The leader of ITN Slavi Trifonov published on his Facebook page explanations why voting machines with scanning devices are the best option for voting in Bulgaria. Here is his analysis on the topic:
Now I will write an explanatory text in which I will explain why voting machines with scanning devices are the best option for voting in Bulgaria. No falsification, no manipulation and why do they vote with such machines in the USA.
So:
First - When voting on a machine with a scanning device, the voter receives the paper ballot and marks with an X the party for which he is voting.
Second - He places the completed ballot in the scanning device. The machine scans it and the ballot falls into the ballot box. At this moment, the machine counts the vote cast and counts who was voted for.
Third - If the voter has made a mistake, for example, he crossed out the box or filled in two boxes, during the scan the machine returns the ballot to him as incorrect. It is destroyed and a new ballot is given to him to vote.
Fourth - After the end of election day, the machine prints a paper protocol, which shows the number of ballots in the ballot box and which party received how many votes. And the ballots remain in the SEALED ballot box. Thus, the printed protocol and the sealed ballot box with ballots go to the Regional Election Commission and there, only there, the data is entered.
Conclusion:
Thus, the people in the commissions in the polling stations neither write protocols and accordingly cannot falsify and replace them, nor count ballots and accordingly cannot destroy, scratch or make them invalid. For example, in the last parliamentary elections, the number of invalid ballots was 51,791, that is, an entire Bulgarian city was crossed out as voters. Can you imagine - 51,791 people were screwed as voters.
So it should be clear: fraud and manipulation of machines with scanning devices are impossible.
On the other hand, no one can hack the machine's software and generate fake votes for any party - something that was proven in other countries using the so-called “madurovki“.
Now answer yourself which parties are against it. Are those whose members in the commissions rewrite protocols, add to and destroy ballots, as well as those who played with the machine software, offered the codes of the “madurovki“ machines, and whose deputy minister of electronic governance illegally filmed the process of generating codes and downloaded it to his phone?
You are smart - you will judge for yourself. I know that in Bulgaria everyone understands everything, but the electoral process is one of the most important things for democracy. Our vote must be fairly counted and “There are such people” is doing everything possible to make this happen.
So you, who are reading this text, can now safely judge who is wrong and who is right.