The recount of 185 regular polling stations, carried out by the Central Election Commission to verify the accuracy of the counting of votes at the Municipal Counting Centers, did not reveal any irregularities that would justify the extension of this process to other polling stations.

In the parliamentary elections of December 28 of last year, the verification of the counting in some polling stations raised serious suspicions of manipulation of votes of candidates for deputies.

These doubts led the Central Election Commission to decide on the recount of all polling stations, while, by order of the Prosecutor’s Office, hundreds of people engaged in the process of counting votes and who represented various political subjects were arrested.

However, just a few months later, in the elections of June 7 of this year, the recount process has produced a a completely different picture.

CEC spokesperson, Valmir Elezi, has shown that the recounted sample includes polling stations from all Kosovo municipalities and according to the findings, they are mainly related to the recategorization of ballots from invalid to valid and human errors during the initial counting.

“The Central Election Commission has recounted 185 out of a total of 2,498 regular polling stations, whose ballots were previously counted in the Municipal Counting Centers. The selected sample included ballots from all municipalities, in order to verify the accuracy of the counting process. The recount of 7.41% of regular ballots did not show the need for further recounts. The differences found were mainly related to the recategorization of ballots from invalid to valid as well as with human errors during the initial counting. Therefore, no grounds have been found that would require the recount process to be extended to other polling stations,” said Elezi.

According to Elez, even among the candidates for deputies, the changes were almost negligible.

In 92 percent of cases, the difference was only one vote for the candidate in the respective polling station, while the cases with larger changes were rare.

“After the recount, by comparing the votes of the candidates for parliament, the findings show that most of the differences are minimal. In 92% of the cases, the difference was only 1 vote per candidate in that polling station. This means that if a candidate had 50 votes in a polling station from the first count, after the recount his result may have been 49 votes or 51 votes. Differences greater than one vote were rare: 118 cases with an increase of 3 votes and only 2 cases with a decrease of 2 votes, 4 cases with a decrease of 4 votes, Elezi told KosovaPress. recorded corrections, with a total of 36 votes added and 20 subtracted, resulting in a net change of only 16 votes.

“Also, after the recount of 185 polling stations, changes in the votes of political entities were recorded in 27 polling stations of 16 municipalities. In general, a total of 36 votes were added to political entities, while 20 votes were subtracted. For example, one entity (A) may have had 100 votes in the initial count and have 102 votes (+2). Another subject (B) may have had 80 votes and dropped to 78 (-2), while another subject (C) may have had little change, i.e. +1 or no change at all. This shows that the results of the political subjects before and after the recount are almost the same, with minimal corrections in some polling stations. Elezi.

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In the previous elections held on December 28, 2025, the Central Election Commission had decided to recount all polling stations as during the initial verifications and the recount of some of the polling stations, inconsistencies in the counting of the candidates’ votes were evident.

According to the CEC, watching the video recordings from the Municipal Counting Centers and verifying of ballots in a sample of polling stations showed that in some cases the votes recorded in the counting results did not match the votes recorded on the ballots.

In order to guarantee the accuracy of the final result and the integrity of the election process, the CEC had decided to recount all regular polling stations, 2,557 of them, and the process had lasted almost three weeks.

Source: prizrenpost