True. Propaganda process was unfair but it's not like one side restricted other ones propaganda....It was more like, one side had enormous resources when compared with other side.
True. We kept saying "it's impossible to cheat in Turkey's election system."
Well, i'm too bitter that "Yes" vote come out of the ballot box.
However, rejecting the change in the procedure is no different than rejecting like, "Hey, this paper's color should have been white according to regulations, however it's grey. Let's repeat the whole voting process."
I think the request is for a recount and number of votes needs to be cross referenced
vs the actual numbers of voters.
In Sweden you run three elections at the same time, and each election would
use. Its own colour, and if you used the wrong colour, for sure the vote is rejected.
A secure voting system would allow each individual to check their vote after the election
so it has not been tampered with. Not aware of anyone doing this though.
From the report.
The legal framework for the referendum neither sufficiently provides for impartial coverage nor guarantees eligible political parties equal access to public media, and gives preference to the ruling party and the president in the allocation of free airtime, while the SBE’s authority to sanction for biased coverage was repealed, the statement says.
The law limits full participation in the referendum to eligible political parties and does not regulate the involvement of other stakeholders, the statement says. Further, the SBE decided that civil society organizations and professional associations
were not permitted to hold campaign events.
“The campaign framework was restrictive and the campaign imbalanced due to the active involvement of several leading national officials, as well as many local public officials, in the ‘Yes’ campaign,” de Zulueta said. “We observed the misuse of state resources, as well as the
obstruction of ‘No’ campaign events. The campaign rhetoric was tarnished by some senior officials equating ‘No’ supporters with terrorist sympathizers, and
in numerous cases ‘No’ supporters faced police interventions and violent scuffles at their events.”