Today, on 28 October, in the DEC No.129, 7 precinct election commissions received extra ballots.
As Deputy Head of the DEC No.129 Anatolii Kravchenko explained, the situation occurred due to the fact that according to the revised voter lists, the number of ballots received on 24 October didn't equal to the number of voters at these stations — it was smaller. That is why the DEC No.129 forwarded revised information to the CEC, Ukraine Printing and Publishing printed missing ballots, and in the morning, they were delivered by special delivery to the DEC. Information on the receipt of missing ballots was immediately sent to the PEC, and at 10.30am, the last PEC received “its” ballots.
Indeed, PEC No.480878 received 72 ballots for multi-member and single-member electoral districts each, PEC No.480890 — 188 (for multi-member) and 184 (for single-member) ballots, No.480893 — 168 for voting in multi-member and single-member electoral districts each, No.480907 — 48 ballots for voting in multi-member and single-member electoral districts each, No.480911 — 20 (for multi-member) and 24 (for single-member), No.480917 — 68 (for multi-member) and 72 (for single-member), and PEC No.480935 — 52 ballots for voting in multi-member electoral district.
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