Unauthorised Persons at Polling Stations There were unauthorised persons present in 104 of the ballot box areas observed. This question was answered in 269 forms. The information offered mostly shows that there were police or military officials present. Unauthorised persons other than police officers and military staff were reported in 13 forms. UNAUTHORISED PERSONS 13 32 10 76 POLIS ASKER DIGER POLİS/ASKER ASKER/KORUCU Unauthorised persons FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE NONE 582 60,9 POLICE 76 8,0 MILITARY 10 1,0 OTHER 13 1,4 POLICE/MILITARY 3 ,3 MILITARY/VILLAGE GUARD 2 ,2 Total 686 71,8 MISSING 269 28,2 Total 955 100,0 Examples of notes by observers: ‘There was a police officer right in front of the polling booth in the classroom. We were told that the Ballot Box Committee Chairperson had him stand there’, ‘A police officer was sitting in the polling area (classroom)’, ‘There was a police officer in the classroom’, ‘There were people in civilian clothes carrying rifles without name tags’, ‘They were patrolling the polling area. He was not intervening’, “The neighbourhood headman and members of the ... party were waiting at the ballot box’, ‘There were police officers in the polling room.” With regard to interventions made by unauthorised persons on the Ballot Box Committee, the observers noted the following: ‘The village headman was constantly interfering with the ballot box committee members’, ‘A ballot box committee member was battered by unknown persons, the ballot box chairperson was physically and verbally assaulted. The warnings of the Chairperson were not taken heeded.”