Photo: FoNet/Ana PaunkovićIt was recorded that voters arrived in an organized manner from various parts of Serbia (e.g. from Pancevo, Valjevo, Čačak, Arandjelovac, Smederevo, Vršac, Novi Sad, etc.), as well as from Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, this Observation Mission states.
Based on the facts collected so far and the analyzes carried out, the Monitoring Mission of the Line announced that it has reasonable suspicion that in the elections on December 17 there was organized migration of voters on a scale that decisively influenced the outcome of the very close elections for the Assembly of Belgrade.
"Organized voter migration is a type of electoral engineering that is neither legal nor legitimate." Registering fictitious residences for the purpose of voting in local elections outside their own city or municipality violates the laws that regulate citizens' residence issues, but also endangers the principles of electoral equality and the guaranteed right of citizens to elect local self-government," they state in CRT.
More points
As they state, even before the election, Crta received information from various sources that pointed to the illegal actions of local self-government bodies and the highest republican executive bodies with the aim of shaping the election results in Belgrade in favor of the ruling party.
"Crucial evidence was collected during the election day by Crta observers who took a large number of photos and videos of the organized bringing of voters from other cities in Serbia and abroad to Belgrade. Several checkpoints were recorded that served as logistical centers of the operation, from where voters were referred and taken to polling stations in various parts of the capital. At 71 polling stations, i.e. at 14 percent of the polling stations in Belgrade, the observers of the Line observed examples of organized bringing of voters, supervised voting, possible manipulation of voter's identity - in Čukarica (10), Novi Belgrade (9), Vračar (7), Voždovac (7) ) and in Zemun (7)."
It is stated that it was recorded that voters arrived in an organized manner from various parts of Serbia (e.g. from Pancevo, Valjevo, Čačak, Arandjelovac, Smederevo, Vršac, Novi Sad, etc.), as well as from Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, which reinforces they suspect that local elections were strategically called only in a third of the local self-government units in order to enable the temporary relocation of voters.
"Additional analyzes were made after election day by using and cross-checking quantitative data from publicly available data from the electronic version of the voter list on the website of the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government (names and surnames of voters by polling station) and voting results. The significant extent of the changes in the voter list that occurred in the period of one year were established. Polling stations in Belgrade have been identified, which can be concluded with high probability that they were the destinations of organized voter migration, and where the ruling party achieved a significant increase in the number of votes compared to the previous elections."
Confessions of politicians
Crta states that some political actors themselves indirectly confirmed the findings of that analysis - "several politicians and high-ranking officials of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina explicitly confirmed the implementation of the aforementioned practices, trying to justify and present them as legal and legitimate."
Crta brought a series of recommendations to prevent unacceptable phenomena that marked these elections in Belgrade.
"In the short term, it is necessary for the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government to make the voter list completely public, with reasonable and feasible measures to protect voters' personal data." Also, the prosecutor's offices must investigate all well-founded suspicions of criminal acts committed in connection with the elections."
In this organization, they point out that in the medium term, the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government should, in accordance with the recommendations of the OSCE/ODIHR Mission, conduct an independent audit of the Unified Voters' List of Citizens. The National Assembly should adopt amendments to the Law on Elections that would prevent organized migration of voters.
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