site.btaAuthorities Complete Technical Certification of Voting Machines

The Ministry of Innovation and Digital Transformation Friday announced the completion of certification of the type of voting machines to be used in the presidential elections on October 25, 2026.

The Minister of Innovation and Digital Transformation, the acting President of the Bulgarian Institute of Metrology, and the Chair of the Management Board of the Bulgarian Institute for Standardization issued a Decision on the certification of the voting machines for the upcoming elections. The decision was issued on the basis of the technical reports prepared by the certification teams working at the three institutions, MIDT specified.

The decision certifying the compliance of the machines the Election Code and the requirements of the technical specification has been published on the Ministry's website. The decision is accompanied by the Conformity Assessment Report, which sets out the results and findings from the process of assessing the machines' compliance.

To ensure that the certification process was as professional, verifiable and open as possible, the Ministry of Innovation conducted a transparent selection procedure to engage qualified external experts, who also took part in the process.

The report and the decision have been sent to the Central Election Commission (CEC).

CEC Chair Georgi Horozov said on Thursday that once the Commission received the report and the decision, the software would be installed on the voting machines, followed by their verification.