CRTA: 27 pct voted by 2 pm; RIK 26.11 pct; CESID: lowest turnout in six years

Republic's Electoral Commission (RIK) said that at the same time, 26.11 percent voted, while with the number of people casting ballots in Kosovo the percentage is some 27.7.  

Center for Free Elections and Democracy, CeSID, Ivo Colovic said their data also showed the turnout of 27 percent up to 2 pm, the lowest in the last six years.

Emilija Orestijevic of the CeSID said that between noon and 2 pm, their observers reported several irregularities: ballots cast in wrong boxes, taking photos of the votes or folding them to be visible who they have been for.

She added that the electoral commission members in the northern town of Kula were taking voters’ invitation cards, putting them in bags and giving them to unidentified people.  

At 1 pm, CRTA said that 22.9 percent of the eligible voters cast their ballots.

Earlier, the central election commission (RIK) said that 18.01 percent of the electorate voted by noon on Sunday.

RIK chief Miladin Kovacevic said that the figure was based on a sample turnout at 362 polling stations and added that no great irregularities had been reported.

CRTA said that irregularities were reported by its observers at four polling stations such as the presence of unauthorized persons at polling stations and violations of the privacy of voters.