The researchers of the Action of Progressive Vojvodina (APV) cross-referenced data from voter lists and those obtained under the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance, such as the number of deceased and displaced people, and estimated the number of new adults. Based on all that, they came to the conclusion that from April 2022 to the 2023 elections, the number of newly registered voters in Novi Sad increased by as much as 38.000, which is 10 percent of the electorate.
"Theoretically, it is impossible that Novi Sad received more than 30.000 new adult citizens in 20 months, or an average of 50 every day," the organization states.
They went public with the information that many citizens have residences at addresses in Novi Sad where there are no apartments or residential buildings. "This clearly indicates that it is a matter of systematic and organized registration of citizens from other municipalities, or surrounding states, to addresses that are not intended for residence, in order to influence the results of the republican and then local elections," states this organization.
The role of Marko Bosanc Bosket in electoral engineering
Earlier, the APV stated that "electoral engineering" was carried out to the greatest extent in the suburban settlements of Kać and Bukovac, as well as in the city districts of Liman 1 and Novo naselje. In Bukovac, for the observed period (20 months), the number of voters increased by 10,5 percent, and 182 voters appear on the voter list with surnames that never existed in this settlement. In Liman 1, in 20 months, from the elections of 2022 to the elections of 2023, the number of voters increased by 25,7 percent, which, as this organization claims, is absolutely impossible, because this part of the city has long since been completed and there are no new ones. residential building.
Similar tendencies were observed in Kać and Novi naselje.
The Movement for Overturn, also a member of "Serbia Against Violence", also released the data. He announced that in the last elections in Novi Sad, the Serbian Progressive Party organized "parallel voting" by thousands of people voting in at least two polling stations in this city.
"Criminal acts, punishable by our legislation, were carried out by the same persons voting at several polling stations in Novi Sad. For those actions, they were paid a reward of 50 euros. They voted in the area of Liman, Detelinara, Novi našelj, and then in suburban areas such as Bukovac, Kovilja or Kać. Part of the voters was fictitiously relocated within the city settlements, so part of the voters were fictitiously registered at some polling stations in Liman. At the same time, they remained on the voter lists at their old addresses. There is a similar situation in Novi naselje," the PzP press release states.
This party states that 80 persons have registered for these elections at just one home address in Bukovac. He claims that one of the main organizers of parallel voting is the controversial businessman Marko Bosanac Boske, whose companies have been getting the most lucrative jobs from public companies for years. About Bosket, the Slavic godfather of the Novi Sad SNS, the right-hand man of Zvonko Veselinović, a convicted thug and the owner of many criminal charges, "Vreme" is already wrote.
Kolarski: Fraud at the "software level"
Bogdan Kolarski from the Action of Progressive Vojvodina, who has been engaged in election analysis for decades, reminds in an interview with the "Vremena" portal that the procedure for changing one's address is complicated and that it involves going to the local police station with the owner of the property (if the person is not the owner only) and filling in form, then application to the "registrar", who changes the address on the voter list.
However, he thinks that the progressive "electoral engineering" is carried out in most cases only at the "software level", that is, that the procedures have apparently been skipped. He says that it will be "interesting" to see if the Ministry of Internal Affairs has all the reports they recorded.
Kolarski reiterates that the most drastic examples of these irregularities were recorded in Bukovac and Kać, at Liman I and Novi Naselje.
"At all 'problematic' polling stations, only 25 days after the election, voters are removed from the voter list. We found registered voters at the FC 'Kabel' stadium, the Đački igraliste, and in private houses - dozens of them," he says, adding that, according to his knowledge, some property owners who registered new voters at their addresses received money or were released payment of utility services.
When asked why the opposition did not control voter lists before, Kolarski answers: "It is difficult to control these events outside the election process." Voter lists were opened only recently, in 2022, with very limited data on each voter, only first and last name. But that does not change the matter, the data exists and can be compared later. Every change in the voter list is recorded, when the change was made, which official made it. Those logs are stored on the server. Persons who agree to register at a false address, the 'landlord', and the MUP officer are certainly in trouble, if there is no valid documentation," says Kolarski.
He also says that the results of the elections are "significantly different from the will of the citizens with such voter lists".
The solution - the formation of a working body for "cleaning" the voter list
Kolarski believes that the opposition must constantly monitor irregularities and inform the public, domestic and foreign, about them. There must be no fatigue, he says. "We have to put constant pressure on the government, with the aim of forming a working body, which would include representatives of the opposition and independent experts, which would clear up the irregularities." Otherwise, citizens will become passive, and that is exactly what the government wants," he believes.
Kolarski expects that the impetus for the "cleaning" of voter lists will also come from international bodies and institutions. The government will pretend that the opinion of the international community does not affect them, but it will only be directed at the domestic public. "Listening to the members of SNS, they have serious concerns about the outcome of these criminal acts," says Kolarski.
"The message to the citizens is that they should not be discouraged. The election result of 'Serbia against violence' is historic, the best result of the opposition in the past 11 years," Kolarski points out. "Every citizen can help in uncovering fraud, if they have knowledge, by contacting us or one of the SPN members. It should also be noted that we will continue to monitor the movement of voters even more intensively, and that any act of false reporting is a criminal offense that will be prosecuted."
The right to free and fair elections has been abolished
Since the Serbian Progressive Party came to power, the citizens of Serbia have lost their right to free and fair elections. It has long been a commonplace, supported by numerous evidences. In addition to the media darkness, vote buying, i.e. corruption of citizens, blackmail of employees in the public sectors and their families, and coercion of employees in connected private companies to vote for the Serbian Progressive Party, as well as Bulgarian trains and ordinary thefts at insufficiently controlled polling stations - the December elections offered are irrefutable arguments that there are drastic problems with voter lists, which - to put it mildly - do not correspond to reality.
There was a lot of talk about it before, but now the doubts, if they existed, have been removed. Voter lists are repackaged, so called. phantom voters are transported around Serbia, from the country and abroad, some voters probably vote in several places, probably individuals with falsified documents. Voters are registered at the addresses of substations, stadiums, school playgrounds... More voters "live" in certain housing units than there are square meters....
As we learn, the voter lists have already been significantly "corrected" for the 2014 elections, and the progressive activists have gotten so excited in the meantime that they are arguing with each other, and even fighting, over who will "transfer" more phantom voters to "their" electoral roll. places. Namely, their further career depends on the election results - that's how the party is structured.
Anyway, all the "great victories" of the Serbian Progressive Party of the past decade have been called into question, to say the least - they have been exaggerated.
