| Irregularities during runoff not to affect election result - watchdog |
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| Monday, 08 February 2010 16:08 |
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Numerous violations of electoral law were observed during the presidential runoff, but they cannot affect the final outcome, the Committee of Voters of Ukraine has said, the 5 Kanal TV channel reported today.
Large-scale transportation of voters to polling stations was observed in eastern Ukraine, while some citizens in the west are said to have voted using the internal passports of people currently abroad. However, the CVU said that these violations were not wide-spread. The channel showed the head of the CVU, Oleksandr Chernenko, saying: “On the whole, with all the irregularities and all the issues that we are talking about, their level and scale, their importance and impact on the outcome, we do not see that they could have distorted or even changed the poll result. Because we did not see any vote-rigging, rewriting of vote-count reports, possible large-scale ballot stuffing. However, the organization of the electoral process was far from perfect.”
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