Election incidents and recalculation of votes. What does PKW say?

During the press conference, president of the State Election Commission, Sylwester Marciniak, informed that the election silence ended at 21. He besides noted that no situation was reported requiring an extension or queue signals in front of the polling stations.

Recalculation of votes

When asked about the anticipation of recalculation of votes with a tiny difference between candidates, Marciniak explained that there is no legal provision requiring specified action, for example, with a difference of 1%. He added that a recalculation could only take place if electoral protests were tabled and the court decided.

So far, I don't see the danger of having to recalculate votes in elections. – he said.

He stressed that since the authoritative election results were announced, there was a deadline for submitting electoral protests. Both voters and committees have the right to do so, and the time to registry is 14 days. The PKW justice pointed out that all protest had to mention to a peculiar voting circuit and a circumstantial allegation.

The winner of the election was Karol Nawrocki, a candidate for Law and Justice who won 50.89% of the vote, defeating Rafał Trzaskowski of the Civic Coalition, who gained 49.1%.

Unusual situations in polling stations

A PKW justice reported that 17 offences as defined in the Criminal Code were recorded, of which 12 afraid a disruption of elections, in accordance with Article 248 Kk.

As the PKW justice said, 2 investigations have been initiated on the illegal transfer of individual data related to the photographing of voting rights certificates. He pointed out that only the number of specified a paper could be written, while in these cases photographs of full certificates containing, inter alia, the name, were taken utilizing a private phone. Marciniak besides mentioned another incidents – 1 of them was a associate of the commission in Pomerania who came to work under the influence of alcohol. He besides described the situation from Lublin, where the voter took the ballot card out of the premises, mistakenly marked the candidate, then outside the premises changed his choice, and then returned and threw the card into the urn. However, the justice stressed that if there are 2 X-signs on the card, the voice is invalid anyway.