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Political parties will have access to the information from the voting machines

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The representatives of the political parties in the elections will be given access to the source code of the software for the voting machines. This was announced by the Ministry of Electronic Government. 

Despite the expressed doubts of many of the political parties regarding machine voting, this does not, however, reflect in their desire to participate in the establishment of the process. 

According to Deputy Minister Blagovest Kirilov, the department expected greater interest from the parties to follow the preparations, but in practice they did not come to check what was actually happening.



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