Khorasan Razavi Construction Engineering System Elections – Legitimacy Crisis!
This article has a look at the way of holding the ninth term of the Board of Directors of Khorasan Razavi Construction Engineering System Organization and does not extend to the honorable elected officials and its preliminary results in any way.
1. According to paragraph 6-6 of the election regulations, the time of holding the election is from 8:00-16:00 and if necessary before the end of the voting, the monitoring body could extend the election up to 24:00.
2 ⃣ After many disruptions in the election system and it was practically out of reach, while 7 hours had passed since the start of the election and according to the executive committee, only 500 people had managed to vote.
The presence of representatives of the coalitions and some candidates in the secretariat of the executive board and the registration of objections to the election process and the request for its cancellation at 13:50, and then following the meeting of the executive board at 15:57, a notice was issued by them at 15:57 that the proposal to cancel The election and its postponement have been given to the supervisory board.
3. While receiving the message of the executive board (Notice No. 21) and the end of the legal time for holding the election, the candidates and members considered the election to be over (cancelled), about 90 minutes after the end of the legal time of the election at 4:00 p.m., the supervisory board issued its first notice in The format sends SMS messages to the members that the election has been extended until 20:00!
However, the extension was supposed to be announced before 16:00.
Besides, after this only election notices were issued by the monitoring board and there was no more news from the executive board until 22:51 when the executive board announced that the election has been extended until midnight.
Therefore, from 15:57 (the announcement of the proposal to cancel the election and postpone it to another time) until 22:51 – about 7 hours – there was no news from the executive board!
4. According to Articles 52 and 57 of the Executive Regulations and Clauses 6-7 to 6-11 of the Election Regulations, participation in the general assembly and elections requires a valid membership. It is also provided if they are not valid.
5. The problem of the election system was the failure to send the final confirmation of the vote from 8:00 p.m., which was planned for the security of the election and the protection of the votes and rights of the members, but after 5:28 p.m., this part was removed from the system and made participation in the election very simple, but in exposed to serious damage.
It is interesting to note that according to reports, 4,500 people had voted at 18:45, almost an hour after the resumption of elections! It means 1/3 of the total votes.
6. The limit of one vote per IP was removed and news of 100s of votes being registered by a laptop or computer was also heard.
which is in conflict with the legal principle of the authenticity of the participant’s vote.
7⃣For some members, the SMS link was not sent, despite the organization’s SMS being sent to them.
With regard to what was said, the organization’s elections are facing a crisis of legitimacy and require serious planning by those in charge;
if they want
It is emphasized once again that this article is not a criticism of the honorable elected officials.
This post is written by Mkd1396