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Ukraine: Live Streamed Monitoring of District Election Commissions

Categories: Ukraine, Breaking News, Citizen Media, Digital Activism, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Politics

Amidst ongoing Euromaidan rallies [1] throughout Ukraine, repeat elections have been held in five troubled single-mandate constituencies in the country, where results could not be confirmed during the 2012 Parliamentary election [2].

In order to increase the transaprency of the electoral process, a non-government organization, Civil Network OPORA [3] [uk, en] is preparing to live stream the process of establishing election results at the five respective District Election Commissions. This is how the organization describes [4] it on their website:

Attention! At 8:30 pm, online streaming from every of 5 district election commissions (223, 94, 197, 194, and 132) will be organized by Civil Network OPORA. Voters, observers, and journalists will be able to monitor the receipt of protocols of precinct election commissions in 5 problematic districts and record the results of count. […]
The streaming will be available at the site of Civil Network OPORA: www.oporaua.org [3]