On 8 July 2014 at 11:30am in the Chasopys Creative Space (3 L. Tolstoho St., Kyiv) a complex method for qualitative assessment of draft laws will be presented by Civil Network OPORA, its developer. This method may become a powerful instrument for lawmakers and their assistants during preparation of draft laws, as well as for expert groups and political scientists who assess them and compare their quality. 

On 25 May 2014, Mayoral elections were held in Chernivtsi. Candidate from local organization of AUU Batkivshchyna Oleksii Kaspruk has won with 53.97% of votes. On June 6, Civil Network OPORA sent an inquiry to the Chernivtsi City Territorial Election Commission requesting to provide copies of financial reports on the use of electoral funds by candidates. On June 13, OPORA received an access to financial reports of candidates for Chernivtsi city mayor.

On 13 June, the third meeting of Chernivtsi City Territorial Election Commission (CTEC) was held, during which the approval of Oleksandr Madei as the Member of Chernivtsi City Council was considered one more time. In result of the meeting, the CTEC recognized Mr. Madei was elected and registered him as the councilor in correspondence with the Law on Local Elections.

On 14 and 15 June, OPORA's activists together with political correspondents, journalists, media managers and experts of the election law discussed the course and results of 2014 election campaign, challenges of the last year and current ones, as well as possible solutions for efficient activities of the public and community.

On June 14, Chercasy District Administrative Court has satisfied the appeal of Cherkasy local organization of the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and repealed the resolution of Cherkasy City Election Commission as of 6/10/2014 "On determination of the results of elections to Cherkasy City Council in multi-mandate election district".

New territorial election commission has determined the final results of local elections. Today, 28 elected councilors and rating of parties whose candidates were elected by party lists are already known. However, re-count continues in two single-mandate majoritarian election districts.

In this article, we will consider a simple but informative method of studying the general structure of multidimensional data, searching for abnormal numbers and description of general trends. This method uses dispersion diagrams (correlation diagrams). This method depicts every point of researched sample, thus, it's quite demonstrative. One can easily see conglomeration of points (clouds, clusters), which have similar parameters. We applied this method to research the results of voting ...

To conduct the research, we used the data from the Central Election Commission's website (section "election results"). We also used the programming language R for analytical processing. To create tables of summarized values by types of polling stations, we used the PLYR package. Graphics were created with the help of basic functions of the R.