New accusations from www.ua.org.ua are that Yushchenko observers on a bus
from Kyiv were assaulted by thugs in Donetsk, these may be the buses from Kyiv mentioned on the from-ua site. The number of people voting from home in Mykolayev (where I believe an outrageous 30% voted at home last time) has dropped 100-fold.
SOMETHING TO SCARE YOU: So the Yushchenko people also say lots of Yanukovych observers from Donetsk are not showing up for work in L'viv. This strikes me as particularly scary, because then any Russian observers or various and sundry other Yanukovych people can say lots of falsifications took place at polling stations where Yushchenko is preferred by overwhelming numbers of voters. Then the Yanukovych people take these suits to court and the fact that their observer wasn't there makes it more difficult for Yushchenko's supporters to reject the claims.
Of course, maybe there just aren't many Yanukovych supporters in L'viv so they're really having trouble filling the spots, I sometimes get a little conspiratorial around here.
The Yushchenko people also report much lower voting numbers in Luhansk than last time, a fact which they think may reflect the crackdown on electoral fraud they pushed through. Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 04:14PM by Dan McMinn | Post a Comment Accusations from the Yanukovych side
Ok, so this site here:
has entirely anti-Yushchenko accusations of fraud, so I think it's safe to say it's a Yanukovych site. It is the only well-updated site with accusations against Yushchenko that I've found so far. Unfortunately, it's also only in Russian.
Basically, they have lots of accusations of Yushchenko manipulations that resemble Yanukovych ones from round one.
The accusations include that Yushchenko supporters are offering 50-150 griven for votes in Mariupol. This highly resembles the activities that the Yushchenko campaign called Yanukovych-promoted provocations when they occurred a couple days ago in Mikolayev.
The site also accuses Yushchenko supporters of organizing "carousel voting" at polling stations in Luhansk. (a procedure in which the election fixer offers a ballot filled out on behalf of a candidate, the taker goes into a box with it, casts it as his own and takes his own ballot back to the election fixer for cash)
More accusations are that lots of invalids are being added at the last minute in pro-Yushchenko Ternopil, Yanu observers are getting kicked out there, a bunch of accusations from Russian observers, most of which I believe originate at foul.ru. There are accusations from Yanukovych election committee members of busses with Kyiv plates showing up at 7am at polling stations in Donetsk. Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 03:08PM by Dan McMinn | Post a Comment The Accusations Begin
Ok, so the Yushchenko campaign site is absolutely FLYING. They've gotten about 9 articles up since this morning. Among other things, they have accusations about multiple voting, about dead soul voting, about individuals with false Yushchenko credentials, and a rebuke to a national radio station which broadcast a pro-Yushchenko spot after the agreed-upon deadline of last night.
The Yanukvoych campaign site, on the other hand, is not only not being updated, it's not working at all until the 27th! (sorry folks only in Ukrainian)
I will try to get any accusations from Yanukovych's side from some other source. -- Michael Pugliese