Election day for president and vice president began calmly in Haskovo region. All polling stations are open in its 11 municipalities, said Ina Veskova, head of the regional election commission (RIK 29) in Haskovo, after the municipalities confirmed that every station had opened.
On Wednesday, the Haskovo commission presented its "Step by Step" guidelines at a media meeting at the BTA National Press Club. They are based on instructions from the Central Election Commission (CIK) and are meant to help people through the voting process.
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The voting machine at polling station 130 in Haskovo has a technical fault, so voters there use paper ballots. Four other machines in Haskovo municipality did not start because the time had to be changed. Veskova said they are not broken and will start once technicians fix the problem.
Ten members of polling station commissions did not show up and were replaced. There are 21 Information Services teams.
The latest figures show 225,051 people in the region have the right to vote. There are 468 regular polling stations, four of them in social care and health facilities and in the remand prison in Haskovo. Seven mobile stations serve people with disabilities. In all, 3,805 people sit on the polling station commissions.
A total of 125 stations use paper ballots only. Another 291 have one machine each, and 59 have two.