Agitation of voters and unauthorized persons who are evidencing voters as they vote, as reported by “Most”

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Agitation of voters, people trying to photograph the ballots, unauthorized persons who are evidencing voters, these are the violations that were noticed by civil organization Most’s observers at the voting polls.

-At the polling place 1778, Novo Selo municipality, a person was agitating voters in front of the polling place. The police arrived to turn him in, but the person ran away. At the “Dimitar Vlahov” school in Stip, there are unauthorized persons that are evidencing voters as they are entering the building. At the polling place 0281 in Valandovo, a voter photographed his ballot. The election board summoned the police and the voter was removed from the polling place and the photograph was erased – as was said in the Most’s announcement.

They also say that at the polling place 1580/1, for which they reported about at the previous press conference, the election board is still continuing to tolerate photographing of ballots.

Regarding the case with the photographing the ballot at the polling place 2556, the ballot was isolated and will be considered as non-valid.

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