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.