Electoral Committee Completes Review of Standard Challenges
The National Electoral Committee finished reviewing voter challenges for the parliamentary elections held on March 6.
A final challenge - a university student's request to annul the results of internet voting system, which he asserts is flawed - was taken up by the Supreme Court, and will likely be resolved next week, according to ERR radio.
Once the court has made a decision, the election committee can announce the official results. After that, Parliament will have 10 days to convene for its first session.
The election committee announced last week that it had received five challenges, about the same as in previous years. Two challenges reviewed by the election committee were rejected, while the remainder qualified as memos. For example, one voter objected to the practice of distributing "compensation mandates," a system by which when a candidate receives more votes than needed, his or her votes are given to another candidate in the same party. The electoral committee's reasoning for rejecting this particular challenge was that it does not have the authority to change or interpret the law.
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