Contrary to the prescribed election procedure, police seized election

materials in two towns in Vojvodina, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC)

has learned.

On September 27, the complete election materials were taken from the

offfice of the local election commission in the town hall at Backa

Topola. The day before, 26 September, police took all the reports on

election returns and ballot slips collected from some 50 polling

stations from the election commission office in Mali Idjos.

Laszlo Istvan, member of the election commission in Backa Topola, told

the HLC that when he asked the uniformed police officers to explain

their action, they responded that they were taking the materials ôto the

Federal Election Commission in Subotica for verification.ö

Laszlo Istvan is a member of the Union of Vojvodina Hungarians.