Kragujevac: Student List Reports Seven Fraud Attempts
The list says seven attempts at election fraud were recorded in Kragujevac by 11:30 a.m. and that a member of its mobile team was attacked. The city commission says there were no irregularities.
The student electoral list “Students Win” said on Sunday, October 25, in a post on its Instagram account “studenti_ukg” that seven attempts at election fraud had been recorded in Kragujevac by 11:30 a.m., five of which, it says, were prevented. Milos Avramovic, chair of the Kragujevac City Election Commission, said in Danas’s 12:15 p.m. report that there had been no irregularities at polling stations up to that point.
All the figures on reports from individual polling stations are the list’s own claims and have not been independently confirmed. In the articles we read, there is no response to these allegations from the police in Kragujevac or from the ruling parties.
What the list alleges, polling station by polling station
According to the post, the cases include two instances of the so-called “Bulgarian train” (a voting-fraud scheme), two duplicated voter registers, one case of vote buying and two reported “collection centers”, meaning places where, according to reports of this kind, voters brought in for organized, paid voting are gathered. The post does not give a number of reports about so-called “phantom voters”.
In the second part of the post, the list names individual polling stations:
- 157 and 158: collection center, case marked as resolved
- 75: parallel voter register, marked as resolved
- 108: “Bulgarian train”, being resolved
- 151: “Bulgarian train”, marked as resolved
- 115: vote buying, being resolved
- 96: duplicated voter register
For polling station 96, the list claims that police went to the scene but let the people reported there leave, which is why its legal team filed a criminal complaint. What the police did at that station is not stated in the sources.
What is known about the attack on a mobile team member
Vreme reported that shortly after polling stations opened in Kragujevac, a member of the Student List’s mobile team was physically attacked in a Roma settlement, where, according to that outlet, he was trying to prevent election theft. His daughter, Jovana Jovanovic, told Vreme that her father and another team member spotted vote buying and started filming, after which about ten people chased him and caught up with him at a nearby gas station, where they beat him. She says he took most of the blows to the head, and an ambulance took him away.
Vreme cites Glas Sumadije, which reports that the injured man has a broken nose and is in hospital.
Danas’s 10:55 a.m. live coverage says the Student List’s media representatives confirmed that a member of their mobile team was attacked shortly before 10 a.m. near polling station 161, at the “Treci kragujevacki bataljon” elementary school. The list’s media representatives in Kragujevac told Danas:
“It is an older man who was intercepted by unknown attackers.”
According to the same report, police arrived and he is being examined by emergency medical services. The sources do not say whether this is the same incident Vreme describes, so we do not link them. Danas does not give the number of attackers.
What the City Election Commission says
Avramovic told Danas that turnout in Kragujevac by noon was 34.28 percent, and that the figure was derived from voting at 20 representative polling stations. In his words, there had been no irregularities at polling stations up to then. As far as the sources show, the commission has not specifically responded to the list’s reports about individual polling stations.
Voting in Kragujevac began at 7 a.m. at 174 polling stations, where 153,121 citizens are eligible to vote.
