CEC certificate voter list today, and approves balloting

The CEC will hold the next meeting today to certified the final voter list, which will be distributed in the polls on Election Day.

Central Election Commission spokesman Valmir Elezi has declared that the exact time of meeting was not scheduled yet, but that there will be an announcement during the day.

The contents and design of the ballot for early elections for the Kosovo Assembly are also expected to be approved at this meeting.

On the basis of the CEC's plan, it is expected today to start voting via mail, while additional details will be made to the exact number of citizens living abroad and registered as voters from there will be made known at the meetings.

The CEC has indicated yesterday that it has accepted a non-final report from the voting service regarding the period of application to register as voters outside Kosovo. The total number of apps placed on the system was 175,273.

Based on non-final data, the CEC has accepted some 131,500 voter registration applications outside Kosovo from 13 January to 21 January. After the verification, 43,801 apps have been removed as doubles, which have been submitted by applicants more than once to three voter service e-mails during the application period.

Only 33 apps have been accepted through postal fah and 195 others through the CEC fax, while most of them, 131.244, have been accepted through voting service e-mails.

After the application assessment, 101,839 registration applications were approved, while 29.633 were refused. In 29,100 cases, applicants have been rejected because they have not witnessed the identity or criteria of judicial skill or signed the registration app.

In another 65 cases, applicants have been rejected, as they do not reach the age of 18.