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A repetition of last year's events at the Kostinbrod state printing house is impossible, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) says.
Its Deputy Chair Mariya Musorlieva explained that the current Election code, which was adopted by the previous government, has stepped up security within the printing process, since all ballots are to be printed by the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), website Dariknews.bg reports.
Musorlieva made her comments during a meeting of Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki with representatives of CEC and the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) at which the forthcoming early elections on October 5 topped the agenda.
CEM member Mariya Stoyanova stressed her institution would also oversee the run-up to the vote to make sure the events around the Kostinbrod affair would not be repeated.
On May 11, hours before Bulgarians were to go to the polls, some 350 000 "fake ballots" were seized by the State Agency for National Security (DANS) at the printing house in the town of Kostinbrod.
Allegations were then directed at center-right GERB, the government of which had stepped down 3 months earlier, that it was seeking to use the ballots in a massive vote manipulation.
A number of experts then criticized the media coverage of the Kostinbrod affair, with Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov appearing live on a private national TV station hours before the vote to comment on the developments.
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