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The National Election Office (NVI) has published on its website the number of registered voters by individual constituency and by locality, state news agency MTI reported.
This article was originally published on our sister-site, Ungarn Heute.
Earlier, independent MPs Bernadett Szél and Szabolcs Szabó had called on the Election Office (NVI) to publish the registry data on a regular basis in order to determine whether people register with fictitious addresses in order to influence the election results.
As we have previously reported, Parliament recently passed an amendment, which according to critics, essentially allows “vote tourism.” However, the government said the change was simply intended to exempt the nearly two million people who do not live in their registered residences from possible punishment.
To dispel doubts and to prevent accusations, the National Election Office promised that the number of registered voters by electoral district and location would be published on a weekly basis.
The information published for the first time is available in a downloadable Excel spreadsheet under the Register’s page. Data for weeks 49 and 50 are already available on the NVI website.
Featured photo illustration by Zoltán Balogh/MTI