Overview
- The state election commission ordered voting repeated in 136 of roughly 2,200 polling stations after finding serious irregularities and suspected fraud in November.
- By late Sunday, the commission had not published official results, and parties relied on counts from their poll-site agents to declare outcomes.
- Independent observers reported fresh abuses during the repeat, including voter pressure and vote buying.
- Karan’s November lead was under 10,000 votes, and about 84,500 people were eligible to vote in the re-run, leaving a theoretical path for reversal that did not materialize.
- Karan is a confidant of SNSD leader Milorad Dodik, and the November election followed a Sarajevo court removing Dodik as RS president for separatist activities.