After Bosnia’s ‘Anaemic’ Election Campaign, Polling Day Sees New Challenge

On Saturday, the day before Bosnians vote in general elections, election officials in some 5,700 polling stations are due to switch on scanners and fingerprint readers that most of the country has never used before. This is to run tests and so determine whether the technology works properly. “It is a logistical challenge,” Tihana Bartulec Blanc, president of the US-based NGO Civic Hub and a veteran international election observer, told BIRN. BIRN spoke to three experts about the impact of the nationwide debut of biometric voter checks and ballot scanners, which arrives in a campaign that analysts otherwise describe as lacklustre. Subscribe to Balkan Insight Premium to read the full article. Please login to your account below if you are already a Premium Subscriber. Buy Premium Subscription Our Premium Service gives you full access to all content published on BalkanInsight.com, including analyses, investigations, comments, interviews and more. Choose your subscription today and get unparalleled in-depth coverage of the Southern and Eastern Europe. Buy Premium Subscription If you have trouble logging in or any other questions regarding you account, please contact us