Who checks the signatures?

ElectoralCode of Moldova (Revised 2012)
http://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/?pdf=CDL-REF(2012)039-e

Article78. SpecialRequirements for Signature Collecting Sheets

(1)Signature collecting sheets in support of an independent candidate are drawn upand verified pursuant to Articles 42-43 of this Code, to be correspondinglyapplied.

(2)To be registered by the Central Election Commission, independent candidatesshall submit signature collecting sheets with signatures of at least 2,000 andat most 2,500 supporters eligible to vote.

(3)Upon verification the signature collecting sheets, the Central ElectionCommission shall nullify false signatures and signatures that were applied toseveral signature collecting sheets.         

(4)If upon scrutiny the submitted number of signatures is found insufficient or ifin the result of invalid signatures exclusion the overall number of signaturesdecreases under the minimum threshold provided for in paragraph (2) of thisArticle, the independent candidate shall not be registered and the decision tothat effect shall be conveyed to him/her within 24 hours of adoption.

(5)Upon receiving and registration of necessary documents stipulated in Article 44by the CentralElection Commission it shall not be allowed to submit supplementary signaturecollecting sheets.

Article157. Submission and Verification of Signature Collecting Sheets 

(1)No later than on the last day of the signature collection term, the initiativegroup shall draw up a protocol indicating the number of collected signatures,the date when initiative group was registered, and the date when the collectionof signatures was concluded. The protocol signed by the members of theinitiative group together with the signature collecting sheets shall besubmitted to the Central Election Commission.

(2)Within 15 days of signature collecting sheets submission, the Central ElectionCommission shall check authenticity of the signatures (all of them or atrandom) on the submitted sheets.

Signaturesby persons who have signed twice or more times shall be excluded. Signaturecollecting sheets found in breach of Article 156, par. (1) thereof shall beconsidered null and void.. Upon verification of signature collecting sheets,the CEC shall draw up a protocol and adopt a decision on initiating thereferendum.

(3)In the event that the required number of signatures was not submitted, the CECshall adopt a decision rejecting holding the referendum and cancellingregistration of the citizen initiative group.

(4)Protocol on the verification of signature collecting sheets, verified signaturecollecting sheets, and the CEC' decision on referendum initiating shallbe submitted to the Permanent Bureau of Parliament within three days.