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00:00:00one, only for one
00:00:18As we know, the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina this year will be
00:00:21different than ever before.
00:00:23passport, or travel document, and For the first time, we will vote with biometric
00:00:26voter identification, electronic scanners, and different
00:00:30ballots. Just yesterday and the day before yesterday,
00:00:32the Central Election Commission presented their final appearance.
00:00:36Many citizens still don't know how
00:00:39the act of voting itself will actually
00:00:43look, so we will use the next few minutes as
00:00:46a practical guide through election day, from the moment you
00:00:50arrive at the polling station, through identification and ballot
00:00:53collection, all the way to proper filling and scanning
00:00:57of ballots into scanners or ballot boxes. Our guest
00:01:01is a member of the Central Election Commission, Professor Suad
00:01:04Arnautović. Thank you very much for your time, for
00:01:07all extremely, I would say, important clarifications,
00:01:11and if we can, in the next few minutes, prevent as
00:01:14many invalid ballots as possible, let's do it.
00:01:18Therefore, as we agreed, we will be very
00:01:20simple, expressing ourselves in the simplest possible
00:01:24language, so that this remains, for the next two
00:01:28months, a simple guide for the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
00:01:32So, for the first time, we have what we have been waiting for for a very long time, modern electoral
00:01:35technologies. Let's start from the beginning of election day for
00:01:39citizens when they arrive at the polling station. What will be different
00:01:43during their identification? Thank you
00:01:45very much, good morning, once again, and
00:01:48massive registrations at thank you for the invitation. Uh, so, the first thing that all our
00:01:52citizens, voters with voting rights, need to
00:01:55know is which identification documents
00:01:58they bring with them to the polling station.
00:02:02Uh, so, Article 5, Section 12 of the Election Law stipulates that these
00:02:06are valid, three valid
00:02:09documents: a valid ID card, a valid passport,
00:02:13and a valid driver's license. I emphasize the word
00:02:16"valid," and that's why I ask them to check now if any of these three
00:02:20documents are expiring, if their expiration date has already
00:02:23passed, if that document will expire
00:02:27in the next few weeks. So... "it's very important that the
00:02:31personal document is valid, mhm, and regardless
00:02:34of all technologies, that part doesn't change. That part doesn't change, you know.
00:02:38So, if the document is invalid,
00:02:41the voter will not be able to, because it is a strict legal provision, they would
00:02:45not be able to exercise their voting right. Upon
00:02:48arrival, we now have two procedures, that's
00:02:51the novelty. We have voter identification and their
00:02:55authentication, confirming that it is that person.
00:02:59So, identification is performed
00:03:00must follow those with one of those three personal documents. It is handed to a member
00:03:03of the polling committee who is responsible for identification. They scan the
00:03:07document through this device, which I briefly
00:03:11call AFIS, it is a device that
00:03:15identifies voters through their biometric
00:03:18data stored in the idea, so at the moment you
00:03:22got that document from the Ministry of Internal
00:03:24Affairs, you took a picture and
00:03:28gave your fingerprints. So... your biometric data.
00:03:32I must emphasize for all those, so to speak, skeptics who have
00:03:36tried to dispute this process that
00:03:39the personal data of voters
00:03:43is fully protected in such a way that the picture is not visible
00:03:47at all, there is no image, no fingerprint, but it is an algorithm,
00:03:50so a set of numerical numbers
00:03:54which cannot be converted back into
00:03:58an image. So... that is very important
00:04:02due to some public statements, so to
00:04:05speak, by responsible persons from the Agency for
00:04:09facing, so attached are those Personal Data Protection who have in a way called
00:04:12into question whether this
00:04:15procedure will violate the Law on Personal
00:04:18Data Protection. So, the protection is absolutely incomplete
00:04:21and it is not possible to convert
00:04:24a fingerprint into an image. After the identification
00:04:27is performed,
00:04:30then the authentication of that voter is performed. They must
00:04:33make a fingerprint
00:04:35on the same device
00:04:39of their right index finger,
00:04:42which will match, it will be compiled,
00:04:45so to speak, their data with the biometrics that are already stored
00:04:48in the device, which we received from the ID, right?
00:04:52On the screen, their picture will be shown, and with that, the
00:04:56process is completed. After that, the device prints a slip, a confirmation,
00:05:00which the voter signs and hands to a member of the polling
00:05:03committee. They will put it in a small box, there will be a small
00:05:07box right there, those slips will then be
00:05:11placed in that box. After the end
00:05:14of the entire election day at 7 PM, they will be counted,
00:05:17and also, although the device itself will
00:05:21print the total
00:05:24turnout with all other data, this will be an additional
00:05:27check. So, to repeat once again, personal
00:05:30document, uh, identity card,
00:05:36driver's license, traffic license, these are valid
00:05:39documents. Approaching this...
00:05:43to the polling station, handing
00:05:46over that document, scanning that document through
00:05:49the device, mm, biometric
00:05:52identification through the fingerprint
00:05:54of the right index finger. In case,
00:05:57I should mention, the procedure is exactly known, and all members
00:06:00of the polling committee will know it, especially that person, if they cannot use their right hand,
00:06:04they can use their right thumb, if not, they can use their left index finger, left thumb, and so
00:06:07on. We even have situations that we have prescribed. If biometric
00:06:11identification cannot be performed, the president and a member of the polling committee,
00:06:15with the presence of all, will enable the voter
00:06:19to vote based on their personal document.
00:06:21The next step is to receive
00:06:25a set of ballots. So, ballots are received, there are four
00:06:28in the entire country, except for
00:06:32Brčko District, that option for the Federation. They receive
00:06:36three ballots because they do not vote for any cantonal assembly.
00:06:40"Uh...
00:06:42"When picking up these ballots, a protective
00:06:46folder is also provided, mhm, which serves to
00:06:49maintain the secrecy of the vote. All
00:06:52four ballots are placed in the protective folder, and the voter
00:06:55goes into the booth,
00:06:58the voting booth. There will be a special
00:07:02marker with which they will fill
00:07:04in the circles or circles, as we call them,
00:07:08in front of the political entities. Uh,
00:07:11these four" So, for example, for
00:07:15voters in the Federation, they vote for a member of the Presidency,
00:07:19a Bosniak or a Croat,
00:07:21for the parliamentary assembly, the House of Representatives, for
00:07:24the Federation Parliament and for the cantonal assembly, from that, therefore, four
00:07:28ballots, one is with a majority voting system, that is for
00:07:32members of the Presidency, and he only
00:07:36is obliged, so to speak, I am speaking about the voter, right, to
00:07:39fill in that circle, that circle with that marker. Mhm, so
00:07:43a very simple action, with that he has finished, his choice is one,
00:07:46there is a candidate's name, in front of it is a circle and he circles that
00:07:50circle, right? Do we have new ballot designs from you,
00:07:54yes, I have them here, but I think you are, as
00:07:58far as I can see on the screen, ready,
00:08:01so I will ask the direction while we are talking about individual
00:08:04ones to show for the voter, I don't know which camera
00:08:08is working now, this is for the voter from the Federation.
00:08:12who can vote for one or
00:08:16uh, another member, meaning depending on their
00:08:19choice, it refers to voters who can
00:08:21vote, meaning either for the option
00:08:24Bosniak or for the option Croat from the Federation, but
00:08:28not both, so only
00:08:31candidate. I brought here now, this is a sample and so
00:08:34on. So, here there is a circle in front
00:08:38of the name, it's a very simple action, nothing has changed
00:08:41much here. So, you fill in this
00:08:45circle with the marker for only one candidate for a member of the Presidency.
00:08:49It's the same in Republika Srpska, with
00:08:52the difference that
00:08:54uh
00:08:57uh, so it is also filled in, but I did not point out, and I will
00:09:01do so now, that is the so-called A part of the ballot,
00:09:04because the ballot consists of three, of three,
00:09:08this, of three parts according to the decision of the Central Election Commission, A...
00:09:12B and C. Part A is, therefore, what we said first, part B is the voting
00:09:16instructions. Each ballot, therefore, has
00:09:20part B, mhm, uh, in which there are instructions on
00:09:23how to vote, what I have already said,
00:09:26and that part goes through the scanner. So, A and
00:09:30B part, so to speak, it goes through the scanner, right? Mhm, and
00:09:34therefore, for each level, now we have
00:09:38now we have, that's right, now we have, now we have this
00:09:41proportional system of national representation,
00:09:45which some people are now complicating
00:09:48in public, saying it's complicated and so on. What is
00:09:51it about? Here we need a little more attention compared to
00:09:55the previous one. So, for members of the presidency, considering that the change is very small
00:09:58compared to what we had before. Now, when we talk about
00:10:02other levels, let's start from the state
00:10:05parliament, the changes are a bit more pronounced.
00:10:08So, it's about
00:10:12the ballot containing, so to speak, a left
00:10:16and right side when viewed vertically. On the left side are
00:10:20the names of political entities, so coalitions
00:10:24of political parties and independent candidates. On the right side of that
00:10:27ballot are empty circles with numbers.
00:10:31Now, what are these numbers, what is what, and so on. I would
00:10:34like to point out what is necessary for
00:10:38a ballot to be valid, what is mandatory and what is not mandatory. It is mandatory
00:10:41to circle, to fill in the circle of only one selected
00:10:45political entity, political party, coalition, or independent. That is
00:10:49mandatory, yes. So, once you have chosen a party, you have
00:10:52practically fulfilled your obligation
00:10:56as a voter, your... However, now the question arises, since we have
00:10:59the so-called ordinal preferential ballot,
00:11:03one of the three structural elements of the electoral system
00:11:07of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which allows the voter to now
00:11:10express their preferences on that selected list, so
00:11:14that is only an option, not an obligation. I would prefer, so to
00:11:18speak, especially for the older population,
00:11:21it is enough to circle the party, yes?
00:11:25You just one, let's repeat, it doesn't
00:11:28change because you virtually express
00:11:32loyalty to that political party and trust that
00:11:35it has ranked the candidates properly. However, if
00:11:39you don't really trust that ranking of parties,
00:11:42then you can give up to three preferences
00:11:45on that list for that multi-member
00:11:48constituency, how many candidates, so if
00:11:51people need to know that there are multi-member
00:11:55constituencies. For example, if I vote in Sarajevo for
00:11:59the state parliament, for me it is
00:12:02one list, mhm, or rather, a list, right?
00:12:06The one who votes in the Una-Sana Canton in Bihać has
00:12:09another list, right? Or I don't know, we said
00:12:13we would use simple words, we won't complicate things for that state
00:12:16level. So, there are five multi-member constituencies in the Federation,
00:12:20and three multi-member constituencies in Republika Srpska,
00:12:24and all lists are different. The principle is the following: for example,
00:12:28as many as are elected from, for example, Una-Sana Canton
00:12:32and Livno, that is electoral unit number one for the state level, it
00:12:35elects three state representatives to the state parliament.
00:12:39It is possible for there to be plus five on the list, so
00:12:43it is legally prescribed, 3 plus 5, so eight circles, mhm.
00:12:46Now, when you choose a party in the first
00:12:49step, it has its three candidates,
00:12:53right, and
00:12:55plus five, as the law allowed." There are eight circles, mhm, and now
00:12:58you can, therefore, combine. You are not satisfied with how
00:13:02the party you chose ranked the first three,
00:13:06but you want the one at number eight or
00:13:08six or then, and
00:13:11now some people are problematizing how voters will manage and so
00:13:15on. So, that's where the third part of the ballot comes to the rescue,
00:13:19part C, right, where the complete
00:13:23names are. So, you
00:13:25names. The easiest way, I repeat
00:13:28once again, is when you choose a party, you have finished
00:13:32the job, right? But if you want to
00:13:36insist on a specific candidate,
00:13:40then you must consult this candidate list
00:13:43which you receive together with those, those
00:13:47four ballots, right, or with those combinations, with
00:13:50that protective folder. We will go to that, right, to
00:13:54have... and large posters in the voting
00:13:57booths themselves, before that, I hope we will all together
00:14:01familiarize ourselves with all those lists. So, it is very important where you
00:14:04are, for whom you want to
00:14:08vote, mhm, and when you have
00:14:10finished marking,
00:14:14you uh place all four ballots back
00:14:18in the folder, turn them face down, right, you leave, all
00:14:21this will be instructed by the members of the polling committee, you go to the scanner
00:14:25and one by one, slowly, slowly
00:14:28you push them through the scanner, you push them through the scanner, right,
00:14:34A and B ballots, that's right, or one for each
00:14:38level that has a B side, those are four ballots, just to clarify once again,
00:14:41so, if we are talking about the state
00:14:44parliament, then the state parliament, each ballot that has
00:14:48a front and back side, mhm, and side B
00:14:51on how to vote in addition, and that goes through the scanner, this.
00:14:55The third part, C, the candidate lists, do not go through the scanner, because
00:14:59it is actually a booklet that has many pages.
00:15:01stranica.
00:15:09It is mandatory to circle the party, political party,
00:15:12coalition, independent, that is mandatory, because in the
00:15:16other case, if you only circled this choice, only these
00:15:19numbers on side B, then it would not be
00:15:22known to whom those numbers, which candidates
00:15:25belong, right? Then it would be an invalid list, mhm.
00:15:29So, the simplest principle, honestly, because it's
00:15:33a big, let's say, step towards closing the ballots,
00:15:36because... "if you want to skip this from
00:15:39the eighth place and come to the first, you must win
00:15:4320%
00:15:46of valid ballots that the party has already
00:15:48won. So, for 100 ballots, you need two, for
00:15:52100,000, you now need 20,000, 20%
00:15:56of personal preferences. That's a bit of a mitigating circumstance for
00:16:00all candidates. The golden rule would be, and the party will probably
00:16:03give it that way, when you circle the party..."
00:16:07or coalition, you have practically
00:16:10finished, so to speak, your obligation. You approach the scanner,
00:16:14the scanner automatically feeds,
00:16:18scans that ballot and you have finished the job. You return
00:16:22that folder, that
00:16:23that
00:16:26protective folder, that C part of the ballot and
00:16:30you leave the polling station. Let me say that that
00:16:34scanner will operate in...
00:16:38mode, so, offline mode, it will not be connected to
00:16:41the internet. From 7:00 to 19:00, upon
00:16:45completion of its
00:16:48work at the polling station, when the polling station closes,
00:16:51the scanner will be connected, it will first print a
00:16:54slip, this one, which will contain all the results by parties, candidates
00:16:58and all statistics. That slip will be signed by the members of the polling
00:17:02committee and then the scanner will be turned on, those
00:17:05results will be sent to uh, that is that
00:17:09electronic transmission of results sent to
00:17:12the main counting center, the main server, right, in Sarajevo.
00:17:16So, I know it's a somewhat trivial question, but it's still
00:17:20asked. That scanner cannot read immediately on the spot if the voter
00:17:23made a mistake or anything similar. We will
00:17:27get its results, so to speak, which will be used as preliminary,
00:17:30about an hour and a half after the polling stations close. That's it, then
00:17:34after that, they start.
00:17:42Well, even if some ballots are invalid, if, for example, the
00:17:46voter marked two subjects and so on,
00:17:49that would certainly be an invalid ballot, but generally the scanner records
00:17:53everything and nothing else can be changed.
00:17:57Those results are sent and those are preliminary results with
00:18:00which the public operates.
00:18:04After that, the procedure of manual counting immediately begins.
00:18:08The legislator prescribed that, now it's a different procedure. So, let's go back
00:18:11to this, if we were perhaps not clear enough,
00:18:15it is enough to say that the voter must
00:18:18have valid personal documents, that they must perform
00:18:22authentication, that they vote with four
00:18:25ballots, yes, let me mention that in Republika Srpska, it is also a member
00:18:28of the Presidency, right, also the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and
00:18:32Herzegovina, but in addition to that, also the National Assembly of Republika Srpska and
00:18:35the President and Vice Presidents of the Federation.
00:18:38So, the voter in Republika Srpska has two ballots
00:18:41which are,
00:18:44whose content is a majority vote, meaning for
00:18:47a member of the Presidency and for the President and
00:18:50Vice President of the Federation, a completely simple ballot,
00:18:54so you just fill in the circle, that's all, you don't have
00:18:57any further activities, and for this system of proportional
00:19:00representation, if you circle a party, you have also
00:19:04finished the job, but if you want an intervention, then... this is the other
00:19:08step, where you need to know the structure
00:19:11of the names of the candidates you want
00:19:14to prefer. Mhm, mm, I
00:19:17believe that many are still convinced that they will need more help
00:19:21than before. The help of one person is allowed, let's clarify
00:19:25if anything has changed in that regard compared to previous
00:19:28rules? In principle, therefore, nothing, it is the help
00:19:31of another person, meaning only one person can help
00:19:35one other person.
00:19:37"Multiple assistance cannot be, right? It will also
00:19:41be recorded in all our forms,
00:19:43on printers, on
00:19:46printouts, on... that person will also
00:19:49have to sign with their personal
00:19:52data, this voter who
00:19:55helped, that person who helped the voter. Nothing
00:19:59has changed there, some documentation is needed,
00:20:02so there is a
00:20:05procedure uh"
00:20:07completely prescribed, customary for
00:20:11other categories too, which I won't elaborate on now, these
00:20:15are voting through a mobile team where documentation is required
00:20:18for a sick person to whom
00:20:22a mobile team comes on site and so on, but
00:20:26these four steps are very important, let's remember that.
00:20:30Uh, look, in the coming period
00:20:33we expect political parties and media, like
00:20:37you, to get involved so that this is as close as possible to every
00:20:41single voter.
00:20:44I repeat, this is a very simple
00:20:47procedure, a very simple procedure.
00:20:50Um, except for this part which might
00:20:54complicate things for someone, since it's
00:20:57new, but if we intensively explain it to voters for the next
00:21:00two months, I think it won't be that
00:21:04complicated in the end, especially since it's not obligatory
00:21:08for you to use preferences, to choose individual
00:21:11candidates for the state parliament, for the federal parliament, for cantonal
00:21:15assemblies, that's right, because if I choose a party,
00:21:18you know why would I now doubt
00:21:22the leadership of that party which made
00:21:24the ranking, why? I mean, that's how
00:21:28I would want someone to enter and here you will
00:21:31certainly see that there will be appearances, but that is already in the political sphere, that is no longer
00:21:35this educational part, so to speak, this, how much
00:21:38will those on the candidate list be engaged, how much will
00:21:42they be engaged if, for example, they are in eighth place, mhm,
00:21:45compared to the one who is in first place, and so on, whether they will be engaged
00:21:49at all, and so on. Here, now, questions
00:21:52are opening up, political questions, political in nature, political
00:21:55activities of political parties, I will not go deeper into
00:21:59that. The principle is, therefore, if the voter circles
00:22:03a party, that is a valid ballot, they are not obliged at all to take
00:22:06this other step, but if they wish, the legislator
00:22:10gave them that option, yes, but only one party, let's reiterate, never enough,
00:22:14only one party, only one, only one party. So, a vote for two
00:22:18parties automatically means that the ballot
00:22:20is void. That's the same as it has been so far, the same as before,
00:22:24if you vote for two members of the presidency or
00:22:26two two individual candidates, for example, on the list
00:22:30for president and vice president of RS, that ballot will also be
00:22:34invalid. We only have a few minutes left until the end of the conversation,
00:22:38I need to finish quickly, so let's mention a few
00:22:41more important pieces of information. Namely, for all of this
00:22:44to function as it should, you need a serious number of
00:22:48operators across Bosnia and Herzegovina.
00:22:50So, people who will go through special training to help
00:22:53at the polling station, the polling committee, everyone
00:22:57who will vote using new technologies. You need close to
00:23:01400 operators throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.
00:23:053,997 will work for a monetary compensation
00:23:09that is not bad, 310 convertible marks. So,
00:23:12an appeal to all of them to somehow apply for our competition that we
00:23:15announced, yes? So, what needs to be known, in addition to three
00:23:19or five members of the polling committee who are appointed
00:23:23members of the election administration bodies, we will also have this technical support. So,
00:23:27in every polling station there will be one operator who will be
00:23:30responsible, who will arrive at 6 AM along with the members of the polling committees to help
00:23:34install the devices, check their functionality,
00:23:38print out that zero copy to see that it's all zero and so
00:23:42on. These are technical personnel. In addition
00:23:45to that, we will also have technicians, uh, field
00:23:48technicians, mm... support who will
00:23:51also be like a mobile team, so to speak, who will be organized
00:23:55by the company, who will be responsible for
00:23:58intervention at every polling station if there is
00:24:02ballot jamming, some delays, and so on, and so
00:24:05on. Let's also turn to the campaign,
00:24:09so the other side of the story. Transparency International
00:24:12yesterday announced that about 1,200
00:24:16examples of potential misuse of public
00:24:19resources have been recorded, that such examples were reported
00:24:23to the Central Election Commission, so many of them,
00:24:26but that the CEC only punished a few.
00:24:29How do you respond to them? Well, thank you for that question, you see, I would like
00:24:33to hear that Transparency International in the past
00:24:37or now has spoken about a very important matter,
00:24:41which is how it is that
00:24:44the law provides for an absurd
00:24:48norm in Article 2.11, paragraph 3, last sentence, that
00:24:51our rulebook on systematization and internal organization
00:24:55is given by the Council of Ministers. consent, which
00:24:58effectively annuls the independent position of the Central
00:25:02Election Commission. The Council of Ministers without any explanation did not
00:25:05give consent to our regulations on internal organization,
00:25:09first, it was prepared for a long time, which would enable a sufficient number
00:25:13of engaged people, lawyers, others who would work on these
00:25:16cases. Let me tell you, therefore that famous
00:25:20Article 7.2, it has three paragraphs, in the second paragraph it has
00:25:23eight sub-points, points, right,
00:25:26eight, paragraph two has eight points where the situations
00:25:30of mm abuse of public funds
00:25:34and resources are widely explained, so you would have to have
00:25:38teams of investigators, inspectors who would, for example,
00:25:42abuse of public funds in terms of using
00:25:45helicopters, cars and so on, the vehicle
00:25:48fleet or I don't know. people who do that
00:25:51so-called official campaign,
00:25:54so the short answer is, as many
00:25:58people as we have available, because we were given, you know, the High Representative
00:26:02gave us new tasks, new norms, mhm, new
00:26:06obligations, the organization and systematization
00:26:09from 20 years ago remained, yes, but they say that you are more tolerant than in
00:26:13previous ones, no, we simply can't keep up, if you have 200 cases, you understand
00:26:17currently and every day 10 new ones come and so on, and
00:26:20you have a limited number of I don't know, five lawyers, you simply
00:26:24can't keep up with that, so with all due respect and
00:26:27consideration and it is probably true
00:26:30that 99% of them are right when they criticize
00:26:33this, but simply, one should
00:26:36face reality, because in order for you to perform, you must
00:26:40fulfill, as I say, in English, LBP, so
00:26:43you have law, you have law, you have budget, you have money, as
00:26:47the former president provided us, but the third thing, people,
00:26:50you don't have people and you are simply faced with what
00:26:54you have, mhm, and the last question for the end, just in a few
00:26:57sentences and because of numerous readers who sent us emails,
00:27:01let's try to clarify.
00:27:03You say you don't have people, we are talking about people, again, voters
00:27:07from the diaspora, you yourself said that you are disappointed
00:27:10with the turnout, even 20,000 fewer citizens will
00:27:13vote in these elections compared to the general elections in 2022
00:27:17from the diaspora, certain groups from the diaspora even wrote to
00:27:21the European Union to try to somehow address the problem
00:27:24and solve it, very briefly how do you explain what
00:27:27happened? It is a conflict of several
00:27:31factors, so to speak. Several factors, one of one of
00:27:34those factors is that we introduced strict procedures that are really
00:27:38bureaucratic and so on, but we had to do it
00:27:41and the law gave us authorization
00:27:45for diaspora registration because we had all sorts of things, we had massive,
00:27:50addresses of gas stations, public institutions and so on and so
00:27:54on, so we in those
00:27:57procedures somewhat bureaucratized the whole thing, but
00:28:01we brought it to to this...
00:28:04to full legality, besides
00:28:07that there is this political factor, how much the political parties
00:28:10were engaged, right? Because we explain
00:28:14uh how to vote, we explain
00:28:17the procedure, but political entities should explain
00:28:21and communicate with voters in the diaspora to answer
00:28:25the question why to vote, why to vote for them, so there is also a responsibility there, we also have other factors,
00:28:28right, how much is the participation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, our embassies and so
00:28:32on, we don't have a single example that in the embassy
00:28:36mm assistance
00:28:39to our citizens in the diaspora for registration is provided, we didn't
00:28:42notice that, so that you have on Saturday, it seems our ambassador in
00:28:46France announced
00:28:47and
00:28:50in a way issued a strong warning to the CEC, if I may say so,
00:28:53she says that citizens in France had technical problems
00:28:57and rejections because of what they submitted in the form of bills,
00:29:01payment for utility services. "as proof that it's them, that they live at that
00:29:05address, that's strictly prescribed, you know, you must have a certificate from
00:29:08the host country that you live at that address,
00:29:12meaning, and in different countries it
00:29:15is very, very clearly specified, for example
00:29:19a driver's license in Australia has a home
00:29:22address on it, that's sufficient proof, but already
00:29:25some statement, certificate and so on is
00:29:27less verifiable, there must be
00:29:31a clear law." for the future, it should be, it's already late and
00:29:34let me tell you right away, we had a lot of complaints, the regular
00:29:38court, today we receive confirmations, the court confirms the decisions
00:29:42of the Central Election Commission, so, uh,
00:29:45some people are not right who
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