work, and anyone will be able to read them. The ministry says it is open about all its work and shares any new information with the public at once on all its channels.
The mobile app explains how voting with machines works. The minister reminded voters that they can look at it early and prepare as well as they can for election day.
"I believe that the more open the process is and the better informed people are, the more they will trust the election," the minister said. He thinks that trust will also affect turnout.