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| The Grand Turk |
| Changes in voting procedure against law: International observers |
| 2017-04-18 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s Supreme Election Board’s (YSK) decision to deem unsealed ballots valid in the referendum had lifted significant assurances and that it was against the law, according to international observers. Head of the delegations from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held a presser in Ankara on April 17 to brife their observesations about the referendum process. "Late changes in counting procedures removed an important safeguard," said Cezar Florin Preda, the head of the PACE delegation, referring to a move by the election authorities to allow voting documents without an official stamp. "The legal framework... remained inadequate for the holding of a genuinely democratic referendum," the delegations said in a a joint statement. OSCE/ODIHR Delegation Chair Tana de Zulueta said changes in the vote-counting procedure had lifted significant assurances and that it was against the law. Some of the OSCE observers were not allowed to invigilate the vote-counting process, the observer said. |
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