Voting booth

A 70-year-old man has received a suspended six-month sentence for sexually harassing a 19-year-old soldier at a polling station in the northern Greek town of Thessaloniki on Sunday morning.

The misdemeanor court found him guilty of sexual indecency but accepted his clean record as a mitigating factor.

Over 53 million people on May 14 dropped their votes in more than 190,000 ballot boxes set up across the country for the elections.

The number of voters imprisoned and convicted of negligent crimes was over 50,000.

Three people died of a heart attack at separate polling stations during the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14.

In the Black Sea province of Rize, 64-year-old Şeref Kurt was on duty at one of the polling stations set up at a school where he also voted.

He suddenly collapsed at the polling booth around 9 a.m.

Bulgarian authorities will make sure voting machines are available in all polling stations for the early election on March 26, interim Deputy Prime Minister Stefan Yanev has said.

The election process kicked off at 7 p.m. on September 20, with most voting centers being eerily empty.

Highlights from election day:

* Pollsters were worried that people would prefer the beach over the voting booth. One man chose both:

A headman in Batman's Yolveren village was all by lonesome on June 7, as he was the only person to cast a vote at his polling booth because the locality's other 16 registered voters all now live in Germany.

Village head Mehmet Alcu, 76, had to cast his vote in a neighboring village as a ballot box could not be set up in Yolveren, a Yazidi village, due to security concerns. 

Bulgaria's Central Electoral Committee (CEC) warned that taking of photos in the polling stations is forbidden, reports the Darik national radio.

Polling booths opened in Scotland's historic referendum on independence, with record numbers of Scots expected to cast their vote on whether to stay or leave the United Kingdom