Urgent communication of the PKW on elections. It's a popular app

news.5v.pl 2 months ago

Chairman of the State Election Commission on Wednesday, ‘in view of the many false information distributed in public space’, a peculiar communication was issued.

This is simply a reaction to the article of the portal dangerousik.pl, which describes the possible "falsification of presidential elections by mass casting votes" utilizing false app mCitizen. The text highlights the procedures verification of voters' identity.

Presidential election 2025. PKW responds to reports of mcitizen applications


‘Prepared and made available by Ministry of Digital Affairs the functionality of the mcitizen application allows to confirm the authenticity, validity, integrity or origin of the paper shown and verify the correctness of its operation’, he submitted Sylvester Marciniak.

He added that the app had undergone an update that increased the level of safety in this area.

‘Verification of the voter's identity by this method not only eliminates the possible hazard of designation of falsified mProvidence for real and does not require the usage of additional devices and access to the net and is in accordance with the applicable law," says the statement.

At the same time, PKW stressed that the committee could usage another methods of identity verification in case of a deficiency of specified a anticipation and that it could refuse to issue a ballot.

Presidential election 2025. Voting rights. PKW Communication


The Commission besides stated that ‘it is not actual that 1 voter can get more than 1 certificates of voting rights’.

‘The voter who has been issued with a certificate of voting rights shall be deleted from the list of voters in which he was included. It is so not possible for him to receive another certificate of voting rights" - stressed justice Marciniak.

It is added that the electoral committee is required to pay peculiar attention to ‘whether the certificate includes a hologram imprinted with 'PRP 2025', which is secured’.

PKW stresses that the registry of issued certificates of voting rights is kept in Central Election Register, and each municipality is required to account for all the holograms received to safe the certificate.

Finally, the committee recalls that You can vote for 1 candidate, putting the ‘X’ sign on the ballot box on the left side next to his name. Setting the ‘X’ sign with the name of more than 1 candidate results in An invalid vote.

Presidential election 2025. What paper do you want to take to the polling place?


To vote in elections is essential presentation of the photograph recognition paper to the committee. This may be: ID, passport or driver's license.

You can besides show at the polling station mProvidence available in mCitizen application. It is treated as a full identity card. To verify identity it is essential to have the current version of the application.


"Politic WF": Mentorka with tv behind the scenes of the debateINTERIA.PL


Do you have suggestions, remarks or see a mistake? Write to us

Join us
Read Entire Article