At polling station 218 in the Goethe German-language school in Burgas, the voting machine printed a crumpled ballot six times, and the station's election commission called a technician.
Commission chair Atanasia Petrova said the paper roll was loaded correctly and the fault was in the machine's printer rail.
Background: 21 machines failed on election day, Karnobat votes on paper only
In Karnobat, a machine failed at the start of election day, and polling station 16 voted on paper only. Later in the day it emerged that 21 machines had broken down across Bulgaria.
There were other technical problems and oddities elsewhere. In Plovdiv, a voter reached the ballot box but found he was crossed off the list as dead. A check showed a technical error. The voter said the clerk told him he must be dead. He replied that he was alive and standing in front of her, and asked if they were offering him a coffin too.
A major power cut left four polling stations in the villages of Most and Chereshitsa in Haskovo region without electricity early on election day. The Civil Protection agency brought generators, but only the voting machines had power. Haskovo region had the lowest turnout in Bulgaria in the first round.
In Gradets, the first voter was frightened by the machine and only managed to vote on her second try, with help from the commission. She said she is elderly and cannot read or write, finds the machine hard to use and gets no help.
In four polling rooms in Mezdra, CCTV that watches classrooms on school days was running from the morning. The cameras were switched off after the commissions contacted a school representative. Tsvetana Gergovska, who chairs the commission in Mezdra, said voting is secret and there should be no cameras.
Seven buses carrying Turkish citizens were parked in central Veliko Tarnovo, and police checked them. The company that organised the trip said it had nothing to do with the elections. It said the buses had stopped in the city by chance on the way back from Romania.