PRISTINA - Kosovo voted on Sunday in its first elections since declaring independence in 2008, with many voters angered to find themselves still among Europe's poorest citizens.
Police reported theats to minority Serb voters in the north of the overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian territory when shots were fired into an empty building.
The electoral commission put turnout across the territory at over 11 percent shortly before midday, and there were no other reports of violence.
In Pristina, handfuls of people lined up outside polling stations throughout the city in clear weather.
Goran Zdravkovic, a Serb member of the electoral commission, told reporters that the 40,000 Serbs in North Kosovo were maintaining a total boycott of the vote with not a single ballot cast in the five hours of voting before noon (1100 GMT).
However, Serbs in enclaves in central Kosovo, accounting for two-thirds of the 120,000 Serb population, were reported to be turning out in large numbers.
Opinion polls ahead of the vote showed support for Prime Minister Hashim Thaci's PDK party at 30 percent, just two percent ahead of its main rival the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), led by Pristina mayor Isa Mustafa.