Bulgarian Electoral Body Seeks to Assuage Voting Fraud Fears

Bulgaria’s electoral body has assured citizens that Sunday’s crucial general election in the country will be fair.

Central Electoral Committee spokesman Biser Troyanov told bTV on Sunday that the 300 000 questionable ballots discovered by prosecutors and security agents on the eve of the Election Day have been seized and will not be used in the vote.

Troyanov also reminded that the first official voter turnout data will be revealed around 11:30 am EET.

A scandal erupted on the eve of the election day, as local authorities stormed a printing house and seized 350,000 illegally printed ballots just hours before the vote.

The questionable ballots were seized from the premises of Multiprint, the company commissioned by the government to print the official election ballots.

Multiprint is owned by a municipal councilor from the center-right GERB party.

Bulgarians are voting in a tight snap election in which no party is expected to win a majority to form a government. Recent opinion polls indicate that GERB and the Bulgarian Socialist Party are nearly tied.

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