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Around 3.4 million voters in Bosnia are choosing the three members of the country's multi-ethnic presidency, lawmakers for the national Parliament, and heads of institutions for the country's two entities: the Muslim-majority Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Republika Srpska, which is dominated by ethnic Serbs.\u00a0 Bosnia has a complex web of governing institutions that were created by a US-brokered peace agreement in 1995 in an effort to manage the ethnic divisions between Muslim Bosniaks, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats that gave rise to the war. \n Is Bosnia's youth free from the scars of its war?\n \n \n \n \n To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement.\n \n\n One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site.\n \n \n\n\n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n Cover image: Selma and Danilo are both from Bosnia and Herzegovina, yet ethnic differences mean they have a different version of their country's past. \u00a9 ENTR \n \n \n \n \n\n On Sunday morning, Associated Press journalists reported seeing multiple polling places where voting could not begin on time due to difficulties with new digital voting technology, a measure introduced to address earlier concerns over vote tampering.\u00a0 Taking center stage in the contest is a staunchly pro-Russian politician who, despite not appearing on the ballot, has dominated the campaign and inflamed divisions that have sparked fears of renewed instability.\u00a0 Milorad Dodik, the separatist and nationalist former president of the Serb-majority Republika Srpska, has been banned from holding public office after being convicted of defying decisions by the international envoy overseeing the 1995 peace agreement.\u00a0 Read moreBosnia calls vote to replace banned leader of Serb statelet Milorad Dodik Just back from a trip to Moscow where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dodik's party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, is likely to win the election in Republika Srpska.\u00a0 At his party's final election rally Friday night in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska's administrative capital, Dodik told supporters that Bosnia \u201cis dead\". \"It is an impossible country. It doesn\u2019t make any sense,\u201d Dodik said at the rally, which was also attended by the Russian ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Igor Khalabukov. Dragan Bursac, an analyst, said despite Dodik not appearing on the ballot for the first time in nearly 30 years, he \u201cis still in command. He is everywhere.\" \u201cHe is all over the media, not only in the entity of Republika Srpska, but in all of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is obvious that these measures to ban him from political life are not working, and he is using them,\u201d Bursac said. While Bosnia has been peaceful in recent years, its politicians have kept alive the divisions between the country's Bosniaks, who are mainly Muslim, and its Serbs\u00a0and Croats. Bosnian Serb leaders like Dodik have pushed for the separation of their entity from the rest of Bosnia, which has led to concerns among Western countries that tensions could once again spill over. \n Italian prosecutors investigate alleged \u2018sniper tourism\u2019 in 1990s Bosnia war\n \n \n \n \n To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement.\n \n\n One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site.\n \n \n\n\n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n Cover image: \u00a9 France 24 \n04:20 \n \n \n \n \n\n One of the poorest countries in Europe, Bosnia is still struggling to recover decades after the war that started in 1992 after Bosnia declared independence from the Serb-led former Yugoslavia and ethnic Serbs took up arms to carve out their own state and join Serbia.\u00a0 The conflict killed more than 100,000 people and displaced millions. Bosnia is formally seeking to join the European Union, but progress toward membership has been stalled despite EU efforts to encourage Bosnia's divided leaders to work together for reform. Ahead of Election Day, Durak Miler, a resident of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, said governing politicians \u201cjust poison people when they talk\u201d. \u201cWe should change the old faces,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have been governing for 35 years ... I think whoever comes next will work better for retired people and the poor.\u201d The country's wartime wounds were recently revived by a public homage in Serbia and among Bosnian Serbs to the wartime army commander Ratko Mladic, who died in late August while serving a life sentence for genocide and other war crimes.\u00a0 Read moreFormer Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic convicted of genocide dies \n \n To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement.\n \n\n One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site.\n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n01:28 \n \n \n \n \n Bosnian Serbs view Mladic as a hero despite his conviction by a UN court over the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995, and other atrocities.\u00a0 Key Bosnian Serb officials attended the funeral service for Mladic in Belgrade that sparked harsh EU criticism and angered Bosniak politicians. Authorities are for the first time using electronic identification of voters and scanning of ballots to prevent irregularities or organized voter manipulation, which have cast doubt on the fairness of previous elections.\u00a0 Salko Bijavica, from the southern town of Mostar, said he is glad that \u201cevery vote will be counted\u201d, and that the change will give \u201chope to people that elections will be fair\u201d. Most of Bosnia's 75 political parties running in the election are organized along ethnic lines in the country's Serb-controlled Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The two entities are bound together by the central presidency and Parliament.\u00a0 The Bosniak nationalist Party of Democratic Action has focused its campaign on efforts to keep Bosnia united against Serb separatism. Bosnian Croats, too, largely support their ethnic parties, including the Bosnian branch of Croatia's ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union.\u00a0 Polls will close at 7pm local time. 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