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Polling stations across Bulgaria will not close at 20:00 but at 21:00 as voting for president still goes on, authorities say.

People are still lining up to cast ballots, under a newly adopted regime of compulsory voting.

The election day will thus continue after first exit polls are announced, giving last-minute voters crucial importance in case of a narrow lead.

BELGRADE - Fifteen polling stations across Serbia opened for the repeat parliamentary elections on Wednesday morning.

The polling stations opened on time, at 7 am, and will close at 8 pm, the central electoral commission RIK announced.

BELGRADE - Election silence began at midnight in Serbia ahead of the repeat elections scheduled for Wednesday, May 4, at 15 polling stations across the country.

The election silence ends on May 4 at 8 pm, with preliminary results to be announced on Wednesday evening, the central electoral commission has announced.

The international election observation mission led by the OSCE and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, PACE, on Monday declared that the elections in Serbia were generally conducted in accordance with the law, but admitted problematic issues at polling stations.

The election process for the new leader of New Democracy party should have been started since 7 am on Sunday in 833 polling stations, but polls are not opened yet due to technical problems.

According to information, there are problems with the online system and voters who wanted to vote early in the morning left the polling stations irritated.

Fifty-eight percent of Bulgarian voters plan to cast ballots in the local elections on 25 October, a new poll showed on Tuesday.

Bulgarians living abroad will be able to vote in the national referendum on October 25 on the introduction of remote electronic voting at 312 polling stations in 45 countries.

The largest numbers of polling stations will be opened in the US, Spain, and Germany, according to a media statement of Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

In Greece people usually vote in school buildings which are used as polling stations, but this is not always the case for other countries.

There are many voters in United Kingdom who found themselves marking their ballot in the weirdest locations; caravans, garages and pubs were transformed into polling stations for the election day.

A garage in Croydon

A polling committee head living in Frankfurt has been caught while attempting to vote in the name of somebody else in Turkey's upcoming June 7 general election.

The president of the number six ballot box Hasan Tüfek, who is also a religious official in the city, cast his own vote on May 14 and took photos of himself while voting.

Europe is keeping its eyes on the “prize” of UK elections today, with polling estimates assured that it’s going to be a long night, and that no party will manage to hold on to a clear majority win.