At the district election commission 194, which is in Cherkasy, the system administrator who enters voting results of each PEC into the Enterprise Information System „Election of People's Deputies of Ukraine“ of the Unified Enterprise Information System “Election”, where the CEC obtains data from, has just disappeared. Let us remind that today DEC 194 has already received all the protocols from precinct commissions but since only the administrator has the keys to this system no one else can enter the results so far, which delays the work.

In addition, Viktor Paramonov (candidate of the Party of Regions) and Valentyna Zhukovska (a self-nominated candidate) filed a claim to the court on omission of the DEC, and Mykola Bulatetskyi (the political party All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland) appealed to the Prosecutor's Office to solve this situation.

For comment, please contact:
Serhii Varych
Election Programmes Coordinator of the Civil Network OPORA
in Cherkasy Oblast
063 62 86 780

Reference

Civic monitoring conducted by OPORA - is a type of network activity, aimed at impartial assessment of the preparation and conduct of elections, as well as preventing violations through comprehensive civic action. Professional monitoring at all stages of the election process indirectly influences the quality of the campaign. The public opinion, both foreign and domestic is formed through gathering and spreading of information among the target audience.  
From a strategic perspective public monitoring of elections focuses upon improving the system and certain procedures.  
In 2012, during Parliamentary elections in Ukraine OPORA is carrying out a large-scale campaign of long- and short term observation, organizing a statistical vote-count by the results of voting with the proportional component of the electoral system on a basis of representative selection, will provide 100% coverage of polling stations by observers in separate single-mandate majoritarian districts. OPORA observers will work in all 225 electoral districts, and 3,500 activists will join them on the voting day. Organization will use the latest means of spreading information on observation results, including infographics and interactive maps.