Local Elections 2020 – How’s Voting Day Going?



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Today, October 25, local elections are held in Ukraine. Observers and the police record violations in polling stations. Among the violations – problems with the provision of district electoral commissions, “carousel”. Voters also complain about the queues and Zelensky’s poll.

All details about how the election day is going, information about problems and violations can be found on RBC-Ukraine.

You have to queue to vote in local elections.

In Kiev, queues formed at the polling stations. People started gathering even before the inauguration.

Queues at sites "carousel" and the Zelensky poll: how are local elections going in Ukraine?

Queue at a polling station in Kiev (facebook.com/klimetin)

In Odessa, observers report large crowds near polling stations. Near the site at school # 121, the queue is made up primarily of students from the Law Academy. The university residence is nearby.

Queues at sites "carousel" and the Zelensky poll: how are local elections going in Ukraine?In Odessa, people lined up at polling stations (Dumskaya)

In Nikolaev, at school No. 42, several polling stations operate at once, for which several entrances to the building are provided. Queues formed in front of the door of each of the enclosures.

Queues at sites "carousel" and the Zelensky poll: how are local elections going in Ukraine?In Nikolaev, people queue for the grounds (Novosti N)

People are not allowed into the facilities so as not to create a crowd and not to violate the quarantine in relation to the coronavirus pandemic.

Police receive complaints about Zelensky’s “survey”

The statements were presented to the police in the Volyn region and in Kiev. Also, at Podol in Kiev, unidentified people turned the ballot boxes and scattered the sheets.

In Cherkassy, ​​members of District Electoral Commission No. 711040 independently conducted a poll in Ukraine of President Volodymyr Zelensky. At the same time, the survey forms were distributed directly to the voting station.

Electoral “carousels”

The police registered a voter bribery scheme in the elections in the Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk and Odessa regions. This scheme is called a “carousel”.

The essence of the “carousel” is to deliver to the voter before entering the voting table a complete voting ballot, which the voter must place in the ballot box, take out a new and clean ballot and exchange it in the organizer of the “carousel” for money. or other material values.

They stopped 2 buses with people traveling from the Dnepropetrovsk region to Kiev. Also in the Odessa region, a Russian citizen was arrested, suspected of a “carousel” of voters in the Odessa region. According to the police, the participants in the crime received 400 hryvnia.

Voting without a booth in local elections

There are no voting booths in the polling stations of Zhytomyr and the region. Voters vote either in improvised booths made by members of the PEC with improvised means, or on the windowsill, on benches or tables, violating the secrecy of the vote, reports the OPORA Civil Network.

Queues at sites "carousel" and the Zelensky poll: how are local elections going in Ukraine?In the Zhytomyr region, voters vote without booths (Opora)

In particular, in Zhytomyr, at polling station No. 181341, instead of a voting booth, there was a chair covered with cloth. Additionally, at polling station No. 181354, voters vote at adjoining tables.

In some PEC, instead of booths, there are constructions of sports equipment. In Korosten, polling station No. 181276, the ballot is filled on the windowsill and on the benches with other people.

Previously, the CEC called for elections of deputies to regional, district and village councils, as well as heads of municipalities, villages and cities, one of the most difficult in the history of Ukraine. Complicating the process is also the fact that the elections are being held in a pandemic.

The Voters Committee of Ukraine reported new violations in local elections.

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