THE USL NEEDS TO QUICKLY COME UP WITH TWO MILLION DEATH CERTIFICATES Supporters of Băsescu never die

Fifty percent, plus one.

You can't add - "plus one" - to a statistical figure.

Statistical figures result from probabilistic calculations.

Probabilistic calculations lead to estimates, where errors are admissible.

The right to vote is inalienable, not estimative.

That is why, the number of citizens allowed to vote is not estimated, in the case of a ballot, but are instead counted one by one and registered with name, address and all the other information.

That is why the threshold is allowed to say "plus one", because that 50% is of the same nature - "one by one", rather than an amorphous bundle.

Would you like it if you lost your right to vote because you became part of the probabilistic margin for error?

It used to be simple: you got sentenced to jail, you went to jail; you plagiarized your PhD thesis, you lost your PhD; if the referendum didn't meet the requirements to be deemed valid, it would not be validated.

Now, it is not so easy anymore, you need to pick up the convicted person from the hospital, where he got (medical) asylum; the plagiarism is not plagiarism, because the commission which granted the PhD title did not acknowledge it; the Referendum which did not meet the validity requirements should be validated, because that's what the interim president and the USL want.

And I don't see why it shouldn't be possible, when every thing that was clear so far is now turned on all faces, dissected and redefined, to please the USL.

Hereinafter, I explain the legal procedures used for determining the number of eligible voters, without expecting that the USL "insurgents" will honor them.

I have to confess that, as I got together the information which this text is based on, I kept cursing, because I felt like I was one of those people who jump in the water, trying to get the rock thrown in by a madman.

On every ballot (elections or referendum), the permanent electoral lists are drawn up by the Ministry of Administration and Internal Affairs (MAI), based on the National Registry for the Records of the Population.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs sends the electoral lists to the Central Electoral Bureau and to the mayoralties.

The legal source is the National Registry for the Records of the Population, managed by the Department for the Records of the Population and the Management of Databases, of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On every birth, death, awarding or loss of citizenship, the data is updated or inserted in that Registry by the Department for the Records of the Population and the Management of Databases.

These records are based on legal documents (death certificate, for example), in the absence of which no one can be removed from the National Registry.

The problem of the USL is that Internal Affairs minister Ioan Rus publicly announced that there were 18,292,514 people entitled to vote and that was before the referendum of 2012.

"At this moment [ed. note. - Wednesday, July 25th 2012] , the final list of voters has been established, there are 18,292,514 Romanian citizens who have the right to vote", internal affairs minister Ioan Rus said. (AGERPRES)

The website of the Central Electoral Bureau announces the same number (http://www.becreferendum2012.ro/statistici.html).

Interim president Crin Antonescu has been informed on these provisions and legal procedures, but he advises the Constitutional Court to use "the real list", not the "bureaucratic one".

The USL brings up another database, that of the National Statistics Institute (INS), resulting from the Census.

But the National Statistics Institute applies a different method, which does not use legal documents, but instead draws its results from what the citizens state during the census.

The INS does not count the citizens, only the stable population (citizens gone abroad are no longer considered part of the stable population).

In order to have the right to change the size of the electoral lists, the USL must provide documents which have legal merit, which prove that each of the citizens it wants to remove from the list is deceased or voluntarily abandoned their citizenship.

According to the calculations made by Daniel Ionescu (in the article called "Speaking of the Referendum"), the USL would need to produce almost two million death certificates.

Fast.

Only after it did that and they were recorded in the National Registry for the Records of the Population of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, could interim president Crin Antonescu claim that there is "a real list", different from the "bureaucratic list".

Only if that happened would the Constitutional Court be faced with the moral issue which the USL is trying to force upon it.

It needs to be said however, that the fact that the number of eligible voters hasn't changed between the referendum of 2007 (18,301,309) and the Referendum of 2012 (18,292,514), as the population of Romania has been constantly dropping since 1990.

So in five years, the number of deaths only exceeded the number of people who became 18 years old by 9,000?

Get serious!

It's like the PDL saying that the supporters of Băsescu never die.

The article of Daniel Ionescu speaks volumes on that matter.