{"id":20578,"date":"2025-11-23T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/?p=20578"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:33:03","slug":"pod-lupom-turnout-at-10-4-significantly-lower-than-in-2022-irregularities-from-previous-election-cycles-repeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/press\/news\/pod-lupom-turnout-at-10-4-significantly-lower-than-in-2022-irregularities-from-previous-election-cycles-repeated\/","title":{"rendered":"POD LUPOM: Turnout at 10.4%, Significantly Lower Than in 2022; Irregularities From Previous Election Cycles Repeated"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Coalition \u201cPod lupom\u201d has published key findings from its election day observation up to 12:00, based on reports submitted by its observers deployed to approximately every fifth polling station across the Republika Srpska.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By 12:00, the Coalition \u201cPod lupom\u201d recorded 19 serious electoral irregularities, including: 6 cases of missing electoral materials, 5 cases of violation of the election silence, 2 cases of denying election observation, 2 cases of unlawful publication of public opinion poll results, 2 polling stations without a list of polling board members, and 1 case each of pressure on voters and photographing inside the polling station.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A recurring electoral irregularity that consistently appears from one election cycle to another is family voting, recorded at 23.7% of polling stations. A procedural violation was also noted in which voters were sent away because their names were not listed in the Extract from the Central Voters\u2019 Register (CVR). Between 1 and 10 such cases were recorded at 20% of polling stations, while more than 10 cases were reported at 0.9% of polling stations.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Voters who received assistance from another person during voting did not provide proof that such assistance was genuinely needed at 22% of polling stations. Observers also reported that a single person provided assistance to multiple voters inside the booth at 9.7% of polling stations.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Voting without verification of identification documents was allowed at 4 polling stations.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At one polling station, the secrecy of the vote was compromised.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Observers filed 2 remarks at polling stations, while the Coalition \u201cPod lupom\u201d has so far submitted 7 initiatives to the Central Election Commission (CEC) for action ex officio in relation to electoral irregularities, as well as one complaint to the Municipal Election Commission (MEC) in Banja Luka.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Voter Turnout by 11:00<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Coalition \u201cPod lupom\u201d also monitors voter turnout. The recorded turnout in the Early Elections by 11:00 was 10.4% (with a statistical margin of error of +\/- 0.50% at a 95% confidence interval). For comparison, turnout in the 2022 General Elections in the Republika Srpska by 11:00 was 17%.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Coalition \u201cPod lupom\u201d urged citizens to report any electoral irregularities they observe via the toll-free number 080 05 05 05 or through the Coalition\u2019s social media channels.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The next press release, covering the voting process, turnout by 15:00, and electoral irregularities reported by 15:00, will be published at 16:00 on <\/span>www.podlupom.org<\/span><\/a> while the next press conference will be held at 22:00 at the Holiday Hotel in Sarajevo.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Coalition \u201cPod lupom\u201d has published key findings from its election day observation up to 12:00, based on reports submitted by its observers deployed to approximately every fifth polling station across the Republika Srpska.\u00a0 By 12:00, the Coalition \u201cPod lupom\u201d recorded 19 serious electoral irregularities, including: 6 cases of missing electoral materials, 5 cases of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22,31],"tags":[308,304,134,90],"class_list":["post-20578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","category-news","category-press-releases","tag-election-in-bosnia","tag-elections","tag-koalicija-pod-lupom-en","tag-pod-lupom-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20581,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578\/revisions\/20581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}