The non-permanent character of the voters’ register and its instability is also encouraged by those provisions in the election law that open the possibility to register on election day. Therefore, voters who did not appear in the list of their residence’s polling station were eligible to be included in a supplementary list on polling day by producing their permanent residence permit duly stamped by the Regional Authorities (Article 60).[16] As pointed out in the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe’s report on the last governor’s election in Gagauzia, it was noticed that there was a large number of voters who requested and obtained to be registered on the supplementary voters’ list. This produced a very controversial situation where a high number of voters (between 10 and 25 per cent of the total electorate) were registered on election day without, in many cases, adequate checks and all that in accordance with the law.
