NO SIGN OF FORCE IN BULGARIAN ELECTIONS, SAYS “TELEGRAPH”
BUT LAW IS COMPLICATED Recd. 6.30 p.m. London, Oct. 28. There is no sign whatever of force or compulsion in the voting in the Bulgarian elections, says the "Daily Telegraph’s” Sofia correspondent. Opposition members ot the local control councils in Sofia and the neighbouring villages with whom he spoke declared themselves satisfied with the free nature of the polling. The Opposition leader. Mr. Petkov however, alleged that the elections were not free, and declared that' there were sufficient irregularities to reduce the Opposition vote from an estimated 60 per cent, to the present approximate 25 per cent. Petkov attacked the issue of special voting cards, and showed a number of voters’ cards signed in blank by authorities which enabled multiple voting, despite a complicated system of safeguards. The correspondent agrees the electoral law is somewhat complicated, but expresses the opinion that the safeguards are adequate against multiple voting and other abuses.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 October 1946, Page 5
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