ECAP, on 16.10.2019 received the complaint A.no. 374/2019 submitted by political entity
Levizja Vetevendosje (LVV) with allegations that on 16.10.2019 at the Count and Results
Center (CRC), while counting the votes received by post service, there were three ballots
announced as invalid contrary to Article 6 and 7 of Election Regulation 06/2013, by
defining additional criteria which are not provided as per provisions of the mentioned
regulation. According to the complaint submitter, CEC has announced invalid the three
mentioned ballots with the reasoning that the ballots were printed on A4PDF format
whereas CEC has published them in A3 PDF format. Further they added that while printing
those ballots, the last line was not printed and that this was the reason why CEC has
announced these ballots as invalid. In the amendment to the complaint 374/3 dated
17.10.2019 political entity LVV mentioned that CEC has announced 170 other ballots
invalid for identical reason, only because the last line of the ballots was not completely
shown so there was a non-legal criteria on which these ballots were announced as invalid.
The submitter of the complaint claimed that the 170 ballots which were announced as
invalid, were found in the ballot boxes for municipalities as follows: BM001/001,
BM025/003, BM002/001, BM002/004, BM002/005, BM006/003, BM031/001,
BM007/002, BM007/001, BM008/001, BM030/002,
BM030/001, BM019/002,
BM019/004, BM019/006, BM020/004, BM020/001,BM012/001, BM021/001,
BM024/002, BM024/001, BM026/003, BM026/002, BM026/001, BM027/003 and
BM010/003.
The submitter of the complaint claims that the entire technical process was conducted in
accordance with Article 4 of Election Regulation 03/2013 Voting outside of Kosovo as the
Article 6 of Election Regulation 06/2013 was accurately respected whereas the ballots
which were announced invalid are not qualified on any of the categories provided in Article
7 paragraph 2 of Election Regulation 06/2013 on which these ballots can be announced as
invalid ones.
The response of CEC received by email on 18.10.2019 Central Election Commission, upon
review of the complaint and allegations of the complainant states the following: Center for
Counting and Results during the counting of votes received by mail encountered ballots
which due to the printing issues in some of the ballots all political subjects /entities are not
visible. CEC has approved the ballots in which all certified political entities were placed
and listed according to the lot drown and which entities competed for Early Election for
Assembly of Kosova on 06.10.2019. The allegations of the complaint include printed
ballots without one or more political entities and the reason why Counting center
announced these ballots invalid is that the printed ballots did contain all certified political
entities which were listed by lot and which ballots were approved by CEC. Attached as
evidence are ballots which were announced as invalid by CRC because there not all
political entities there.