Over 31,000 election commission members deployed to polling stations in Kyrgyzstan

AKIPRESS.COM - 650 members of local election commissions and 31,119 members of polling station election commissions work at the polling stations, the Central Election Commission said.
5,700 automated ballot boxes and 6,700 biometric voter identification equipment sets are deployed.
All information systems function as normally, the Commission said.
The Central Election Commission held trainings earlier on functioning of information system and cybersecurity for all system administrators. 59 system administrators of local election commissions, around 5,000 ballot box operators, over 6,900 voter identification operators were trained in total.
The Commission tested automated ballot box and transmission of signals on January 6.
The speed of transmission of data was increased to 95% during testing.
11 polling stations lie in remote parts of the country having no access to Internet. These are border outposts in Enilchek village, Aksuu district and Zardaly village of Batke region. Such remote areas also exist in Suzak district of Jalal-Abad region, Kara-Kulja and Nookat districts of Osh region.
The voting results from those areas will be passed after transportation of the automated ballot boxes to the closest polling stations. The voting results will be then transmitted to the server of the Central Election Commission.