site.btaUPDATED Parliament Concludes Passage of Election Code Amendments

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Voting conclusively on Election Code amendments on Thursday, Parliament decided to have the Central Election Commission (CEC) grant access to the voting machines' source code to those parties that have passed the 4% threshold for entering Parliament in the previous general elections. CEC shall also grant access to the electronic system's documents, all other software tools applicable to the election process, including those for data entry and calculating the election results to persons designated by the parties and coalitions that have surpassed the 4% threshold. 

Earlier on Thursday, MPs adopted the Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee's proposal to allow voters the option of voting with a paper or machine ballot. 

Voting on draft revisions to the Election Code on Thursday, Parliament approved conclusively that voters can either choose to vote by paper or machine ballot. 

Protesters against proposed Election Code amendments which reinstate the paper ballot briefly blocked traffic in front of the National Assembly building on Tuesday evening. Their stance is that a potential return of this method of voting will bring back the controlled vote and the substantial number of invalid ballots.

Continue the Change co-leader and former prime minister Kiril Petkov and Bulgarian Socialist Party MP Georgi Svilenski Sunday continued their dispute about who said what about machine voting codes during a long parliamentary sitting on Friday which