Bosnia and Herzegovina: N1 Bosnia and Herzegovina

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00:00:00parallel of Gen Z they have such a wide
00:00:03range of cities around the world that suit them, yes
00:00:07well, thank you, Esmir, very much for the overview, not only
00:00:10important but also interesting current events, but research from
00:00:13the world, we will return to a domestic topic in the next few minutes that will
00:00:17certainly mark the coming
00:00:19months.
00:00:28We'll be back soon and... current topics and guests, friend of
00:00:32the show General Hospital Medicana
00:00:34Sarajevo
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00:03:02We return to the show Novi Dan, friend of the show General
00:03:06Hospital Medicana Sarajevo.
00:03:19Welcome back. As we know, the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina this
00:03:22year will be different than
00:03:25card, passport or travel document and ever before. For the first time we will vote with biometric
00:03:28voter identification. electronic scanners and
00:03:31completely different ballots,
00:03:34it was just yesterday and the day before yesterday that the Central Election Commission presented
00:03:38their final appearance, many citizens still do not
00:03:41know how the very act of voting will actually
00:03:45look, so we will use the next few minutes as
00:03:48a practical guide through election day, from the moment you
00:03:52arrive at the polling station, through identification and taking the ballot
00:03:55up to the correct filling and insertion of the ballot
00:03:59into the scanners or ballot boxes. Our guest is
00:04:03a member of the Central Election Commission, Professor Suad
00:04:06Arnautović. Thank you very much for your valuable time for
00:04:09all extremely, I would say, important
00:04:12clarifications. And if we can, in the next
00:04:15few minutes, prevent as many invalid ballots as possible, let's
00:04:19do that. Therefore, as we agreed, we will be
00:04:22very simple, expressing ourselves in the simplest possible
00:04:26language so that this remains, well, certainly also the next
00:04:30two months, a simple guide for the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:04:34so for the first time we have what we have been waiting for for a very long time, modern election
00:04:37technologies, let's start from the beginning of election day for
00:04:41citizens when they arrive at the polling station, what will be different
00:04:45during their identification, thank you
00:04:47very much, good morning, once again and
00:04:50registrations at thank you for the invitation, uh, so, the first thing that all our
00:04:54citizens, voters with voting rights, need to
00:04:57know, is what identification documents
00:05:00to bring with them to the polling
00:05:03station, so Article 5 point 12 of the Election Law stipulates
00:05:07that these are valid
00:05:09valid three valid documents. valid
00:05:12ID card, valid passport, valid
00:05:15driver's license, I emphasize the word valid and
00:05:19that's why I ask them to check now if any of these three documents are expiring,
00:05:23if the expiration date has already passed, if it will
00:05:26expire in the next few
00:05:29weeks, that document, so it's very important that it be
00:05:33a valid personal document, mhm, and regardless of
00:05:36all technologies, that part doesn't change, that part doesn't change, you know, if it's
00:05:40an invalid document about... this voter will not be able to
00:05:44because it's a strict legal provision, he wouldn't be able to exercise his
00:05:48voting right, upon arrival, so
00:05:51we - we now have two procedures, that's the novelty,
00:05:54we have voter identification and their
00:05:57authentication, mhm, confirming that it's that person,
00:06:01so identification is done with those three personal
00:06:04documents, it's handed to a member of the polling board who is in charge of
00:06:07identification, he scans through this document, I call it short
00:06:11and... That's a device that
00:06:15biom in which
00:06:18voters are identified through their biometric data
00:06:22stored in the ID, so the moment you were at the Ministry
00:06:26of Interior getting that
00:06:28document, you took a picture and gave your fingerprints, so your
00:06:31biometric data, I must emphasize
00:06:35for all those, so to speak, disbelievers who tried
00:06:38to dispute this process that it is completely
00:06:42protected personal data of
00:06:46voters in such a way that the picture is not visible at all, there is no image,
00:06:50so no fingerprint, but it is an algorithm, so
00:06:53a set of numerical symbols
00:06:56which cannot be converted back into
00:07:00an image, so that is very important
00:07:04due to some public statements, so to
00:07:07speak, of responsible persons from the agency for personal data protection who
00:07:11somehow questioned whether
00:07:15this process would violate
00:07:18the law on personal data protection, so absolutely no,
00:07:22there is complete protection and it is not
00:07:24possible to convert a fingerprint into an image. After
00:07:28the identification is done,
00:07:31then the authentication of that voter is done, so he must
00:07:35put his right index finger
00:07:39on the same device.
00:07:43mm which will be matched, his data will be combined, so
00:07:47to speak, with the biometrics that are already stored
00:07:50in the device that we got from the ID, right,
00:07:54his picture will be shown on the screen and that completes the process.
00:07:58After that, the device prints a slip, a
00:08:01confirmation that the voter signs and
00:08:04hands to a member of the polling board, he will put
00:08:07it in a small box, there will be a small box right there, these
00:08:11slips will be, so to speak. so uh, placed in that box after
00:08:15the end of election day at 7 p.m. they
00:08:19will be counted and also although
00:08:21the device itself will print
00:08:24this total turnout with all other data
00:08:27and this will be an additional check, so once again to
00:08:31repeat, personal document,
00:08:34uh, ID card, personal
00:08:38driver's license, traffic license, these are valid
00:08:41documents. approach to this
00:08:45to the polling station, submission
00:08:48of that document, scanning of that document through
00:08:51uh, biometric
00:08:54identification through fingerprint,
00:08:58uh, of the right index finger, in case, let
00:09:00me mention that, the procedure is precisely known and all members
00:09:04of the polling board will know it, especially that person, if they cannot use the right hand
00:09:07they can use the right thumb, if not then they can use the left index finger, left thumb and so
00:09:11on. We even have situations that we prescribed, if biometric
00:09:15identification cannot be performed, the president and
00:09:17a member of the polling board, in the presence of all, will allow
00:09:21the voter to vote based on the personal document.
00:09:24The next step is uh to take the ballot set
00:09:28ballot paper, so ballot papers are taken,
00:09:31there are four throughout the country except for
00:09:35Brčko District, that option, the Federation, they get
00:09:38three ballot papers because they do not vote for the cantonal assembly.
00:09:43Uh, when taking those ballots,
00:09:47a protective folder is also received, mhm, which
00:09:50serves to preserve the secrecy
00:09:53of the vote, mm, all those four ballots are thus placed in
00:09:56the protective folder and the voter goes to
00:09:58the booth, to the polling booth, there will
00:10:02be a special marker with which
00:10:06to fill in the circles or small circles, as we
00:10:09say, uh in front of political subjects.
00:10:13Uh, those four ballots, so, for example for a
00:10:17voter in the Federation, they vote for a member of the presidency,
00:10:21a Bosniak or a Croat, for the parliamentary assembly.
00:10:25House of Representatives for the Federation Parliament and for the Cantonal
00:10:28Assembly, so four ballots, one is with
00:10:32a majority vote system, that's for members of the presidency, and
00:10:36he only this is obliged, so to speak, we are talking
00:10:40about the voter, right, to fill in that small circle, that circle
00:10:43with that marker, so a very simple action, that's finished,
00:10:47his choice is one, there is a candidate's name in front of it
00:10:51there is a small circle and he circles that small circle for already, do we
00:10:54have here. new looks of ballots, yes I have them here
00:10:58but I think you that as far as I can see on the screen
00:11:01so I will ask the director to show them
00:11:05individually while we talk. Here is an example for a voter, I don't know now which camera
00:11:08is working, this is for a voter from
00:11:12the Federation who can vote for
00:11:16one or uh another member, meaning
00:11:19depending on their choice, it's about
00:11:22voters who can uh... vote either for the Bosniak
00:11:26option or for the Croat option from the Federation, but
00:11:30not both, so only one, only for one
00:11:33candidate, I brought a sample here and so
00:11:36on, so there is a small circle
00:11:39in front of the name, it's a very simple action, nothing
00:11:43much has changed there, so with a marker you
00:11:47fill in this small circle for only one candidate for a member
00:11:50of the presidency, it's the same in the Republic of Srpska, this
00:11:54is what... uh uh,
00:11:57so it's also filled in, what I didn't
00:12:01mention, but I will do it now, is
00:12:04the so-called part A of the ballot, because
00:12:07ballots consist of three parts,
00:12:10this is three parts according to the decision of the Central Election Commission,
00:12:14A, B and C, part A is therefore this first thing we said, part B is
00:12:17instructions for voting, every ballot therefore
00:12:20has
00:12:22part B, mhm, uh, in which is... in
00:12:25which are instructions on how to vote, what I already said and
00:12:29that part goes through the scanner, so A and
00:12:32B part, so to speak, goes through the scanner, yes mhm and
00:12:36so for every level, now there will
00:12:39be A and B parts, now we have it, now we
00:12:42have this system of proportional
00:12:44representation, so which some now find a bit
00:12:48complicated, so to speak, in public
00:12:51questioning whether it's complicated and so on. What is it
00:12:55about? Yes, here we need a little more attention compared to the
00:12:59previous one, so for the members of the presidency, since the change is very small compared
00:13:02to what we had before, so now when we talk
00:13:06about other levels, let's start from the state
00:13:09parliament, the changes are
00:13:12more pronounced, it is about the fact that
00:13:15the ballot contains, so to speak,
00:13:19vertically, the left and right side, on the left side are
00:13:22the names of political subjects. so coalitions
00:13:26of political parties, independent candidates, on the right side of that ballot are
00:13:29empty circles with numbers,
00:13:33now what are those numbers, what is it and so on, I would like
00:13:36to emphasize, so what is necessary for the ballot
00:13:40to be correct and what is not necessary, it is necessary to
00:13:43circle, fill in the circle of only one selected
00:13:47political subject, political party, coalition or independent, that is
00:13:51mandatory, yes, so, when you have decided for a party, you have.
00:13:55factually fulfilled your obligation as a voter,
00:13:59however, now the question arises, since we have the so-called
00:14:02ordinal preferential ballot,
00:14:06one of the three structural elements of the electoral system of Bosnia and
00:14:09Herzegovina, which allows the voter to now
00:14:12express their preferences on that selected list,
00:14:15so, that is only a possibility, not an obligation, I would prefer,
00:14:19so to speak, especially perhaps for
00:14:22older population, it is enough to, therefore... circle
00:14:25the party, you are only one, let's repeat,
00:14:29so that doesn't change in relation, because you
00:14:32actually express loyalty to that political
00:14:35party and you trust it to have arranged the candidates
00:14:39properly, however, if you don't really trust
00:14:42that order of parties, then you
00:14:45can give up to three preferences
00:14:47on that list for that multi-member
00:14:50constituency, how many
00:14:53candidates, so... if people need to know that there are
00:14:57multiple multi-member constituencies, for example, if
00:15:01I vote in Sarajevo for the state parliament, for me it's
00:15:04one list, mhm, or a list, right? The one who votes in the Una-Sana
00:15:08Canton in Bihać for him it's another list, yes or no,
00:15:12I don't know, we said we would use simple words, not complicate
00:15:15for that state level, so there are five multi-member
00:15:18constituencies in the Federation, and three multi-member constituencies in
00:15:22Republika Srpska and all are... are different lists, the principle is
00:15:26as follows, for example that as many as are elected from
00:15:30that, for example from Una-Sana Canton and Livno, that is constituency
00:15:34number one for the state level, it elects three state representatives
00:15:37to the state parliament, it is possible that there are
00:15:41on the list, so plus 5, that is, the law prescribed, 3 + 5, so
00:15:45eight circles, mhm, now when you decide in the first
00:15:48step for a party,
00:15:51it has its three candidates, right, and
00:15:55plus five, as much as the law allowed, there are eight
00:15:57circles, now you can therefore combine,
00:16:01you are not satisfied with how that party you
00:16:04chose arranged the first three, but you want
00:16:07the one at number eight or six or
00:16:10so and now some people
00:16:13problematize it how voters will cope
00:16:16and so on, so that's where the third part of the ballot
00:16:19comes in handy, part C is
00:16:23where the complete names are, so you must
00:16:27names, the easiest way,
00:16:30now I repeat once again, when you choose a party, you have finished
00:16:34the job, right, but if you want to...
00:16:37insist that you influence a certain
00:16:40candidate, then you must look at
00:16:44the candidate list that you receive along with
00:16:47those four ballots, right, that is, with
00:16:51those combinations, with that protective folder, we will
00:16:55go to that, right, that they have large posters on the polling
00:16:59booths themselves, before that, I hope we will all
00:17:02together familiarize ourselves with all those lists, so it is very
00:17:06important where you are.
00:17:08for whom you want to vote, mhm, and when you have
00:17:12finished that marking,
00:17:16you uh put all those four ballots back
00:17:20into the folder, turn them face down, right, you leave, all
00:17:23of that will be explained by the members of the polling board, you go to the scanner
00:17:27and one by one slowly slowly
00:17:29you pass it through the scanner, you pass
00:17:33it through the scanner, right, facing down, so hooked up to those A and
00:17:37B? ballot, that's right, that is, one for each level that has
00:17:40a B side, these are four ballots with another one we raise,
00:17:44so if we are talking about the state parliament, then the state
00:17:48parliament, each ballot therefore has the first and second side,
00:17:51mhm, and part B how to vote, that
00:17:55goes through the scanner, this third part C of the candidate
00:17:59list does not go through the scanner because it is actually a booklet that has multiple
00:18:02pages,
00:18:05uh, I have to, if you allow me, go back... to
00:18:08simplicity,
00:18:11uh, it is mandatory to circle the party, political party,
00:18:14coalition, independent, that is mandatory, because in the
00:18:17other case, if you only circled this choice, only
00:18:20these numbers on side B, then it would not
00:18:23be known to whom these numbers, to whom these candidates
00:18:27belong, right, that would then be an invalid ballot,
00:18:31so, the simplest principle, honestly, since it is
00:18:34a big, let's say step towards closing. to the ballots,
00:18:38because for you to skip this one from
00:18:41eighth place and come to first, you must win
00:18:4520%
00:18:47of valid ballots that the party has already
00:18:50won, meaning out of 100 ballots you must have two, out of
00:18:54100,000, now you must have 20,000, 20%
00:18:57of personal preferences, that is a slightly difficult circumstance
00:19:01for all candidates, the golden rule would be and
00:19:04probably the party will give such when... you circle
00:19:08the party, or the coalition, you have factually
00:19:12finished, so to speak, your obligation, you approach the
00:19:15scanner, the scanner automatically
00:19:18scans that ballot and
00:19:22you have finished the job, you return that folder, that
00:19:25that
00:19:28uh protective folder, that C part of the ballot and
00:19:32you leave the polling station, I can say
00:19:35that that scanner uh... will work in
00:19:39off mode, so offline
00:19:42mode, it will not be connected to the internet, from 7
00:19:45to 19 hours, at the end
00:19:47of its work at the polling station, when the
00:19:51polling station is closed, the scanner will be connected,
00:19:55first it will print a slip, this one on which will be
00:19:58all results by parties, candidates and all statistics, that slip
00:20:02will be signed by members of the polling board, then the
00:20:05scanner will be turned on, those results will be sent
00:20:09uh that's that electronic transmission
00:20:12of results sent to the main counting center, the main
00:20:15server, right, in Sarajevo
00:20:18so I know it's a somewhat trivial question but it's still
00:20:21being asked, that scanner cannot read immediately on the spot if the voter
00:20:25made a mistake or anything similar, we will get
00:20:28its results, so to speak, which will be used as preliminary,
00:20:32about an hour and a half after the closing of the polling stations, that's that, then
00:20:36after that it starts. That's right, the scanner actually creates an image,
00:20:40you know how the voter marked it, that's how it will be, right, so
00:20:43even if some ballots are invalid, for example if the
00:20:47voter marked two. subjects and so on,
00:20:51that would certainly be an invalid ballot, but generally the scanner records
00:20:55everything and nothing can be changed anymore,
00:20:58those results are sent and these are preliminary results with
00:21:02which public opera,
00:21:05after that there is immediately a procedure of manual counting,
00:21:09the legislator prescribed that, now it is another procedure, so let's go back
00:21:13to this perhaps if we were not clear enough,
00:21:17it is enough to say that a voter must...
00:21:20have valid personal documents, that they must perform
00:21:23authentication, that they vote with four
00:21:26ballot papers, let me mention that in Republika Srpska also a member
00:21:30of the presidency, right, also the parliamentary assembly of Bosnia and
00:21:33Herzegovina, but in addition to that, also the National Assembly of Republika Srpska and
00:21:37the president and vice-presidents of the Federation, so a voter in
00:21:40Republika Srpska has two ballots which
00:21:44are uh whose content is a majority
00:21:47vote, meaning for a member of the president.
00:21:51and for the president and vice-president of the Federation,
00:21:53a completely simple ballot, so just fill in the circle, that's
00:21:57all, you don't have any further activities there, and for
00:22:00this system of proportional representation, if you
00:22:04circle a party, you have also finished the job, but if
00:22:07you want intervention, then there is this second step where you need to
00:22:11know the structure of the names of the candidates you want
00:22:15to eventually prefer, mhm,
00:22:18m, I believe that...
00:22:20"many are still convinced that they will need more help than before,
00:22:24the help of one person is allowed, let's clarify whether
00:22:27anything has changed there compared to previous
00:22:30rules? In principle, so nothing, it's the help
00:22:33of another person, meaning only one person can help
00:22:37one, this other person, there cannot
00:22:40be multiple help, right, it will also be recorded in all
00:22:44our forms, on uh
00:22:47printers, on on printouts.
00:22:50must be signed, so that person with their personal
00:22:54data, this voter who is, who
00:22:57helped, that person who helped the voter, nothing
00:23:00has changed there, some documentation is needed,
00:23:04there is thus one one
00:23:07procedure uh, completely
00:23:10prescribed, usual also for some other
00:23:13categories, I won't elaborate on them too much, these
00:23:16are voting through a mobile team where that one documentation is needed
00:23:20for a sick person to whom the
00:23:24mobile team comes to the spot and so on, but these
00:23:28four steps are very important, so let's remember
00:23:30that, uh, look, in the next
00:23:34period we expect that political parties and media,
00:23:38well, like you, will get involved, so that this is brought closer
00:23:41to every, every uh
00:23:44voter,
00:23:47I repeat, this is a very simple procedure. a very
00:23:50simple procedure, uh, except for this
00:23:54part that might be a bit complicated for someone,
00:23:58because it's new, but if we explain it intensively
00:24:01to voters for the next two months, I think
00:24:04it won't be that complicated in the end,
00:24:07especially since it's not an obligation for you to
00:24:11use preferences, you vote for individual candidates, for the state
00:24:14parliament, for the federal parliament, for cantonal assemblies, that's right,
00:24:18because if I choose a party. you know, why would I now
00:24:22doubt the leadership of that party that carried out
00:24:26the ranking, why I think that's how I would like someone to enter
00:24:29and here you will
00:24:32certainly see appearances, but that is already in the political sphere, that is not
00:24:36this educational part, so to speak, this
00:24:40much will those on the candidate list be engaged,
00:24:43how much will they be engaged if, for example, they are in eighth place
00:24:47mhm compared to the one who is in first place and so on. Will they even
00:24:51be engaged and so on, here questions
00:24:54arise, political questions of political nature, political
00:24:57activities of political parties, I would not go deeper into
00:25:01that, the principle is that if a voter circles a party,
00:25:05that is a valid ballot, he is not obliged to take this second
00:25:09step, but if he wants to, the legislator has given him that option too.
00:25:12option, but only one party, so that once again never enough
00:25:15votes, only one party, only one, only one party, so a vote for
00:25:19two parties automatically means that the ballot is void. This
00:25:23is the same as it has been until now, just as it has been until now, if you vote for two
00:25:26members of the presidency or two two
00:25:30individual candidates, for example, on the list for the president and vice-president of the RS
00:25:34, that ballot will also be discarded. We have only
00:25:37a few more minutes left of the conversation, we have to finish quickly so that
00:25:41we can mention a few more important
00:25:44pieces of information. Namely, for all this to work as it should, you need
00:25:48a serious number of operators across Bosnia and
00:25:51Herzegovina. So, people who will undergo special training to
00:25:55help at the polling station, the polling committee,
00:25:58everyone who will vote using new technologies.
00:26:02"Close to 4000 operators are needed throughout Bosnia and
00:26:06Herzegovina , 3,997 will work for a financial
00:26:10compensation which is not bad
00:26:12to somehow apply for
00:26:16our announced tender. Yes, so what you need to know 310 convertible marks. So, an appeal to all of them
00:26:20besides the three to five members of the polling committee who are
00:26:23appointed members of the election administration bodies, we will also have
00:26:27this technical support, so at each polling station there will be one
00:26:30operator who will be in charge, who will arrive at 6 AM
00:26:34together with the members of the polling committees to help install the devices,
00:26:38check their functionality, print out the zero copy to
00:26:41see that everything is zero and so on. So, these are
00:26:44technical personnel. In addition to that, we will also have
00:26:48technicians, uh, field technicians, uh,
00:26:51who will provide support, who will also be like a mobile
00:26:55team, so to speak, who will be organized by the company and will be
00:26:58responsible for intervention at each polling
00:27:02place if there is jamming of ballots, some
00:27:06delays and so on and so forth. Mhm, let's also
00:27:09touch upon the campaign, so the other side
00:27:12of the story. Transparency International announced yesterday
00:27:16that about 1,200 cases of potential misuse
00:27:19of public resources were recorded, and that such cases were reported
00:27:22to the Central Election Commission, many of them. However,
00:27:26the CEC has punished only
00:27:29a few of them. How do you respond to them? Well,
00:27:33thank you for that question. You see, I would like to hear that Transparency
00:27:37has in the past or now spoken out about a very
00:27:41important thing, that is how is it
00:27:44that uh the law provides for
00:27:47one, one, one, we have an absurd norm in Article 2.11 paragraph
00:27:513, the last sentence, that our rulebook on systematization and
00:27:55internal organization the Council of Ministers gives
00:27:58its consent, thereby practically annulling the independent
00:28:02position of the Central Election Commission. The Council of Ministers, without
00:28:06any explanation, did not give its consent to our rulebook on
00:28:09internal organization. Firstly, it was prepared for a long time, which would
00:28:13enable a sufficient number of engaged people, lawyers
00:28:17and others who would work on these cases. Let me tell you, so
00:28:20that famous Article 7.2 has three paragraphs.
00:28:23In the second paragraph, there are eight sub-
00:28:27points, points, right? Paragraph 2 has eight points where
00:28:30situations of misuse of public funds and resources are extensively
00:28:34explained. So you would have to have
00:28:37teams of investigators, inspectors who would, for example,
00:28:41deal with the misuse of public funds in terms of using
00:28:45helicopters, cars and so on, the vehicle fleet
00:28:48or, I don't know, people who work here
00:28:52on the so-called official campaign.
00:28:55So, the short answer is, uh, as many
00:28:58people as we have at our disposal because we were given, you know, the High
00:29:02Representative gave us new tasks, new norms,
00:29:05new obligations, but the organization and systematization
00:29:09remained from 20 years ago. Yes, but they say you are more tolerant than in
00:29:13previous ones. No, we simply cannot keep up. If you have 200 cases, you understand
00:29:16, currently, and every day another 10 come in and so on,
00:29:20and you have a limited number of, say, five lawyers, you simply
00:29:23cannot keep up with that. So, with all due respect and
00:29:27appreciation, and probably
00:29:30199% of those from Transparency are
00:29:32right when they criticize this, but simply one should
00:29:36face reality because for you to execute, you must fulfill,
00:29:40so to speak, what I call in English LBP, so you have
00:29:44law, you have the law, you have a budget, you have money, as the High
00:29:47Representative provided us, but the third thing, people, you
00:29:51don't have, and you are simply faced with what
00:29:54you have. Mhm, and the last question for the end, just in a few
00:29:57sentences and because of numerous readers who sent us... let's
00:30:01try to explain this. You say
00:30:03you don't have people, we are talking about people, again, voters from the
00:30:07diaspora. You yourselves said that you were disappointed with
00:30:10the turnout. Even 20,000 fewer citizens will
00:30:13vote in these elections compared to the general elections in 2022
00:30:17from the diaspora. Certain groups from the diaspora even wrote
00:30:21to the European Union to try to address the problem in some way
00:30:24and solve it. Very briefly, how do you explain what
00:30:28happened? This is a conflict
00:30:30of multiple factors, so to speak, a convergence of multiple
00:30:34factors. One of those factors is that we introduced strict
00:30:38procedures, which are indeed bureaucratic and so
00:30:41on, but we had to do it and the law gave us
00:30:44the authority for diaspora registration because we had
00:30:48all sorts of things, we had massive, massive
00:30:53gas station addresses, public institutions and so
00:30:56on and so forth, so we were in those...
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