Olha Kadar, the Head of the DEC #71 in Khust, on November 5, 2012, at about 14.00, has left for Kyiv in order to transfer district vote count protocols to the CEC
OPORA observers noticed in this incidence the violation of the Article 95 (9) of the Law on Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine. According to the Law, the protocols shall be transported by the Head and Deputy Head of the DEC together with two party members which have got the majority of votes.
Thus, according to the voting results, Mahdalyna Skomarovska, a member of the DEC by the quota of the Yuliia Tymoshenko Block, was supposed to participate in the transportation of ballots. However, according to Ms. Skomarovska, she wasn't allowed to get into the car, and was said that there is not free place.
Representatives of opposition parties in the DEC have drawn up protocols transportation violation statement.
Besides that, representatives of the opposition have doubts about the legitimacy of the Deputy Head of the DEC in Khust. It was caused by the fact that the Head of the DEC Olha Kadar informed all the present on November 4 that the CEC has substituted by its resolution 5 members of the DEC in Khust by new ones, including the Deputy head of the DEC. However, neither members of the DEC, nor observers could see this resolution with a stamp of the CEC. Thus, they doubt that members of the DEC were legally substituted, and the new Deputy Head of the DEC, which left for Kyiv with the protocols, is a legitimate person.
Observers have also noticed that there were no protocols with the voting results published in the premises of the DEC.
OPORA has earlier informed that the DEC #71 has already declared voting at a polling station void, and the margin between the first and the second places has become less. The first place was taken by a candidate from the United Center Pavlo Baloha, and the second – a candidate from the Party of Regions Stepan Derkach.
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