Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Voting from Home

According to this post from Maidan , 537,481 people voted from home in the last election. Significantly, most were from Donetsk and Luhansk, Yanukovych strongholds.

Maidan makes the point that this flies in the face of Yanukovych's arguments that the election was void because these people could not vote. They did vote it turns out. But the other point is that this is a possible area of more voter fraud once again. The numbers are not all that large this time, but the discrepancy between the east and the west suggests something was going on.

This election though was much better than either of the previous two even with the problems. And Yuschenko won in spite of any of it. Works for me.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pro-Yanukovych supporters are saying that 8 people died because as invalids, they could not vote from home and had to suffer to go to the polls which directly caused their demise.

Also, worthy of note that "Georgia’s President Saakashvili was first to congratulate Yushchenko.
“Now, on behaf of Georgian people I can congratulate my friend Victor Yushchenko on winning a glorious victory in the election,” declared Saakashvili Sunday evening appearing live on the Ukrainian television, two hours after the polls had closed in Ukraine.
According to him, he contacted Georgian observers in Ukraine by phone and they reported, “the election have passed without irregularities in a democratic way.” "

Anonymous said...

Also worthy of note that " Georgia’s President Saakashvili was first to congratulate Yushchenko.
“Now, on behaf of Georgian people I can congratulate my friend Victor Yushchenko on winning a glorious victory in the election,” declared Saakashvili Sunday evening appearing live on the Ukrainian television, two hours after the polls had closed in Ukraine.
According to him, he contacted Georgian observers in Ukraine by phone and they reported, “the election have passed without irregularities in a democratic way.” "