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29 February 2008
Elections in Kosovo: Lessons learned and further reforms
In the
completion of its six months project of elections 2007
monitoring, on 03 March, Kosovo NGOs Coalition
“Democracy in Action – Elections 2007” organize the
conference titled “Elections in Kosovo: Lessons learned
and further reforms”. Two publications prepared by
KIPRED for “Democracy in Action – Elections 2007” will
be presented in this conference:
1.
Elections trends in Kosovo: The road ahead; and
2.
Report on media monitoring during the pre elections
campaign
Agenda of conference 03/03/2007, h 9:00
9 Decembar 2007, h 01:00
Preliminary report on the course of electoral process of the second round of Mayoral elections
The second round of mayoral elections generally went properly. There were no irregularities of high extent to be able to influence final result. Observers of ‘Democracy in Action’ have noticed several irregularities which were reported in the previous day that can be summarized as cases of ‘family voting’, cases when to a voter more than one ballot was issued, cases when polling station clerks influenced the voters to vote for a specific candidate, and similar irregularities..
8 Decembar 2007, 21:00
In the polling center located in the primary school ‘Zekeria Rexha’ (0205c), specifically in the polling station 8, family voting was noticed. At least four cases of voting for individuals that were not present have being reported. In these cases members of polling station commission have issue ballots to these multiple voters and gave them the possibility to sign near to the names of other voters.
8 Decembar 2007, 15:00
In the technical school ’28 Nwntori’ (1919e) in Prishtina, there was a tendency from one person to vote twice, but the same person has been stopped and later the voting went without difficulties. At 11:00 in the voting center at the Fakulteti Filologjik, (1906 polling station No.15) there was no official person near the voting box, though the rules oblige the officials to remain near the box.
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