| Deputy premier says electoral body broke law by changing rules |
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| Sunday, 07 February 2010 19:10 |
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The Central Electoral Commission broke the law on the presidential election when it issued an instruction this morning that two members of a polling-station commission are enough to conduct voting at home, First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov, the head of presidential candidate Yuliya Tymoshenko's election headquarters, has said.
"The Central Electoral Commission is not entitled to amend the law, and the adoption of such a decision at 0800, when the election had started, is a violation of all the existing and non-existent norms," he said. He added that by changing the home-voting procedure the Central Electoral Commission had "given the greenlight to massive fraud".
Turchynov also said that Tymoshenko's representatives are being prevented from overseeing the ballot as members of electoral commissions at several polling stations in the east of Ukraine, the UNIAN news agency reported earlier. "I am talking about polling stations in Donetsk Region and Crimea," he was quoted as saying. |