Potential candidates in the presidential elections could forge the signatures supporting their candidacy. This is theoretically possible as the State Election Commission (DIK) is only checking if those signing the support list are on the electoral roll.
NGO Centre for Democratic Transition’s (CDT) director Dragan Koprivica said that DIK should enable citizens to check whether a political party abused their data from the electoral roll and used it to compose the support list for its presidential candidate.
DIK is still not checking the signatures for authenticity during the submission of candidacies. It takes at least 7,933 signatures of support for a candidate’s nomination to be accepted.
In practice, this means that any party with access to the electoral roll may copy voters’ personal data from it and forge their signatures. After the list of voters supporting candidates are submitted, DIK checks if there are voters who supported two or more candidates.
