Second Press Release
13:00
DiA: Voter turnout by midday stands at 13.7%; in 50% of polling stations voters reported difficulties finding their names on the Voters List
Since the opening of polling stations at 07:00, according to observers of Democracy in Action (DiA), the voting process across the country has been proceeding calmly. By 12:00, approximately 13.7% of citizens had exercised their right to vote (margin of error ±0.35%). Prishtina and Ferizaj have recorded the highest turnout so far, at 15%.
In municipalities with a Serb majority in the northern part of the country, turnout has been reported at over 22%, which is nearly double the national average.
In these elections, 1,999,204 citizens are eligible to vote, which is 28,260 more than in the parliamentary elections of 9 February 2025.
We recall that voter turnout during the same time period in the parliamentary elections of 9 February stood at 14.5%.
Voting at Incorrect Polling Stations
For these elections as well, the Central Election Commission (CEC) has attempted to inform each voter about changes to their Voting Centre and has also provided the possibility for voters to verify their designated polling station through an electronic platform (a dedicated link). Nevertheless, a considerable number of complaints in this regard continue to be reported from the field.
DiA observers have reported that by 12:00, difficulties in finding names on the Voters List—and consequently in identifying the appropriate polling station—were reported in 50% of polling stations; however, the number of such cases has generally been small, up to 10 cases per polling station.
At the same time, there have been polling stations (1.6%) where a considerable number of voters (up to 30 voters) were unable to find their names on the Voters List. The municipalities most affected are Prishtina and Peja.
There have also been cases where voters complained that someone else had signed on their behalf on the Voters List, reported in 1.4% of polling stations.
DiA recommends that citizens verify their Voting Centre before heading to vote by using the link qv.kqz-ks.org, in order to avoid dissatisfaction and delays.
On the other hand, conditional voting is being enabled at only one polling station in each of the 38 municipalities.
Assisted Voting
According to the new CEC rules, if a voter does not possess a document proving their inability to vote independently (medical certificate or similar), they will not be allowed to vote with assistance.
The tightening of rules on assisted voting comes as a result of the fact that this phenomenon has been highly prevalent in all previous electoral processes and has been misused to impose or distort the free will of voters. In the elections of 9 February, according to DiA, 6% of all voters cast their ballots with assistance. Two-thirds of them were women, while in 35% of polling stations isolated cases were recorded where even young voters requested assisted voting.
By midday, in 61% of polling stations, commissioners are enforcing the rule and requesting documentation to allow assisted voting. Furthermore, in 35% of polling stations, although voters requested assisted voting, they were not allowed to do so due to the absence of medical documentation.
By 12:00, of the total number of voters who had voted so far, only 1% voted with assistance. Additionally, in 5% of polling stations, isolated cases (up to four cases) were observed where young voters requested assisted voting.
As a general trend, assisted voting is being recorded in the Polling Station Logbook; however, there have also been cases where assisted voting was not conducted in accordance with the rules. This occurred in 5% of polling stations, where up to 10 cases were not recorded at all in the Voting Logbook.
We recall that one assistant is entitled to assist only one voter, while commissioners or accredited observers are strictly prohibited from providing any form of voting assistance.
There have been isolated cases where more than one voter was present behind the voting booth, observed as a phenomenon in 11% of polling stations.
Voting with Invalid Documents
DiA has found that in 16% of polling stations there were up to four cases of identification using expired documents, despite the rules prohibiting voting with expired identification. This phenomenon is more pronounced in the Prizren region.
By 12:00, in 4% of polling stations there were isolated cases where voters were identified with invalid documents, such as documents issued by other states or UNMIK-issued documents.
Photographing the Ballot
Although occurring on a limited scale, violations of ballot secrecy through photographing the vote continue to appear in these elections. Photographing the ballot and making it public is presumed to be linked to violations of vote secrecy or vote buying, as well as voter intimidation and distortion of the voter’s free will.
By 12:00, 13 cases of ballot photographing had been recorded.
Serious Incidents
By midday, no serious incidents have been recorded.
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Democracy in Action (DiA) is a domestic coalition of Kosovo non-governmental organizations for election observation. The coalition has observed all electoral processes since 2007. For the observation of the snap parliamentary elections of 28 December, DiA will rely on the Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) methodology. This statistically based method enables an assessment of the voting process on election day, including the counting process. PVT is applied to a randomly selected, representative sample of polling stations, meaning that the results obtained through this method are applicable at the national level. On election day, DiA has accredited 500 stationary observers, supported by 50 mobile teams and dozens of volunteers operating in the Call Center.
Drugo saopštenje za medije
13:00
DnD: Izlaznost gra?ana do podneva iznosi 13,7%; u 50% bira?kih mesta zabeleženi slu?ajevi da bira?i nisu pronašli svoje ime na Bira?kom spisku
Od otvaranja bira?kih mesta u 07:00 ?asova, prema posmatra?ima koalicije Demokratija na Delu (DnD), proces glasanja širom zemlje proti?e mirno. Do 12:00 ?asova, pravo glasa iskoristilo je oko 13,7% gra?ana (margina greške ±0,35%). Najve?u izlaznost do sada zabeležile su Priština i Uroševac, sa po 15%.
U opštinama sa ve?inskim srpskim stanovništvom na severu zemlje, izlaznost je prijavljena na preko 22%, što je gotovo dvostruko više od prose?ne izlaznosti na nivou cele zemlje.
Na ovim izborima pravo glasa ima 1.999.204 gra?ana, odnosno 28.260 više nego na parlamentarnim izborima održanim 9. februara 2025. godine.
Podse?amo da je izlaznost bira?a u istom vremenskom periodu na parlamentarnim izborima 9. februara iznosila 14,5%.
CIK je i za ove izbore pokušao da informiše svakog bira?a o promenama bira?kog centra, kao i da omogu?i proveru dodeljenog bira?kog mesta putem elektronske platforme (posebnog linka). Me?utim, sa terena se i dalje prijavljuje zna?ajan broj pritužbi u vezi sa ovim pitanjem.
Posmatra?i DnD-a izvestili su da su do 12:00 ?asova poteško?e u pronalaženju imena na Bira?kom spisku, a samim tim i u identifikaciji odgovaraju?eg bira?kog mesta, zabeležene u 50% bira?kih mesta, pri ?emu je broj slu?ajeva uglavnom bio mali, do 10 po bira?kom mestu.
Istovremeno, zabeležena su i bira?ka mesta (1,6%) na kojima ve?i broj bira?a (do 30 bira?a) nije pronašao svoje ime na Bira?kom spisku. Najviše ovakvih slu?ajeva zabeleženo je u opštinama Priština i Pe?.
Tako?e, bilo je slu?ajeva kada su se bira?i žalili da je neko drugi potpisan u njihovo ime na Bira?kom spisku, što je zabeleženo u 1,4% bira?kih mesta.
DnD preporu?uje gra?anima da pre odlaska na glasanje provere svoj bira?ki centar putem linka qv.kqz-ks.org, kako bi izbegli nezadovoljstvo i kašnjenja.
S druge strane, uslovno glasanje omogu?eno je samo u jednom bira?kom centru u svakoj od 38 opština.
Prema novim pravilima CIK-a, ukoliko bira? ne poseduje dokument koji dokazuje njegovu nemogu?nost da glasa samostalno (lekarsko uverenje ili sli?no), ne?e mu biti dozvoljeno glasanje uz asistenciju.
Poja?avanje pravila za glasanje uz asistenciju rezultat je ?injenice da je ovaj fenomen bio izrazito prisutan u svim prethodnim izbornim procesima i da je bio zloupotrebljavan radi nametanja ili iskrivljavanja slobodne volje bira?a. Na izborima 9. februara, prema DnD-u, 6% svih bira?a glasalo je uz asistenciju. Dve tre?ine njih bile su žene, dok su u 35% bira?kih mesta zabeleženi izolovani slu?ajevi u kojima su i mla?i bira?i tražili glasanje uz asistenciju.
Do podneva, u 61% bira?kih mesta ?lanovi bira?kih odbora primenjuju pravilo i zahtevaju dokumentaciju kako bi dozvolili glasanje uz asistenciju. Dodatno, u 35% bira?kih mesta bira?ima koji su tražili glasanje uz asistenciju ono nije bilo dozvoljeno zbog nedostatka medicinske dokumentacije.
Do 12:00 ?asova, od ukupnog broja bira?a koji su do tada glasali, samo 1% je glasao uz asistenciju. Tako?e, u 5% bira?kih mesta zabeleženi su izolovani slu?ajevi (do ?etiri slu?aja) u kojima su mla?i bira?i tražili glasanje uz asistenciju.
Kao opšti trend, glasanje uz asistenciju se evidentira u Knjizi glasanja, ali su zabeleženi i slu?ajevi u kojima glasanje uz asistenciju nije sprovedeno u skladu sa pravilima. To se dogodilo u 5% bira?kih mesta, gde do 10 slu?ajeva uopšte nije evidentirano u Knjizi glasanja.
Podse?amo da jedan asistent ima pravo da pomaže samo jednom bira?u, dok je ?lanovima bira?kih odbora i akreditovanim posmatra?ima strogo zabranjeno pružanje bilo kakve pomo?i pri glasanju.
Zabeleženi su i izolovani slu?ajevi u kojima se više od jednog bira?a nalazilo iza glasa?ke kabine, što je uo?eno kao pojava u 11% bira?kih mesta.
DnD je utvrdio da su u 16% bira?kih mesta zabeleženi do ?etiri slu?aja identifikacije bira?a sa isteklim dokumentima, uprkos pravilima koja zabranjuju glasanje sa dokumentima kojima je istekao rok važenja. Ova pojava je izraženija u regionu Prizrena.
Do 12:00 ?asova, u 4% bira?kih mesta zabeleženi su izolovani slu?ajevi u kojima su bira?i identifikovani nevaže?im dokumentima, poput dokumenata izdatih od strane drugih država ili dokumenata izdatih od UNMIK-a.
Iako u manjem obimu, povreda tajnosti glasanja kroz fotografisanje glasa?kog listi?a i dalje se pojavljuje i na ovim izborima. Fotografisanje glasa?kog listi?a i njegovo javno objavljivanje pretpostavlja se da je povezano sa povredom tajnosti glasanja ili kupovinom glasa, kao i sa zastrašivanjem bira?a i iskrivljavanjem njegove slobodne volje.
Do 12:00 ?asova zabeleženo je 13 slu?ajeva fotografisanja glasa?kog listi?a.
Do podneva nije evidentiran nijedan ozbiljan incident.
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Demokratija na Delu (DnD) je doma?a koalicija kosovskih nevladinih organizacija za posmatranje izbora. Koalicija posmatra sve izborne procese od 2007. godine. Za posmatranje vanrednih parlamentarnih izbora 28. decembra, DnD se oslanja na metodologiju Paralelnog brojanja glasova (PVT). Ova statisti?ki zasnovana metodologija omogu?ava procenu procesa glasanja na dan izbora, uklju?uju?i i proces brojanja glasova. PVT se primenjuje na nasumi?no odabranom, reprezentativnom uzorku bira?kih mesta, što zna?i da su rezultati dobijeni ovom metodom primenljivi na nacionalnom nivou. Na dan izbora, DnD je akreditovao 500 stacionarnih posmatra?a, uz podršku 50 mobilnih timova i desetina volontera u Pozivnom centru.