The reported turnout at two polling stations in Zvornik (Karakaj D and Tabanci) was so high that, according to these data, one voter should have voted every 53 seconds from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and according to the official results, Siniša Karan received about 80 percent of the votes at both stations, Transparency International BiH announced today.
Data on official voter turnout at different intervals, which Transparency International BiH has since received from the Central Election Commission, indicate possible electoral manipulation according to a similar pattern that has been previously discovered and proven in numerous places.
TIBiH has therefore called on the CEC to further investigate, as the suspicious turnout of 50 seconds per voter was one of the reasons cited in the decision to annul the 2020 elections in Doboj.
This time at 11 polling stations in Doboj, Zvornik and Laktši, where Siniša Karan makes a difference of over 2,900 votes, in some interval the average voting time was 50-70 seconds, and additional suspicion is raised by a sudden jump in turnout at some polling stations in the last hours of voting. In electoral forensics, a suspiciously high turnout combined with unrealistic voting time is considered a serious indicator of possible electoral fraud, which requires further investigation.
TIBiH previously called on the CEC to investigate suspicions of electoral manipulation and published an analysis of vote distribution in relation to turnout, which shows an unnaturally high share of votes for the candidate who won the most votes at a turnout that is many times higher than average. At 40 polling stations where the SNSD candidate has an advantage of 70 percent or more, turnout is far higher than average, and additional suspicion is raised by new data on reported turnout in different intervals.
It should be noted that the CEC initiated the procedure ex officio due to suspicions that the rules of the electoral process were violated, and in the last few days, CEC members have been presenting scandalous information about the extent of electoral manipulation. We remind you that 1,660 voters who allegedly voted were identified and signed, although they do not have any valid personal documents.
The results of graphological analyses that could clarify whether someone massively signed voters who did not vote have yet to be announced. This pattern of rewriting the electoral will of citizens has already been proven by numerous court processes for previous election cycles.
It is important to emphasize that this procedure is still ongoing and that the election result has not been confirmed, despite the dissemination of a large number of false information that the electoral process is over and that the CEC has declared the winner. Therefore, the CEC, despite numerous political pressures, should investigate all suspicions of electoral irregularities regardless of the fact that observers or members of polling stations did not enter any objections to the electoral process in the minutes.
It is important to note that instances of political party-based trafficking in polling stations have been observed before, and TI BiH warns that this has not changed even with the amendments to the law that introduced non-partisan polling station chairmen and their deputies.
