Kosovo Serb says he was not allowed to vote

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Kosovo Serb Vukasin Barac told N1 on Monday that he was not allowed to vote at Sunday’s local elections because someone had already voted in his name.

Barac said that he went to his local polling station in the town of Leposavic late on Sunday afternoon but was told that someone had already voted in his name and that the voter records were signed with his initials. He showed a photograph of the voting record.

“The picture shows that the person registered before and after me signed their names in full, not just initials which means that there was no accidental omission,” he said.

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According to Barac, Serb List members of the polling station committee registered the irregularity and tried to convince him that the initials were not BV but BU. “They literally chased me out of the polling station at the school and did not allow me to vote,” he said.

Barac said that he wanted to vote for a rival of the Belgrade-backed Serb List and added that associates of the Serb List candidate tried to convince him not to file a complaint with the election commission.

He told the KoSSev news portal that members of the Serb List called him during the day to threaten him.