site.btaTISP Urges Bulgarians to Use Paper Ballots in Elections

There Is Such a People (TISP), formerly part of the GERB-led government coalition, Wednesday urged Bulgarians to use paper ballots in the April 19 snap parliamentary elections. "We have suspicions about the voting machines, Bulgarian people who don't want to have their vote stolen, should better vote with a paper ballot in the upcoming elections,"  TISP floor leader Toshko Yoradanov said in the corridors of Parliament after a hearing on the preparation of the elections.

He claimed that "the problem with this type of machines is that the software can be easily changed without any government control".

He also said that his party backed 100% machine voting without being aware of the glitches.

Yordanov now argues in favour of ballot scanning machines.

His party also wants to see Electronic Governance Minister George Sharkov replaced over "total ignorance about the processes of certification and preparation of the voting machines", to use the words of deputy floor leader Stanislav Balabanov.

He also mentioned President Iliana Iotova, calling her "an accidental president" and urging her to say out what members of the caretaker Cabinet she was unhappy with. 

Earlier in the parliamentary day, TISP demanded that every single voting machine checked before the election day, rather than only some, and Balabanov expressed certainty that these won't be fair elections as "political and economic circles close to Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria have taken the machine voting in their hands".