But no sign of major violations yet

The most important thing needed in this election, that it be free and fair, seems to have happened.

The CVU has so far found long lines at the polls the most significant impediment to Ukrainians exercising their right to vote. They say the polls opened without major incident, and mentioned a few generally minor problems: overstuffed boxes, a drunken polling station commission leader. Please do check out their site. There were a couple more troublesome problems in some regions: accusations of ballot stuffing and carousel voting.

No new press releases from the OSCE that I can find. I don't expect their preliminary report on the election for a few days.

The CIS election monitors criticized the continued presence of some NSNU campaign posters during the voting. (a picture of one such posteris on Neeka's Backlog) The posters are quite annoying and unfair, and should be criticized. But as with a couple drunk commission heads, it's still small beer. I can't find anything more than that from this CIS Belarus website, and don't know where else I might find it. They may be reserving further comment until later, like the OSCE.

In any case, don't set too much stock in their accusations. Their election observation mission revealed its lack of credibility when it called Yanukovych's stolen Nov 2004 vote "transparent, legal, and free," and did the same for both the 2006 and 2004 elections in Belarus. It's nice to have them around to scout out any problems they can find, but don't pay attention to their conclusions.

Expect the Bulk of the Results to Start Coming in by 3AM Ukraine Time 

Check in with the Central Election Commission for the latest results of the actual vote count. It will still be quite a while before the results are likely to get in because the polls only closed at 10pm (an admirable extension of two hours beyond the time they closed during the presidential election, certainly for the purpose of giving people to fill out enormous ballots; some heroic poll station commissions waited even longer). From what I saw with the OSCE in 2004, when the polls closed at 8pm it took until one or two AM to finish the vote count. Expect the counting to remain incomplete until around three or even four, then, (at a minimum, considering the ballots this time are much larger), then another hour or so for the regional election centers to gather up the results from individual polling stations and announce them.

That means 6am Ukrainian time, more or less. Who knows how long it will take the CEC to give the official nation-wide vote count.

Until those votes come out, you can take a look at Neeka's Backlog (Ah, the indispensable Neeka), where she has posted up some of the exit poll numbers.