MINOR DIFFICULTIES IN BOSNIAN ELECTIONS IN CROATIA - ZORIC

ZAGREB, Aug 31 (Hina) - Voting of Bosnian citizens in Croatia is proceeding without difficulties and their turn up is good, head of the National Coordination Committee for preparing and implementing elections of Bosnian citizens in Croatia, Damir Zoric, said on Saturday. #L# He said that there had been "some difficulties and minor incidents", such as the voting of "refugees who were placed into the entity in which they do not belong by the OSCE electoral Commission". He cited the example of a protest by refugees from Ravno who had voted in Dubrovnik because they had received voting ballots for voting in the Serb entity. The similar thing had happened to refugees from Bugojno who voted in Omis, Zoric said, adding that such incidents had also happened with refugees from Livno, Tomislavgrad, Ljubuski and other places in Split, Dubrovnik, Zagreb etc. In Sisak, Karlovac, Makarska and Split, some envelopes did not contain ballots, while in Split several envelopes had been found containing two voting ballots for the Serb entity. Zoric recalled that the electoral material had been printed and delivered to the National electoral Committee by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). "A slight provocation and conflict among Moslems happened in the Gasinci refugee camp this morning," Zoric said, explaining that a voter, claiming to be blind, had asked the president of the Electoral Committee, also a refugee, to cast his vote by marking a party. However, he marked a party of his own choice. The 'blind' voter suddenly regained sight and protested against the Commission's president's choice. Zoric added that the president of this Electoral Commission had been replaced at once. Zoric also warned about the problem of the delay of the accreditation of 23 OSCE observers which had only arrived on Saturday morning, adding that their accreditation had been refused. (hina) lm 311735 MET aug 96