No widespread violations, but need for professionalization of election commissions
SUMMARY OPORA INTERIM REPORT The OPORA civil network will conduct the observation of the runoff mayoral elections that will take place on 22 November, 2020, in Berdiansk, Zaporizhia Oblast; Dnipro; Drohobych, Lviv Oblast; Lviv; Mykolaiv; Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast; Poltava; Rivne; Slovyansk, Donetsk Oblast; Uzhhorod; and Cherkasy. Between these eleven Ukrainian cities, four mayoral candidates […]
Increase in black PR and manipulative schemes to gain votes
Polling station in Dnipro, 25.10.2020. Source: rferl.org Briefing summary CVU Chairman Oleksiy Koshel noted that the CVU recorded many cases of black PR on the eve of the second round of elections. “Before the election, we are seeing massive use of black PR. We have the impression that black PR has grown significantly compared […]
Lowest turnout in 10 years due to weekend quarantine order
Source: atlanticcouncil.org (REUTERS/Stanislav Kozliuk) Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) Chairman Oleksiy Koshel noted that elections took place in seven city communities. In five of these communities, typical violations of electoral law were recorded, which did not significantly impact results. These included mistakes in commissions’ work, several examples of obstruction to observers’ work, including that of […]
Second round elections see similar violations and issues to first round, but of no significant extent to impact election results
OPORA civil network conducted independent non-partisan observation of the repeat mayoral election held on November 15, 2020 in Lutsk, Odessa, Sumy, Kherson, Kamianets-Podilsky of Khmelnytsky Oblast, Kramatorsk, and Ukrainka of Kyiv Oblast. In all localities, except Ukrainka, the runoff election was called because none of the candidates had won more than 50% of the votes […]
Second round of elections: main problems and risks
Source: kyivpost.com (Kostyantyn Chernichkin) Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) Chairman Oleksiy Koshel noted during a press briefing that the second round of elections will take place on November 15 in 7 communities, and on November 22 in other communities. The second round will likely take place during the weekend quarantine, which may affect […]
Interim report before run-off elections: need to revise system for processing and publishing election data
Source: euromaidanpress.com Summary of interim report The process of establishing voting results and the results of the local elections of October 20, 2020, being predictably long-running and not entirely transparent, has provoked excessive suspicion and sometimes reasonable criticism of the election administration bodies on the part of various election participants and voters, too. As […]
When and where are second rounds of local elections being held?
When will be the second round held in communities with 75,000 voters or more, if none of the candidates receives 50% + 1 vote? The date varies for each community. According to Article 281 (1) of the Election Code, the second round shall be scheduled for Sunday, within three weeks following the date when the […]
Findings and conclusions: local elections in Ukraine
Image source: Civil Network Opora On October 29, 2020, EPDE hosted a post-election expert Round Table to discuss the outcomes of the local elections held on October 25 in Ukraine. Representatives of domestic and international election observation missions together with international election experts summarized main findings and discussed take-aways of these elections for the […]
Key conclusions from election day
The Committee of Voters of Ukraine reports that the most serious problem by the end of voting yesterday was voter bribery. Bribing of voters to change their address to vote in a specific constituency was also reported, as well as instances of bussing voters to constituencies. The second major problem of Election Day were instances […]
Main issues on voting day – voter bribery and attempts to falsify the vote
Polling station closed for cleaning. Image source: facebook.com/cvu.ngo During today’s briefing, the Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) presented a report on the results of monitoring on voting day. CVU experts noted that as of 6pm, the most serious problem detected was voter bribery. During the preparation stages of the election campaign, evidence of systems […]