site.btaGERB Leader Says He Is "Strong Proponent of Machine Voting", Will Do His Best to Make Sure Machines Stay in Elections

GERB leader Boyko Borissov said here Thursday that he is "a strong proponent of voting machines". "I will do my best to make sure they stay in the elections," he said.

He was answering reporters' questions in the corridors of Parliament.

Former Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov said a couple of days ago as he handed over his office that "there will be two signs of whether or not the caretaker Cabinet will succeed: one is whether or not there will be machine voting in the elections and the other the share of invalid ballots". "Experience has shown that without voting machines the share of invalid ballots is so big that it casts a shadow on the election results," said Denkov. He urged Parliament "not to get tempted to revise the Election Code because it would cast a shadow on the elections even if it is done with the best of intentions".

During the 2023 local elections, GERB, together with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms and There Is Such a People eliminated voting machines from the first round of voting after a row over software security breach.