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The vote in Eastern and Southern Ukraine is distorted because of fraud, but Yulia Tymoshenko’s team will defend its result.

"There was especially large distortion of the vote in Eastern and Southern Ukraine, and partly in the center. This includes election commissions adding citizens to the voter lists without court decisions, ‘carousels’, disappearing ink, and numerous other violations. That’s why Viktor Yanukovych at this point is 'ahead' of Yulia Tymoshenko. However, our team will make every effort to protect its result," said Olena Shustik, the deputy head of BYuT.

According to her, "it’s still early to draw conclusions and for supporters of the leader of the Party of Regions to rejoice in victory. Putin already congratulated Yanukovych once. Everyone saw what came of it."

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Yulia Tymoshenko’s campaign manager Oleksandr Turchynov reports that based on results of their parallel vote count Yulia Tymoshenko is winning in 17 oblasts of Ukraine.

"We have counted 85.7% of protocols from the polling station commissions. Yulia Tymoshenko has achieved a convincing victory in 17 administrative territorial units," Oleksandr Turchynov said today on a briefing.

However, he notes that support for the two candidates is currently divided equally.

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Yulia Tymoshenko’s campaign manager Oleksandr Turchynov was reported that they plan to have results of a parallel vote count just after midnight.

"Given that there are only two candidates for President, I think we’ll have preliminary results by morning, or most likely by 1am," he said during a press conference at their press center.

The parallel vote count will be conducted via a computerized tally of results called in and copies of vote protocols from polling station and district election commissions.

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Yulia Tymoshenko’s campaign headquarters intends to demand that the results of voting at those polling stations where representatives of Yulia Tymoshenko could not work as of members of election commissions be invalidated.

"Many of our polling station commission members in the Donetsk oblast weren't allowed to work, and of course we will demand that the results from these polling stations not be recognized," Yulia Tymoshenko’s campaign manager Oleksandr Turchynov has said.

According to him, this applies to nearly one thousand polling stations. "We will have exact information in 1.5-2 hours regarding cases where our people weren’t given the right to become election commission members because the commission’s decision was blocked, or they simply weren’t allowed into the polling station."

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Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko cast her ballot today at polling station 2, territorial election district 26 in Dnipropetrovsk, located at the Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy.

She was accompanied by her daughter Eugenia and husband Oleksandr.

After she voted, Yulia Tymoshenko said she was in a festive mood today. "I congratulate you on this holiday of democracy, when people can freely express their position and vote for a democratic country. I voted for a new Ukraine, a happy and prosperous European state. And it is precisely in such a state that every person can find his or her place and happiness."

Yulia Tymoshenko will spend the day with her family.

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The second round of voting in the Ukrainian presidential elections takes place on February 7.

The President of Ukraine shall be elected by the citizens of Ukraine on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage, by means of a secret ballot. The voters are guaranteed conditions to form and express their will freely during voting.

According to the Law of Ukraine "On the Elections of the President of Ukraine" repeat voting shall be called for the third Sunday after the day of elections. The first round of voting was held on January 17, 2010, therefore, the second round is on February 7, 2010.

The two candidates to the post of President of Ukraine, who in the result of the vote on the day of the elections received the highest number of votes, shall be included into the election ballot for repeat voting. On February 7, 2010, the ballot will include current Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko and Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych.

The candidate, who according to the results of the repeat vote received more votes of voters, who participated in the vote, than the other candidate, shall be declared the elected President of Ukraine.

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The prospect of election fraud once more looms large in Ukraine. Just days before voters go to the polls, President Viktor Yushchenko signed into law amendments to rules governing the election process that could pave the way to mass falsifications.

At a parliamentary session on Wednesday, the party of presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych, with support from the Communist Party and dissidents from the Our-Ukraine-People’s Self-Defence bloc, voted in the amendments. The changes scrap the requirement for a quorum of representatives of both contenders to approve the count at individual polling stations.

It means that local election commissions in charge of the country's 38,000 or so voting stations will be able to sign off the results without the approval of commission members nominated by Ms Tymoshenko.

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Advisor to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Hanne Severinsen believes the Party of Regions is attempting to create the same conditions for election fraud as in 2004.

"Unfortunately, the Party of Regions, as in 2004, is trying to create conditions for vote fraud: thus, I’d like to call on the President of Ukraine, as the guarantor of the Constitution, to veto the amendments we’ve referred to and I’m calling other political forces in Ukraine who don’t have broad inter-party support to abstain from voting on the proposed amendments to the presidential election law," announced Hanne Severinsen.

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Presidential candidate and current Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced that as a result of parliament’s adoption of amendments to the presidential election law, the country stands before the threat of democratic destruction.

"Today we are feeling that our country has come face to face before the threat of total democratic ruin. Everything that was left to us by the previous authorities – that is to conduct a free and fair election, but the Party of Regions wants to take this chance from us. They want to destroy the last achievement – holding fair elections," announced Yulia Tymoshenko today at a press conference in Kyiv.

The prime minister stated that the draft law was submitted by the Party of Regions contrary to rules and procedures, without the participation of key parliamentary committees, and without having a comparison chart given to members of parliament for comparing the old and new version of the bill.

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Several hour ago an extraordinary events took place in the Verkhovna Rada. Three days to the elections, the presidential election law was amended, thus fully destroying the presidential elections – making them fraudulent, dishonest and uncontrollable.

This was done because Yanukovych doesn’t believe in his victory, and wants to achieve this result only through fraud.

Until these unacceptable changes were made, election commissions were formed on a parity principle – half of the commission representing Yanukovych, and the other half me. And this gave hope that the results would be monitored and controlled.

However, the amendments to the law, which were made in violation of all parliamentary rules, essentially destroyed parliamentarism and equal control over the elections. And now, according to this law, members of election commissions can be kicked out without a court ruling and the commissions can be comprised of members from only one candidate

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