Probably, most people already feel the election approaching. Candidates for People's Deputy, representatives of party branches, and headquarters employees are fighting persistently, and sometimes even aggressively. Civil servants also don't delay preparations for the election day. Questions of the representatives of the Network OPORA were answered by the Head of the Administration Department for the State Registrar of Voters of Chernihiv Oblast State Administration — Vasyl Bilookyi....

On 24 September 2012, the journalist of Tysa-1 Zakarpattia OSTRC (of the editorial office of programme in minority languages, the programme Romano Dzhivipen) and public activist Myroslav Horvat met with the Head of Zakarpattia State Administration Oleksandr Ledyda.

Last week, one of the regular and important stages of this electoral cycle — the formation of precinct election commissions — has started. Representatives of the Civil Network OPORA in Kharkiv Oblast have held monitoring of the procedure of the draw, and also heard the views of various participants of the electoral process on such method of determination of the composition of a PEC.

Many candidates in the AR Crimea faced the problem of twins. Representatives of several parties were refused in the formation of polling stations in Kerch.  At the meeting before the draw, it turned out that the same candidates submitted applications to form district commissions. Over a hundred twins appeared.

Before the start of the election, I often used to think of Otto von Bismarck with his imperishable “People never lie so much as after fishing, during a war or before an election.” A nice lead for a simple trick of the election process — participation in the campaign of dummy parties and candidates, who act as support to the main contenders for a deputy seat. So an important leverage on the election outcome will be, of course, not the members of election commissions at the district and preci...

Even those who don't know how to use the World Wide Web know that with the help of the internet, one can win an election, like Barack Obama did.  Whether Prykarpattia politicians have followed Obama in the fight for voters, an e-marketing specialist, Head of the Union of Young Political Scientists of Ukraine Andrii Famuha helped OPORA to explore.

In Kharkiv Oblast, the Party of Regions was the first one to start preparing for the parliamentary election. Right according to the political science textbook — no later than a year before.  Running of the campaign component on the electorate has been far-sightedly launched early this year when acting people's deputies of the Party of Regions — potential FPP candidates Valerii Pysarenko, Vitalii Khomutynnik, and Iryna Berezhna — became frequent visitors in Kharkiv and started appearing ...

There are 14 election districts in Kharkiv oblast, 7 of which are in Kharkiv city. 120 candidates were registered in Kharkiv oblast, but 3 of them withdrew their candidatures as of 16 September.