500,000 voting documents to be reprinted after epic proofing error
Voting documents carry signature of former Electoral Commissioner, not current chief Salvu Gauci’s.
15 January 2013, 12:00am
Matthew Vella
Matthew Vella
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Voting documents for the 9 March election will not be distributed immediately since the Electoral Commission will have to reprint some 500,000 voting documents.
The reason, MaltaToday is informed, is that the voting documents carry the signature of former chief electoral commissioner Edward Gatt, and not Salvu Gauci's.
Gauci has been in office for the past five years, having also been the person who validated the documents for the 2011 divorce referendum and recent local council elections.
The error is only made worse by the fact that the voting documents include both those for the general and the local council elections.
This is the first time that a rolling register will be used for a general election - however voting documents for the local council elections will only be based on the electoral register last updated in September 2012.
Altogether, there are half a million documents that must be distributed: 332,000 for the general elections, and some 175,000 documents for the local councils.
Only four days ago, the Electoral Commission started notifying persons registered as voters in Gozo to collect their documents from Malta if they so wished.
Matthew Vella, a freelance journalist at MaltaToday, was formerly executive editor at Malt...
Rita Pizzuto •
Ma tarawiex tinten din? Nittama li min ghandu niccekkja jaghmel Dan bir-reqqa. tant ta' GonziPN jinsabu b'denbhom bejn saqajhom li minn bollox se jaghlu ibex icahhduna minn govern onset u li jaghtina gejjieni li bih nistghu nittamaw, FHA Ina u ghal uliedna.
Priscilla Darmenia •
I just hope it is not some trick to have an unfair election
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IMMA DAN LISBALL POSSIBLI IVA JISTA IKUN GHAX FMALTA KOLLOX POSSIBLI
LANQAS NAF JEKK NIBKIX JEW NIDHAK?? HU MINN HU RESPONSABBLI GHAL DAN ??? TAFUHA IR RISPOSTA HADT !!!!BHAS SOLTU
HU KEMM SE JISWEW DAWN BIEX JERGU JGHAMLUHOM !!!!!
PROFESJONALITA TAL MICKY MOUSE
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Yet another GonziPN cock-up. We REALLY do have to get rid of this blatant incompetence.
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Let's hope PL will make sure none of these votes end up in the ballot boxes instead of being destroyed. Gonzipn will resort to anything to foul up the elections.
Joseph MELI •
Aploogies for my previous comment as I didn't read the article properly.However,there are 332,000 eligible voters are there?Also why do we need a massive 175,000 "documents"for local councils?And who will suffer the expense,or carry the can, for this incomptence ?
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Before Salvu Gauci the CEC was Edward Gatt who succeeded Carmel Degabriele. So it is a doubly epic error!!!
Joseph MELI •
500,000 voting documents?How many eligible registered voters are there in Malta?
Jason Xuereb •
And the cost of this f...up is what? Who is responsible for this and what action is being taken against him/her?
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Imma kif taht dan il-mishut Gvern qatt ma tigi wahda sewwa 500,000 dokument ipprintjati hziena minhabba firma. Affarijiet ma jitwemmnux u dawn l-ispejjes zejda issa min ha jaghmel tajjeb ghalihom? Bhas-soltu jiena u inti u dik u l-ohra u x'ma nivvutax bil-qalb lil Partit Laburista fors ix darba nqumu fuq taghna.
