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Brezice - 20 December 2015
1. Various of deserted polling station interior
2. Tilt down of voting instructions displayed in polling station
3. Various of voter registering
4. SOUNDBITE (Slovenian) Franc Lapuh, head of local electoral commission:
"We are at the polling station No.3, at the elementary school 'Brezice'. The polling station is open from 7am till 7.00pm (06:00 to 18:00 GMT), now it is 10 am (09:00 GMT), turn out is very low, below 25 percent, it is noticeable that most of the voters up to now are of the older generation, I assume that the younger generation will come later today. After all the referendum is significant for them."
5. Various of elderly man voting
STORYLINE:
Slovenia's citizens on Sunday began voting in a referendum on whether to allow same sex-marriage for the first time in any of the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Sunday's vote was forced by conservative groups, backed by the Catholic Church, who seek to overturn a bill that defines marriage as a union between two consenting adults.
Parliament passed the marriage equality amendment in March, but the "Children are At Stake" group has collected 40,000 signatures to challenge the changes before any gay couples were able to marry.
At least 20 percent of Slovenia's 1.7 million voters must reject the bill for it to be overturned.
Recent opinion polls suggest voters remain sharply divided over the issue.
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