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SARAJEVO, October 30 (FENA) - The BiH Personal Data Protection Agency claims that publishing excerpts from the Central Voters' Register for voting outside BiH "was not a necessary measure in a democratic society to prevent election fraud."
This is stated in the Agency's response to a letter recently sent by Transparency International in BiH (TIBiH), in which the Agency is asked for the protection of citizens whose data have been misused to vote from abroad, TIBiH said in a press release.
At the same time, TIBiH reminds that the Agency's decision to instruct the Central Election Commission (CEC) to remove the list for voting outside BiH provoked numerous reactions, because its publication revealed numerous fictitious reports and mass misuse of data by BiH citizens.
“Nevertheless, the Agency in its response to TIBiH claims that there are other 'less intensive ways of processing personal data to prevent election fraud' without stating exactly which one, that it does not want to raise the issue of abuse, and reminds that every citizen can request written access to the Central Voters Register,” it is said in a statement.
TIBiH also reminds that the Agency states in the letter that it is not competent to determine specific solutions to the CEC, although according to the Law, in addition to the authority to ban on data processing, it can also issue regulations and guidelines on how to process data.
TIBiH, therefore, in response to the Agency stressed - that this position of the Agency does not contribute to a constructive solution to the problem, and to deviate from the provisions of the Law on Personal Data Protection of BiH, which provides the right to process personal data without consent the public interest has been fulfilled, or if the protection of legal rights is necessary, one of which is certainly the right to vote.
TIBiH called on the Agency, in cooperation with the Central Election Commission, to find a solution to this problem in order to establish mechanisms for verifying and detecting identity theft in the election process, TI BiH announced.
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