The voting in single-mandate district was considered void at a polling station #140232, located in the village of Novotroitske (Dobropillia raion). Commission members had put the stamp "Removed" against a name of candidate who didn't removed his candidacy. Observers of a joint monitoring campaign of the Donetsk Office of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine and Civic Network OPORA reported about this violation.
"Commission members have mistakenly removed a majoritarian candidate Viktor Tryfonov insted of Ruslan Terebushkin, who has removed his candidacy shortly before the elections. We wrote a complaint on actions of the Commission, re-counted ballot papers, and voided the single-mandate district voting at this polling station," – informed the DEC #50.
However, party list voting (in the single nationwide election district) at polling station #140232 was considered valid.
Contacts for the press:
Oleksandr Ivanov
Press-secretary of the joint monitoring campaign conducted by the
Donetsk Office of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine and the Civil Network OPORA in Donetsk oblast
About civic observation during the elections:
Civic monitoring conducted by OPORA and AUNGO Committee of Voters of Ukraine in Donetsk - is a type of network activity, aimed at impartial assessment of the preparation and conduct of elections, as well as preventing electoral violations through comprehensive civic action.
Starting from September 2014, Civil Network OPORA conducts a large-scale observation of special parliamentary elections in Ukraine. The organization will attract 213 long-term observers in every region of Ukraine to monitor the campaign from its official start to announcement of the final election results. On the Election Day on May 26, more than 2,000 activists will join them to conduct statistically-based parallel vote tabulation.
In Donetsk oblast the civic observation of the Parliamentary election process is conducted by the oblast office of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine.