The same pattern is observed in ballot boxes in prisons where there are few voters.
Ballot Boxes in Prisons
PROVINCE
DISTRICT
ADIYAMAN KAHTA
DENİZLİ
İZMİR
İZMİR
BOZKURT
TORBALI
KINIK
İZMİR
TİRE
ANKARA
GÜDÜL
KAYSERİ
KAYSERİ
KAYSERİ
PINARBAŞI
TOMARZA
YAHYALI
MANİSA
KULA
MANİSA
TEKİRDAĞ
TRABZON
SELENDİ
SARAY
ARAKLI
NAME OF PRISON
KAHTA KAPALI CEZA VE İNFAZ KURUMU
T.C.DENİZLİ-BOZKURT KADIN AÇIK CEZA
İNFAZ KURUMU
TORBALI CEZA VE TUTUK EVİ
KINIK KAPALI CEZAEVİ
TİRE CEZAEVİ İNFAZ KORUMA BAŞ
MEMURLUĞU
GÜDÜL K1 TİPİ KAPALI CEZAEVİ İNFAZ
KORUMA
PINARBAŞI AÇIK CEZA İNFAZ KURUMU
MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ
TOMARZA KAPALI CEZAEVİ
YAHYALI KAPALI CEZA VE TUTUKEVİ
MANİSA KULA K2 TİPİ KAPALI CEZA İNFAZ
KURUMU
MANİSA SELENDİ K2 TİPİ KAPALI CEZA
İNFAZ KURUMU
SARAY KAPALI CEZAEVİ
ARAKLI AÇIK CEZA İNFAZ KURUMU MÜD.
BALLOT
NUMBER OF
BOX
# OF
VOTERS
NO
VOTERS WHO VOTED
9900
1
0
9900
9900
9900
4
14
2
0
0
0
9900
2
0
9900
2
0
9900
9900
9900
4
1
1
0
0
0
9900
3
0
9900
9900
9900
2
1
5
0
0
0
* The table above was created by scanning the ballot box results published on the SBE web site under the
title Ballot Box-based Countrywide Election Results.
As can be understood from the above table, voters do not cast their vote if they are registered in a ballot
box with few voters. In addition, in ballot boxes where there are one or two voters, the counting will reveal
which party the voter voted for. This situation is a violation of the principle of secrecy of votes by the SBE
right at the beginning when the ballot boxes are being created.
In the Novembers 1st elections, observers also reported collective voting and voting for someone else:
‘A person who came to cast a vote saw that someone had already signed across his/her name on the
registry. Someone else had cast a vote in his/her name.’, ‘People being unable to vote because of others
signing across their names’, ‘The village headman said that they were a tribe and that women would
not come to the ballot box to cast their vote. He was voting in the name of the village women.’
‘Someone signed for their spouse, this was objected to. Then everyone voted for themselves’, ‘A
mentally disabled voter was accompanied by her mother’, ‘A voter who had walking difficulties was
accompanied by his/her son to the polling booth. The son directed his/her vote. The Ballot Box
Committee member from the .... made an official complaint’. ‘We arrived at the ballot box area at 10:00
and observed that 111 votes had already been cast. The signatures were all very similar.’, ‘Collective
voting took place’. ‘There was open collective voting while we were observing.’ ‘There was open voting.
All voting was completed by 10:00 o’clock’.