Polling place

A 70-year-old man has received a suspended six-month sentence for sexually harassing a 19-year-old soldier at a polling station in the northern Greek town of Thessaloniki on Sunday morning.

The misdemeanor court found him guilty of sexual indecency but accepted his clean record as a mitigating factor.

Authorities on Crete have said that the returning officer from one polling station is missing, along with the bag containing the votes cast.

The officer was assigned to the 198th polling station, which was based at the 13th Primary School in Iraklio, the island's biggest city.

The distribution of electoral materials at schools around the country designated as polling stations continues unabated in the run-up to Greece's national elections.

Over 53 million people on May 14 dropped their votes in more than 190,000 ballot boxes set up across the country for the elections.

The number of voters imprisoned and convicted of negligent crimes was over 50,000.

Three people died of a heart attack at separate polling stations during the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14.

In the Black Sea province of Rize, 64-year-old Şeref Kurt was on duty at one of the polling stations set up at a school where he also voted.

He suddenly collapsed at the polling booth around 9 a.m.

With excitement and anticipation seen on people's faces, Türkiye headed to the most critical elections in its 100-year history, as millions of Turks flocked to the polling stations across the country on May 14 to elect their new president and members of the 600-seat parliament.

Ljubljana – The National Electoral Commission (DVK) has proposed that the Government Office for Digital Transformation and the Interior Ministry set up of a digital electoral roll. It believes this would make the work of electoral bodies and the election more efficient.

Ljubljana – Proponents of the referendum on the waters act have sharply criticised the organisation of the voting, alleging voter suppression regarding information on how and where people can vote early and polling station staffing. “We are faced with inadmissible curtailing of voting rights,” Aljoša Petek of the Legal Information Centre said on Tuesday.

The Central Election Commission has announced a list of places abroad where polling stations will operate during the snap parliamentary elections on July 11, and their estimated number of polling stations. A decision was made according to the places abroad where at least one polling station was formed after July 11, 2016 and not less than 100 citizens voted, BNR reporter Maria Kostova informed.

The polling stations organized in the country for the appointment of future deputies and senators have closed on Sunday, the electoral process coming to an end. Romanians in the country went to the polls on Sunday in over 18,800 polling stations, starting at 7:00 hrs.