The numbers of the State Election Commission and the Ministry of Interior of the Macedonian citizens eligible to vote differ. The first institution says that as of 30 September, voters in Macedonia with biometric IDs (which is a condition for voting) totaled 1,739,907, and according to the Interior Ministry there are 24,000 more voters. The two institutions presented their reports at the Wednesday meeting of the working group making revision of the voters’ list. Furthermore, the Recordkeeping Office, said that its numbers differ from those of the Interior Ministry by a few thousand voters on various bases, Dnevnik reports.

However, all these different numbers of citizens eligible to vote either at home or abroad, did not prevent the representatives of the State Election Commission, the Interior Ministry, the State Statistical Office, the Recordkeeping Office, the political parties, the non-governmental MOST and the foreign mediators from the OSCE and the ODIHR to adopt conclusions that the voters’ list is fine. They put down the differences to the different methodologies (a citizen of age is not defined the same by the State Election Commission and the Interior Ministry).