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17 pages must be written by a CEC to count the votes.

It takes more than half an hour and then 15 minutes of checking.

That's roughly how long it took to count in front of the CCTV.

The whole process took 2.5 hours in total, and on the front ballot, a note came out of the machine in 3 minutes, then there was no need for textbooks.

This is what Tsvetelina Peneva from the Public Council of the CEC told Nova News.

According to her, there were blocked machines, as well as printing white sheets - because they were not made to print on them.

"The report from the machine was eliminated with the changes to the Electoral Code, but the CEC could also generate such a report. Now the machines generated the number of voters who voted. I guess there was also a lack of technological time for tests, probably the paper was not tested enough. In the local elections it will be far more complicated, in Sofia the vote will be 4 to 1, there will be 4 more protocols. The possibility of machine processing of the results of the machine voting must be preserved," she is categorical.

A voting machine smoked in Dobrichko

As an observer Stoil Stoilov monitors the CEC and remains convinced that the Commission has not fulfilled one of the most important conditions - to create a training unit for a sufficient number of people who are ready to fill the places in the election administration.

"Without any training, it cannot be done. I voted with paper because I am a fan of the paper ballot. 193 countries in the world vote on paper. The Bulgarian election process is long and complicated. It must be decided whether to continue with a mixed vote, to choose one of the two. The election day should be shorter - until 4-5 in the afternoon," he pointed out.

According to him, the machines drove out 600,000 people.

"This is the fifth election within 2 years, people are tired of them," believes Stoilov.

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2023 election