On Sunday, from 7 am, 2,550 polling stations are opened throughout Kosovo, for resident voters. Ballots and other sensitive election material were sent to each municipality on Saturday morning. The transfer was made under strict security measures and the police will be all night at the locations in 38 municipalities, where the election material has been placed.
Filled with sensitive election material, including ballots, on Saturday morning the trucks that were loaded at the Counting and Results Center, headed to the locations that will serve as counting centers in 38 municipalities.
The first destination was the sports hall of the “Daut Bogujevci” elementary school, in Fushë-Kosovo.
The spokesperson of the CEC, Valmir Elezi, indicated that the material has been distributed throughout Kosovo.
“During the early hours of this morning, the Central Election Commission distributed election materials, including ballots and other sensitive election materials, such as the final lists of voters and stamps,” said Elezi.
By decision of the CEC, 1 million 778 thousand 300 ballots were printed for Sunday’s elections, of which 1 million 605 thousand are intended for regular voting, 19 thousand 450 for conditional voting, 13 thousand 500 reserve ballots, as well as 3 thousand 500 for the voting of persons with special needs.
Ballots and other materials that have been placed in the municipal counting centers in each municipality will be distributed to each voting center and polling place on Sunday before 7 am, when voting for the early parliamentary elections begins.
There are 949 voting centers, with a total of 2,550 polling stations throughout Kosovo.
Elezi said that the election materials will be kept by members of the Police, until they are distributed to the Voting Centers on Sunday.
“During the morning of Sunday, they will be distributed to the voting centers, which will be opened at 07:00, to start the voting process. The delivery of materials from the Counting and Results Center to the Municipal Centers has been done as usual under the supervision of the Kosovo Police, and of course their preservation will be done by police officials”, he declared.
According to the CEC, even in these elections the number of printed ballots is lower than the total number of eligible voters and this practice is based on the analysis of citizens’ participation in past election processes.
The day before, non-sensitive election materials, including voting boxes and booths, as well as accompanying materials, were distributed in all 38 municipalities. Information technology equipment, including polling station cameras, computers, monitors and support equipment, has also been transported.
In the early parliamentary elections on June 7, 2,092,174 citizens have the right to vote. They will be able to vote for one of the 21 political subjects in the competition, which have a total of 902 candidates for deputies.
