Last night, at district election commission 197, which is in Kaniv of Cherkasy Oblast, Volodymyr Matiusha (a self-nominated candidate, member of the Party of Pensioners of Ukraine) while at the DEC took one of the protocols of the DEC from the table and wanted to eat it. Fortunately, those present managed to take the protocol back already crumpled.
Let us remind that, as we have reported earlier, due to the protocols being corrected with correction fluid and inaccurate submission of voting results to the system by the district commission, now all the protocols are checked at the presence of people's deputies, observers, authorised persons, and journalists.
Volodymyr Matiusha, according to voting results on the CEC website, isn't leading but according to unconfirmed information, he supports Bohdan Hubskyi (self-nominated candidate). Right now, a desperate struggle for votes is going on before Bohdan Hubskyi and Leonid Datsenko (the political party All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland).
In addition, according to the OPORA observer, provocations are constantly happening at the DEC — for example, a person unknown has just come in, introduced himself as a journalist, and started behaving aggressively, loudly, and actively.
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Civic monitoring conducted by OPORA - is a type of network activity, aimed at impartial assessment of the preparation and conduct of elections, as well as preventing violations through comprehensive civic action. Professional monitoring at all stages of the election process indirectly influences the quality of the campaign. The public opinion, both foreign and domestic is formed through gathering and spreading of information among the target audience.
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In 2012, during Parliamentary elections in Ukraine OPORA is carrying out a large-scale campaign of long- and short term observation, organizing a statistical vote-count by the results of voting with the proportional component of the electoral system on a basis of representative selection, will provide 100% coverage of polling stations by observers in separate single-mandate majoritarian districts. OPORA observers will work in all 225 electoral districts, and 3,500 activists will join them on the voting day. Organization will use the latest means of spreading information on observation results, including infographics and interactive maps.