A step towards preventing the regime’s major electoral fraud: Phantom voters will not be able to vote in Belgrade or in places where they do not actually live? – Elections 2024

According to Zoran Alimpić, a permanent member of the City Election Commission of Belgrade and an official of the Democratic Party, this agreement should be formalized within the framework of the working group that should probably prepare an amendment to the Law on Local Elections.

– That amendment probably refers to Article 3. of the Law on Local Elections in which it is written that the right to elect councilors and to be elected as a councilor belongs to a voter who resides in the territory of the local self-government unit in which he exercises the right to vote – Alimpić explains to Danas.

Here, it is only necessary to add that the voter has that right only after the appropriate deadline has passed, which will be agreed upon, he adds.

– If the change enters into force and is applied to the elections scheduled for June 2, 2024, it would mean that voters who changed their place of residence after October 2 or June 2, 2023 will not be able to vote in local elections where they have a new registered address. residence already in the municipality or city where they had their previous residence – points out our interlocutor.

According to him, in this way, it would be impossible for a large number of voters who are suspected to be theirs residence changed fictitiouslyjust for the sake of voting in local elections, will not be able to vote in the place of their new residence, which would partially neutralize this type of electoral fraud.

– I say partially, because it depends on what exact deadline is agreed upon and when certain voters are formally transferred. Some who were falsely transferred from municipalities that did not have elections on December 17, 2023 to municipalities that did, will now not be able to vote in their real municipalities even though they will be formally returned home – emphasizes Zoran Alimpić.

Of course, he further points out, in order for this measure to have a real effect, it needs to be complete voter list it is controlled by a special commission agreed in principle, but not yet formed, which should have executive powers.

– Because, if the list is still controlled only by those who carried out fictitious relocations and electoral theft in December, there will be no guarantee that the dates of the change of residence will be correct and that they will not be adjusted subsequently, because everything is controlled through software and databases data that is under the complete control of people from the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Interior, which, given everything that happened in December, cannot be trusted – he concludes.