Independent observers reported hundreds of marked ballots in a northwestern Bosnian municipality whose residents are casting their ballots on Sunday in the vote that is being repeated due to the irregularities reported on the election day, November 15.

The election watchdog ‘Pod lupom’ said they observed nearly 400 previously marked ballots at one of the polling stations in Novi Grad, whose local vote from November 15 was annulled over the interrupted voting process and irregularities in the work of the election board.

The observers reported the fraud to the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the competent police precinct.

They said it was “almost unbelievable that someone dared to bring in hundreds of previously marked ballots and to plan a vote theft at a polling station that is seeing repeated vote today in Bosnia and Herzegovina and which is in the focus of attention of public, political entities and observers.”

The election watchdog urged the electoral administration, especially the one at the local level, not to be part of election irregularities by trying to conceal them.

They called for the sanctions that would be proportional to the reported irregularity.