ISFED Board Chairperson explains as to why there was a deficiency in the formula for calculating votes received by Election subjects

Tamara Sartania, chairwoman of the board of ISFED, explains why there was a deficiency in the formula for calculating the votes received by election subjects. As Sartania stated at the briefing, "there was no attempt of pressure, blackmail or intimidation against the director of ISFED."

According to her, the monitoring revealed that the formula, which counted the number of votes received by election subjects, also counted invalid ballots, and "after correcting this mistake, the results of ISFED PVT came closer to the results of the CEC." As for why the invalid ballot papers were counted, Sartania said that PVT was based on the Serbian PVT Software, which does include invalid ballots in tabulation.

"Each subsequent PVT is not based on the PVT used in the same country, but where the PVT was used most recently. The commission's investigation has established that this PVT software was based on a country where invalid ballots are counted while tabulating the percentages of election subjects. This is Serbia, where the elections were held in June 2020", - Sartaia said.