ELECTIONS FOR BH BEGIN IN CROATIA

ZAGREB, Aug 31 (Hina) - Elections for Bosnian citizens in Croatia began at 7 a.m. on Saturday with the opening of 86 election posts all over Croatia. 117,421 Bosnian citizens have registered so far and they will be able to vote today and on Sunday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. At election posts voters must submit a photocopy of form P-1 on which they registered for voting and show an identity document with photo. The voter then gets an envelope containing five ballots. The purple one, for municipal elections, must not be filled in, because municipal elections were delayed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). All Bosnian citizens will vote for a three-member Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina (golden ballot) and the Lower House of BH (white ballot). Voters from the Federation of BH will also vote for the Lower House of the Federation (yellow ballot) and for the assemblies of federal counties (gray ballot). Voters from the Serb entity in BH will vote for the Presidency of Republika Srpska (blue ballot) and for the People's Assembly of Republika Srpska (yellow ballot). Each filled in ballot must be put in an envelope of the same colour and these in a white return-envelope to be sealed and dropped in ballot boxes. The voting is supervised by 30 OSCE members, the organizers of the elections, monitored by more than 220 accredited monitors and followed by more than 150 accredited home and foreign reporters. The National Coordination Committee for the Scheduling and Holding of Elections of Bosnian citizens in Croatia is expected to report twice today on the number of voters who have taken part in the elections. The first report is expected around 2 p.m. (hina) ha jn 311054 MET aug 96