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Almost No Violence Recorded in Round Three

Committee of Voters of Ukraine - Mostly Minor Abnormalities
[An update on the voting situation added onto the CVU bit - Interfax is reporting that the police have recorded NO VIOLENT INCIDENTS by 6pm on voting day! Praise God. This is very good news so long as it doesn't indicate a lot of incidents are just getting shoved under the rug.]

The Committee of Voters of Ukraine, a non-government organization that has been monitoring the elections here has started putting out press releases. You can find its most recent releases here. Many of the violations recorded in the last round of the election were caught by the CVU. In addition to acting as a non-government organization, the CVU is registered as a news organization under the name "Tochka Zoru" (Point of View)

The two press releases posted on the site when I looked describe the following violations: fire set outside a CVU person's home and threats made against his life early this morning, no Yushchenko committee members in Donetsk polling stations, other Yushchenko members not registered, Tochka Zoru journalists not allowed into a couple Dnipropetrovsk polling stations because they are not on the registration log (registration ahead of time on the log was possible but not necessary in the last round, I don't believe this rule has changed), and so on. Most of the stuff seems pretty minor, and there are no items underlined as severe violations.

Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 04:39PM by Registered CommenterDan McMinn in | CommentsPost a Comment

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