Electoral commission calls for inquiry into vote-counting IT system

The Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK) has been asked by the State Electoral Commission (PKW) for an urgent inquiry into the procedures concerning the choice of the computer company to count the votes in last week's local elections. The system responsible for counting the votes failed, which caused serious delays in the delivery of election results. PKW head Ferdynand Rymarz wants to turn to experts for help in assessing the technical reasons for the system's failure. NIK's spokeswoman, Malgorzata Pomianowska, said that no separate inquiry into PKW would be introduced unless demanded by the Sejm, but announced that a routine NIK inspection would be conducted in December. Then, NIK inspectors will look into the procedures behind the choice of Prokom Software and Pixel as the main operators for collating the election results. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) K.Z.