NIK to report irregularities regarding local elections

Poland's Supreme Audit Office (NIK) has revealed irregularities regarding operations of the National Election Bureau (Krajowe Biuro Wyborcze) during last local elections. The office will report the irregularities to the Internal Security Agency (ABW) and the prosecutor's office. The watchdog claims that the KBW failed to carry out systematic and long-term activities in the field of computerization of the election process and that the tender to choose the IT operator was conducted unfairly and breached the law. According to Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, the president of the NIK, these proceedings might have created the risk of corruption. Additionally, the watchdog wants the ABW to have a look at the possibility of a data leakage. The office also said that the state of the preparation of the IT infrastructure for the presidential election is not sufficient and it is better to conduct it without the IT support.