Government allocates further 9 million BGN for machine voting

The Bulgarian government allocated additional BGN 9 million to the Central Election Commission to secure the machine voting for the upcoming elections to the European Parliament on 26 May.

The amount will be used to cover additional costs for the CEC to ensure machine voting in elections.

It should be held in at least 3,000 polling stations in accordance with the Transitional and Concluding Provisions of the law amending the Electoral Code in the process of electing the members of the European Parliament from the Republic of Bulgaria in 2019.

The CEC selected Ciela Norma AD as a public procurement contractor to hire 3,000 specialized devices with software for electronic machine voting installed. The company will also provide logistics and maintenance of the devices to the polling stations in the country and training of personnel to work with them.