--- Michael Pugliese <michael098762001 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=967359&tw=wn_wire_story
> KIEV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Exit polls in the re-run
> of Ukraine's
> presidential election Sunday said liberal challenger
> Viktor Yushchenko had
> beaten Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich by a wide
> margin.
>
> Yushchenko, who called crowds of supporters into the
> streets to denounce
> cheating in the last poll, scored 56.5 percent to
> 41.3 percent for
> Yanukovich, according to a poll by the Kiev
> International Institute for
> Sociology and the Razumkov Center.
>
> A second poll, by the Center for Social Monitoring,
> gave him an even wider
> lead -- putting his share of the vote at 58.1
> percent and Yanukovich's at
> 38.4 percent.
>
>
> Yanukovich had initially been declared the winner in
> last month's run-off
> vote, but his victory was overturned by the Supreme
> Court which agreed
> with opposition charges that the election was rigged
> in his favor.
>
> The figures in the first exit poll represented 80
> percent of a sample of
> 30,000 voters who were polled across the former
> Soviet republic. The
> second exit poll surveyed 13,000 voters.
>
> Copyright © 2003 Reuters Limited.
> --
> Michael Pugliese
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