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Counting underway in Kosovo municipal elections
PRISTINA 29 October 2000
PRISTINA, 29 October 2000 - Counting and processing of votes cast in yesterday's municipal elections is underway at the Central Counting and Results Centre in Pristina.
Polling continued late into the night in some areas with the last polling station finally closing its doors at 01:00 in Pristina. Polling in the other regions - Prizren, Mitrovica, Gjilan / Gnjilane, Peja / Pec - finished before midnight.
At the polling stations, counting of regular ballots started about half an hour after the last voter was processed. In Pristina, the last polling station count finished at 04:00 while in Peja / Pec, counting continued until dawn.
The first ballot boxes and results forms from the polling stations started arriving at the Central Counting and Results Centre at 05:00 this morning.
Staff there had already begun operations at 19:00 on Saturday evening, checking, sorting and counting ballots cast under the Special Needs Voting Programme, as well as the Out-of-Kosovo mail-in ballots which had arrived by air from Vienna earlier in the day. They will also be counting the absentee and conditional ballots cast in polling stations yesterday.
To minimize the time needed to complete the process, operations at the Central Counting and Results Centre in Pristina will continue around-the-clock with a number of activities being conducted in parallel.
While conditional ballots are being adjudicated, teams elsewhere in the Centre will be sorting and counting the other types of ballots. As counts for the 30 different municipalities are completed, the results will be entered into the computer programme.
Partial results from Saturday's poll are expected sometime Monday.
The poll and the count are being monitored by more than 6,000 domestic and international observers
For further information on the Kosovo municipal elections, contact OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Press and Public Information Section, tel.: +381-38-500-162; fax: +381-38-500-188; e-mail: press@omik.org; Mr. Roland Bless, Spokesperson, (ext. 260), mobile: +377-44-158-847 (044-124-065 within Kosovo) ; or +389-70-250-576; Ms. Laura O'Mahony, Press Officer, (ext. 118), mobile: +389-70-250-434; +377-44-158-843 (044-158-843 within Kosovo); Mr. Sven Lindholm, Press Officer, (ext. 218), mobile: +389-70-250-435 or +377-44-158-845
Polling continued late into the night in some areas with the last polling station finally closing its doors at 01:00 in Pristina. Polling in the other regions - Prizren, Mitrovica, Gjilan / Gnjilane, Peja / Pec - finished before midnight.
At the polling stations, counting of regular ballots started about half an hour after the last voter was processed. In Pristina, the last polling station count finished at 04:00 while in Peja / Pec, counting continued until dawn.
The first ballot boxes and results forms from the polling stations started arriving at the Central Counting and Results Centre at 05:00 this morning.
Staff there had already begun operations at 19:00 on Saturday evening, checking, sorting and counting ballots cast under the Special Needs Voting Programme, as well as the Out-of-Kosovo mail-in ballots which had arrived by air from Vienna earlier in the day. They will also be counting the absentee and conditional ballots cast in polling stations yesterday.
To minimize the time needed to complete the process, operations at the Central Counting and Results Centre in Pristina will continue around-the-clock with a number of activities being conducted in parallel.
While conditional ballots are being adjudicated, teams elsewhere in the Centre will be sorting and counting the other types of ballots. As counts for the 30 different municipalities are completed, the results will be entered into the computer programme.
Partial results from Saturday's poll are expected sometime Monday.
The poll and the count are being monitored by more than 6,000 domestic and international observers
For further information on the Kosovo municipal elections, contact OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Press and Public Information Section, tel.: +381-38-500-162; fax: +381-38-500-188; e-mail: press@omik.org; Mr. Roland Bless, Spokesperson, (ext. 260), mobile: +377-44-158-847 (044-124-065 within Kosovo) ; or +389-70-250-576; Ms. Laura O'Mahony, Press Officer, (ext. 118), mobile: +389-70-250-434; +377-44-158-843 (044-158-843 within Kosovo); Mr. Sven Lindholm, Press Officer, (ext. 218), mobile: +389-70-250-435 or +377-44-158-845