Danko Admits to Debate on Scrapping Election by Mail from Abroad

Bratislava, 3 June (TASR) - There's a need to debate the security of elections by mail from abroad, Slovak National Party (SNS) leader and House Vice-chair Andrej Danko told a press conference in Parliament on Tuesday, adding that if this voting system is not changed, it would be better to scrap it. "There's a very serious suspicion that with voting from abroad the anonymity, the time context and the privacy of those who vote are violated. If the protection isn't resolved and the system isn't changed, it would be better to scrap it because there are leaks and a lot of manipulation," Danko told reporters. "We need to talk about how to make sure that if a person votes abroad, only they will know about it, and that when it reaches Slovakia, no one will get to that information earlier," added the SNS chair. It is possible to vote by mail from abroad in advance in parliamentary elections and in referendums. In 2022, legislation was changed to make voting by mail easier. At the same time, a proposal to extend voting by mail from abroad to presidential elections wasn't passed in the previous parliamentary term. am/df