Democratic Montenegro submitted to the Committee for the Comprehensive Reform of Electoral Laws that in the future, instead of a ballpoint pen, voting should be done with a stamp, and that the ballots should be thicker and opaque.
Deputies of the Democrats Danilo Saranović and Momo Koprivica presented at the media conference the solutions they sent to the Committee, stating that the secrecy of the vote has been grossly violated in Montenegro.
"One of the mechanisms of abuse by the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) is the ballot. They require voters to put a square or a triangle instead of circling, they give them colorful felt-tip pens, then check those ballots and control the voters. underline a certain word, fill in a certain letter," Saranović said and added that one of the mechanisms of abuse is exposing the back of the ticket, which is transparent.
He also claims that the members of the DPS voting committees leave the stamps in different places when they stamp the ballots and then during the counting they check who voted and how.
"They often cancel the ballots by subsequently circling someone else with a pencil. This is how the DPS affects the electoral will of tens of thousands of citizens," Šaranović said.
Koprivica said that the ticket proposed by the Democrats should be opaque with a dark blue background and be thicker than the current ticket.
Instead of a pen, say the Democrats, you should vote with a stamp.
"The possibility of any control over who the voter voted for is eliminated," Koprivica said, adding that it is a quick-drying ink that could not be misused.
The stamps, said Koprivica, would then be collected in the presence of all members of the electoral committee and the same number of stamps that were distributed before the start of voting would be placed in a box and sealed.
According to Koprivica, an independent supervisory body would monitor the design and production of ballots.
"Any ticket containing any mark other than a seal would be invalid," the Deocrates explained.
When it comes to sealing the ballots with the electoral board's seal - the Democrats propose that all these seals be in the same place.
"They submitted concrete normative solutions to the board. We wonder how they agreed to use a paper transparent like foil for the last 30 years. The DPS took three mandates at the local level this way, and two mandates at the national level," said Koprivica.
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