In district No.1 at the PEC No.011080, when the recount of ballots started, half of those in favour of the Party of Regions were invalidated. For the party in power, there were 282 votes in the protocol, and during the recount 128 ballots were invalidated.
Some of them were stamped incorrectly, and on the others, three candidates were marked.
Representatives of the Party of Regions who were in the commission started feeling nervous and called for support. The observer of the Krym (Crimea) TV Company began to help the commission in recount, which is a violation of the Law On Election of People's Deputies of Ukraine.
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