Financiarul

A number of 1,327 electoral incidents were registered in the presidential election on November 22 as against 96 offences that were committee during the europarliamentary election on June 7, said spokesman for the Bucharest Police Christian Ciocan on Monday.

One hundred and six of them were offences and 658 incidents occurred in the country and 669 in towns and cities. There were 92 fines to be paid, their value amounting to 188,510 lei.

The most numerous offences referred to the multiple vote (29), followed by rigging or offering money in order to influence the vote (17), deteriorated or missing stamps (10), preventing people from exercising their right to vote (5), introducing an additional number of ballot papers in the ballot boxes (4), destroying or deteriorating electoral materials (2), falsifying documents at the Central Electoral Bureau (2), giving or carrying the ballot box without observing the legal provisions (1).

Chief Inspector Christian Ciocan also made it clear that 19.95 percent of the notifications ex officio were made by workers with the Ministry of Administration and the Interior (MAI), 14.9 percent were made by various parties and 10.14 percent came from the electoral bureaus in Romania and Bucharest.
The most numerous notifications of incidents were made in Bucharest, 159, Dambovita (southern Romania), 112, Olt (southern Romania), 110, Arges (southern Romania), 82, Calarasi (southern Romania), 78, Mures (central Romania), 75, Buzau (southern Romania), 60.

The MA! official emphasized the fact that 810 filters were organized for the election on Sunday, twice as much as for the europarliamentary election. 15,256 motor vehicles were checked in order to detect electoral tourism and the persons suspected of committing these offences.
“Where offences were found out, fines were given for the regime of traffic. The aim of these filters was not to find out some offences in the regime of traffic, but to find and prevent electoral tourism, said Ciocan.

He added that all persons who were identified were to be checked and these data would be sent to the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP).
AEP, at the request of MA!, will compare the lists showing the addresses of the people in question with the additional lists, and if irregularities were found out, remeasures will be taken.