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Dates set for public inspection of Kosovo voters list
PRISTINA 11 August 2000
PRISTINA, 11 August 2000 - Everyone voting in Kosovo's upcoming local elections will have a chance to check their details on the provisional voters lists later this month as part of the standard process to finalise the voters list.
Each of the 448 registration centres around Kosovo will have the provisional list of people eligible to vote there on election day available for inspection between Monday 21 August and Wednesday 30 August. The centers will be open on a rotating basis from 10am - 6pm during those days, including Sunday. On order to check the lists, people should go to the centre where they originally registered. In the vast majority of cases, this centre will also be their polling station on election day.
The aim of the ten-day Confirmation, Additions and Challenges (CAC) inspection period is to give registrants an opportunity to confirm that their own entries on the provisional voters lists are correct.
To qualify for inclusion on the Voters List, each person has to fulfil the following criteria.
They must:
Anyone who has their blue registration receipt and should be on the voters list but whose name does not appear on it will be able to apply to have it added.
During the CAC period, eligible voters who registered to vote from outside of Kosovo but who have now permanently returned to their municipality will also be able to apply to change their polling station to that municipality.
During the CAC period, registered voters will also be able to inspect the full voters list for their municipality and challenge any name on it. A challenge can be made if, for example, someone whose name is on the list is deceased or will not be at least 18 years old on 1 October 2000.
There will be one complete list for each of Kosovo's thirty municipalities available for inspection in a designated centre.
The provisional voters list will only contain the information necessary to enable confirmations, additions and challenges.
Challenges will be considered by the Election Complaints and Appeals sub-Commission (ECAC).
Once the provisional lists have been checked and corrected, the Final Voters List has to be certified by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, Dr Kouchner.
For information, contact Roland Bless, Spokesperson, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Tel: (+381-38) 500-162 or satphone: 871-762-009-948 ext. 260 / mobile: (+389-70) 250-576 / email: press@omik.org; website: //www.osce.org/kosovo/
Each of the 448 registration centres around Kosovo will have the provisional list of people eligible to vote there on election day available for inspection between Monday 21 August and Wednesday 30 August. The centers will be open on a rotating basis from 10am - 6pm during those days, including Sunday. On order to check the lists, people should go to the centre where they originally registered. In the vast majority of cases, this centre will also be their polling station on election day.
The aim of the ten-day Confirmation, Additions and Challenges (CAC) inspection period is to give registrants an opportunity to confirm that their own entries on the provisional voters lists are correct.
To qualify for inclusion on the Voters List, each person has to fulfil the following criteria.
They must:
- have already successfully registered and have their blue registration receipt;
- and be at least 18 years of age or over on October 1st 2000.
Anyone who has their blue registration receipt and should be on the voters list but whose name does not appear on it will be able to apply to have it added.
During the CAC period, eligible voters who registered to vote from outside of Kosovo but who have now permanently returned to their municipality will also be able to apply to change their polling station to that municipality.
During the CAC period, registered voters will also be able to inspect the full voters list for their municipality and challenge any name on it. A challenge can be made if, for example, someone whose name is on the list is deceased or will not be at least 18 years old on 1 October 2000.
There will be one complete list for each of Kosovo's thirty municipalities available for inspection in a designated centre.
The provisional voters list will only contain the information necessary to enable confirmations, additions and challenges.
Challenges will be considered by the Election Complaints and Appeals sub-Commission (ECAC).
Once the provisional lists have been checked and corrected, the Final Voters List has to be certified by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, Dr Kouchner.
For information, contact Roland Bless, Spokesperson, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Tel: (+381-38) 500-162 or satphone: 871-762-009-948 ext. 260 / mobile: (+389-70) 250-576 / email: press@omik.org; website: //www.osce.org/kosovo/