RIK corrects minutes from national council elections
The Republic Electoral Commission adopted rulings on November 11 correcting polling board minutes. Its statement does not mention a revote or final results.
The Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) held its 80th session on Wednesday, November 11, and adopted rulings correcting the minutes kept by polling boards at the November 8 elections for members of national minority councils. The session was chaired by RIK deputy chair Marko Jankovic.
What did RIK leave out?
The commission’s statement does not give the number of rulings adopted. It also contains no decision to repeat voting at any polling station and no final results. Nor does it say which errors the rulings address.
What came before the session?
At its 79th session on November 9, RIK confirmed preliminary results for the 21 councils elected by direct vote. Jankovic said then, according to Tanjug and Novosti, that 161 errors had been spotted during the elections, 72 of them serious and 89 minor. KoSSev reported that day that it had not yet been decided how the errors would be fixed, or whether voting would be repeated at some polling stations. Processing of the election material was not finished everywhere: for the National Council of the Albanian National Minority, for example, 140 of 153 polling stations had been processed.
One figure differs between sources. Novosti, citing RIK data, reports that 481,785 voters were eligible to vote at 949 polling stations, while KoSSev gives 481,789 for the November 9 session.
RIK member Sofija Mandic estimated on November 9 that between 30 and 40 percent of registered voters turned out.
What happens next?
RIK must publish the results of the direct elections within 96 hours of the end of voting, so that deadline expires on Thursday, November 12. Within three days of confirming the final results, the commission issues a ruling allocating seats to candidates from the lists, in the order they appear on each list. Council seats have not yet been allocated.
The polling board minutes concern direct voting. The Russian and Goran minority councils were chosen on November 8 by electors’ assemblies: 30 electors voted for the list of Milovan Curcic, electing all 19 members of the Russian council, and 21 electors voted for the list of Amir Kajkus, electing all 15 members of the Goran council.
It is not known whether RIK will publish what exactly was corrected before the final results. We reported on the preliminary results and the errors when they were released.
