B-H ELECTIONS PROCEEDING AS PLANNED - NATIONAL COORDINATION COMMIT

COMMIT $ TEE ZAGREB, 1 Sept (Hina) - The turnout at the elections for Bosnian citizens in Croatia was 65,317 or 56% of all registered voters by 1 p.m. today, the head of the National Coordination Committee, Damir Zoric said. The elections were proceeding as planned and there were few irregularities. One of the irregularities referred to the voters who had been offered ballots intended for the Serb entity. At the polling station in Dubrovnik, 963 refugees from Ravno and a smaller number of residents of Kalesija were given wrong ballots. At the polling place in Kastel, 55 wrong ballots had been distributed among 38 Bugojno residents, 12 Livno resident and five Tomislavgrad residents. Similar irregularities had been noticed with the voters from Stolac, Bosanski Samac and Doboj. The National Coordination Committee had asked from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe to repeat elections for all voters who did not vote due to those irregularities. Elections were completed yesterday at the polling stations in Korcula, Cres-Losinj, Rab, Obonjan and Vis. (hina) rm 011644 MET sep 96