The elections have not yet been called, but activists in Serbia are once again pointing to voter-roll manipulation and the artificial registration of voters’ addresses, with a total of 253 voters registered at the address of a house in Priboj.
“I checked it on the website where it is possible to search by address, and it is true that 253 people are registered at that house. I also checked Google Maps and, indeed, it is a house that may have some 60 square meters of usable space at most, let’s say even 100, but that is still an enormous number of voters in one place,” Danijel Dašić, an activist and member of the Inquiry Commission into the Novi Sad canopy collapse, told IZLAZ.com.
He says that the practice of registering a large number of voters at a single address is consistent with previous elections.
“Obviously, there is a tendency to register people… since now it seems they can no longer register them at transformer stations, gas stations and things like that, because that is too obvious, just as with those house numbers marked 000. So now they are moving to real physical structures and trying to create all this confusion with phantom voters,” Dašić said.
He also wrote to the OSCE and ODIHR on social media, drawing attention to what he described as a serious anomaly concerning the voter register for the upcoming elections in the Republic of Serbia and requesting an official assessment and investigation within their election-monitoring mandates.
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According to official public registry data, 253 voters are registered at a single residential address, Bore Penezića 1, Priboj, Republic of Serbia, in a house of approximately 60 square meters.
“An average density of more than four voters per square meter indicates artificial address registration designed to manipulate voter rolls. The OSCE and ODIHR should investigate the administrative and legal responsibility related to this registration, with particular focus on the officials who approved residence registration for 253 people in a private 60-square-meter house without verifying their physical residence, and whether local police officers in Priboj failed to carry out the necessary field checks before issuing residence approvals,” Dašić stated in his message to the international organizations.
He requested that they call on the state authorities to conduct an urgent, transparent field inspection of this case in Priboj, as well as advise the Government of Serbia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to initiate disciplinary and criminal proceedings against officials who approved the false residence status.
Phantom voters in Serbia represent a controversial phenomenon involving the fictitious registration of citizens at addresses where they do not actually live, with the aim of influencing election results. Opposition parties and election-monitoring missions have pointed to this problem in previous elections as well.



