Many cases of illegal election advertising were revealed today at bus stations, trees, information desks. OPORA’s observer in a district #197 found advertising posters and even billboards in different areas around the district.

OPORA activists continue to observe the conduct of voting process at repeated parliamentary elections. As of 1 pm the most typical violations revealed at PECs are unauthorized people staying at polling stations and disclosure of secret voting. Unauthorized people staying at polling stations that goes in contradiction to the current election legislation, are observed at 21% of the stations in a district #94. The violation was also revealed at 9% of the polling stations in a district #194 and...

Observer of the OPORA has reported that other observers make lists of people who have voted in precinct #710177 (district #197) located in Bohuslavets village, Zolononinskyi raion. People, who list names of the voters don't ask names, put them down – they are obviously local residents, because it seems that they know voters by name. To the question of OPORA observer they answered that they write down names "for no special reason".

As Civil Network OPORA have already informed, two buses were noticed in Kuripchyne village (Pervomaisk raion), with passengers who were trying to vote at the polling station #480569. However, the Mykolaiv oblast Department of MIA of Ukraine in Mykolaiv oblast do not confirm such fact.

In Hlevakha town (Vasylkiv raion, Kyiv oblast), a large number of young people, who are the students of Vocational-Technical School in Irpin city, are present in the PEC #320288. Due to their places of registration, these citizens don't have the right to vote either in this polling station, or in the whole district #94.

 At some of the polling stations observers found minor problems with ballots storing. At 2% of stations in the district #223 ballots were not stored at safes (metal boxes) before the preparatory meetings. In the districts #94 and 194 such problems were observed at 1% of polling stations where OPORA’s observers were deployed. A lack of ballot papers was also revealed at polling stations in several election districts. The biggest number of such cases was found in the district #94 – at 4% of sta...

In Hlevakha town (Vasylkiv raion, Kyiv oblast), at 12:40pm, Head of the PEC #320288 Diana Aleksandrova had initiated the removal of a journalist of the Samostiina Ukraina magazine issued by Anatolii Chernysh. The reason became his attempt to get information about voter's registration, to which Head of the PEC took a sudden dislike.

In Velyka Vilshanka village, Vasylkiv raion, Kyiv oblast, OPORA observers have reported that people were transported in an organized manner to the PEC #320281 by a white bus with registration number АІ 3871 АО. According to the explanation provided by the Head of Village Council Haidaienko Svitlana Vasylivna, the transportation is organized by the Village Council.