What is the "Bulgarian train" that the DP claims for vote manipulation?

A not-unheard-of term has been thrown around today, amid allegations of vote theft by the Democratic Party, the "Bulgarian train".

It was a Democratic Party teller who raised suspicions about why a batch of ballot papers in Tirana had been folded in the same way. There were somewhere between 10-15 of them, and according to her, folding the papers into three parts in the same way was evidence of vote theft.

"Look, this is the Bulgarian train," she said in a video that was later reposted by Sali Berisha who also claimed that the "Bulgarian train" scheme had been applied in Albania.

The DP would reuse this term a few moments later, because at the counting center at "Sami Frashëri" several sheets were found that were slightly paler in color than the yellow of the other sheets.

In fact, this came to light after a complaint by Agron Shehaj, who said that the pale-colored ballots were votes for his party that were unfairly declared invalid. After the contest, they were counted for Agron Shehaj's party. There were about 7 of them.

Belind Këlliçi said that these were evidence of the “Bulgarian train.” When the journalist asked him how many votes of different colors there were, Këlliçi said that he did not know, and then asked the DP counter. “There are 3,” he replied. “Yes, there are 3, but there were more,” Këlliçi added.

The Bulgarian train is a scheme first used in Bulgaria in 2009, where citizens who sold their votes would receive a completed ballot at the entrance to polling stations and, after entering, would vote with the completed ballot and leave the center with a blank ballot. This scheme was found to have been carried out with about 300,000 votes, mainly from Bulgaria's poor Roma community.

It is worth noting that during the voting process throughout the country, there were no complaints, either from foreign observers or opposition members, of people with money in hand "selling" ready-made ballots outside the centers. The "Bulgarian train", so far, has only been claimed by the opposition for Tirana.