Regarding the allegations in the media concerning the case of M. D. S., who received a decision from the City Administration of the City of Užice that her son, who passed away in 2005, was entered in the Single Electoral Roll this year “on the basis of coming of age”, the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government informs the public that in this particular case, the issue did not arise in the maintenance of the Single Electoral Roll.
Namely, the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government had requested the statements of the City Administration of the City of Užice and the City Administration of the City of Belgrade on this matter, after which it was established that the City of Užice had acted in accordance with the prescribed procedure and made an entry into the Single Electoral Roll. During the entry into the Single Electoral Roll, the official of the City of Užice had checked the official records, but could not determine that the said person had passed away, given that the death had occurred in 2005 in Belgrade in a healthcare facility, due to which the entry into the Register of Deaths was made on the basis of the death certificate, which was then provided in paper form by the healthcare facility with incomplete and incorrect data.
All this is a consequence of the way of conducting work at the time, which did not allow for electronic connection and exchange of data between official records. We would like to stress that such situations are not possible today, because the data is networked, i.e. the records are digitized. Back in 2012, all data were consolidated and the Single Electoral Roll was established, which ensured full control, accuracy and up-to-dateness of the data. In order to further improve one of the most up-to-date records in the Republic of Serbia, we linked the registers with the Single Electoral Roll in 2019, so that when a person dies, they are immediately deleted from the Single Electoral Roll.
Thanks to digitization, electronic delivery of the death certificate has been made possible, as well as electronic updating of the Single Electoral Roll based on data from the Register of Deaths.
We would also like to inform the public that the State has reacted immediately in the aforementioned case, with the competent administrations having corrected and supplemented the information entered into the Register of Deaths at the time, and the late person in question was deleted from the Single Electoral Roll on that basis.