A Ukraininan representative of Yulia Tymoshenko's party has been found dead at a polling station, and ballot papers are missing. Photo by BGNES
Oleksandr Turchynov, the campaign manager for presidential candidate Yuliya Tymoshenko, announced that its party representative and secretary of a polling precinct in Ivano Frankivsk Oblast has been found dead, Kyiv Post has reported on Sunday.
"The secretary of Polling Precinct 62 from Voting District Number 85 was at her polling precinct before she died," Turchynov said. "The safe at her polling precinct was found open and voting ballots were missing."
Turchynov added that polling commission representatives of Tymoshenko have been harrassed in Donetsk Oblast and in Crimea.
At the headquarters of Tymoshenko's rival Victor Yanukovych, campaign spokeswoman Hanna Herman said at 13:00 p.m. that no system voting violations have yet been reported.
However, police had registered 14 cases by midday on Sunday where Ukraine's election laws have allegedly been breached during the presidential run-off poll, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported.
By noon the ministry's emergency headquarters had received 14 reports on breaches of the election laws, Ukrainian Interior Ministry's Public Security Department head Volodymyr Mayevsky said at a press conference in Kyiv.
Most cases were registered in the Ternopil and Luhansk regions and the Crimea, according to the official.
There had been five cases of illegal campaigning, one attempt to bribe voters, two instances of unruly behavior, one refusal to work as an election commission member and three reports about bombs being planted at polling stations, he said.