Tag: sec
Macedonia 21.07.20 | 21:48

Parties begin to file charges before the Administrative Court, claiming election day violations

The Administrative Court received 75 charges from the Alliance of Albanians and their coalition partner Alternative, who claim instances of ballot stuffing and intimidation that took place on election day. The Integra party also submitted a charge, as did an individual citizen, for violations of his...

Macedonia 20.07.20 | 23:08

Derkoski says that the parties did not provide evidence for the allegations of ballot stuffing

Oliver Derkovski, the head of the State Election Commission, said that the SEC rejected all complaints submitted over the chaotic early general elections because there was no evidence to back up the claims of ballot stuffing and vote rigging. – That was our problem. The complaints required more...

Macedonia 20.07.20 | 17:21

Parties expected to turn to the Administrative Court after the Electoral Commission dismisses their complaints

After the State Electoral Commission (SEC) quickly dismissed all over 2,000 objections and complaints filed by the parties for the conduct of the elections and especially for the vote-counting process, the parties are now expected to turn to the Administrative Court. The SEC rejected the key demand from...

Macedonia 19.07.20 | 22:32

All 2,000 complaints about the conduct of the elections hastily rejected

In a matter of hours, State Electoral Commission (SEC) voted to reject all objections and complaints it received from the parties that participated in the early general elections. This includes the key requests from VMRO-DPMNE for a manual recount of the ballots. The elections on Wednesday were marked...

Macedonia 19.07.20 | 11:27

Election Commission begins to deliberate on voting irregularities and on the VMRO request for a manual recount

The State Electoral Commission begins to review the over 2.000 complaints it received from the political parties about the conduct of the early general elections, and especially their chaotic aftermath that raised serious doubts about the accuracy of the count. The bulk of the received complaints come...

Macedonia 18.07.20 | 22:14

Levica submitted nearly 2.000 complaints to the electoral commission

The leftist Levica party submitted nearly 2.000 objections to the State Electoral Commission on the conduct of the early general elections. The SEC also received over 150 complaints from the Alliance of Albanians, as well as the main request – for a complete manual recount of the ballots submitted...

Macedonia 18.07.20 | 19:40

SEC receives more than 150 complaints, and a request for mass hand recount

The Alliance of Albanians submitted additional over 70 complaints about the course of voting on Wednesday, as the party protests what it calls serious intimidation and ballot stuffing on the part of DUI and SDSM – its direct rivals for the Albanian vote. There are now over 150 complaints that the...

Macedonia 18.07.20 | 10:36

SEC head Derkoski stands by the preliminary results

The head of the State Electoral Commission Oliver Derkoski insisted that the election results the SEC eventually published on Thursday evening are authentic. Wednesday’s early general election saw chaos ensue over the vote counting process, as the SEC website crashed due to an alleged hacking attack...

Macedonia 18.07.20 | 10:28

VMRO demands manual recount of the votes

VMRO-DPMNE submitted two objections to the State Electoral Commission (SEC), covering the counting of the votes in the messy early general elections held on Wednesday. The key request from VMRO-DPMNE is a manual recount of the votes, given the chaos that ensued in the reporting of the results. The SEC...

Macedonia 17.07.20 | 22:06

SEC receives 82 complaints, deadline expires

The State Election Commission (SEC) received late Friday another 77 complaints, which brings the total to 82. The Alliance for Albanians has submitted 74 complaints, VMRO-DPMNE-2 and Voice for Macedonia-1. Earlier, Democrats, Workers’ Party-MORO, SDU and Integra submitted five complaints, while United...

Macedonia 17.07.20 | 20:40

SEC is missing 2 013 ballots?

According to the published “Conclusion for publishing the voting results” in Wednesday’s early parliamentary elections, based on data from the hardcopy forms of the municipal election commissions the SEC has established the following: – Total number of voters registered in the...

Macedonia 17.07.20 | 18:25

SEC publishes the election data from all polling stations on Google Drive

As the SEC is not yet able to publish the election data on their website, the data has been published on Google Drive. You can see the data at the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WOzcYkzl5gVi_P0HOcDhOtpt9Ch5_6Uf/view

Macedonia 17.07.20 | 17:03

Five complaints submitted to SEC

The State Election Commission (SEC) received five complaints and a request for inspection of invalid ballots by Friday afternoon. Democrats, Workers’ Party-MORO, SDU and Integra have submitted the complaints, while United Macedonia filed a request for inspection in the invalid ballots. The deadline...

Macedonia 17.07.20 | 09:08

Parties prepare for legal action after chaotic election

After the total disarray during the vote counting process, political parties are announcing they will file complaints to the State Electoral Commission. Opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski said that the legal team in his VMRO-DPMNE party is preparing their list of objections to the process. The ruling...

Macedonia 16.07.20 | 21:40

Janusev: SEC is recounting the votes at VMRO-DPMNE’s request

At the request of VMRO-DPMNE, the SEC is recounting the results from the hardcopy forms, in order to remove all possibilities for any irregularities regarding the election results. We have information that the numbers of the results entered in the SEC system do not correspond with the exact numbers entered...

Macedonia 16.07.20 | 20:35

SEC with final unofficial results: SDSM wins 46 MP seats, VMRO-DPMNE-44, DUI-15, AA/A-12, Levica-2, DPA-1

The State Election Commission announced Thursday the unofficial final results of yesterday’s early parliamentary elections. SDSM-led coalition “We Can” has won 46 MP seats, the VMRO-DPMNE-led coalition – 44 MP seats, Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) -15, Alliance for Albanians/Alternativa...

Macedonia 16.07.20 | 15:40

Police investigating the attack on the SEC website which undermined the elections

The Interior Ministry said that it is looking for the perpetrators of the hacking attack on the State Electoral Commission which threw the vote counting process in disarray and raised doubts in the veracity of the process. The SEC website, which is used to inform the public in detail about the turnout...

Macedonia 16.07.20 | 13:52

Fire in the vehicle carrying ballots from Gostivar to Skopje

As if the chaos surrounding the vote counting process after Macedonia’s elections was not bad enough, given the alleged hacking attack on the State Electoral Commission and the delayed publication of the results, a car transporting votes from Gostivar to Skopje caught fire overnight. Tetovo police...

Macedonia 16.07.20 | 13:40

Highly unusual results coming from the Election Commission throw the vote counting process in doubt

The website of the State Electoral Commission continues to be down, after the alleged hacking attack last evening, but in the brief periods it goes up it creates even more confusion in the public. Several screen shots from the website show results that are completely out of the realm of any previous...

Macedonia 16.07.20 | 11:54

Message from an alleged hack group sent to the Time.mk news aggregator

A message from an allegedly Macedonian nationalist hack group was sent to the Time.mk news aggregator which was hacked yesterday, just as the public was plugging in to view the results of the early general elections. It was the second of the two major website failures of the evening – the first,...

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