Responsibility for Violation of Ukrainian Legislation on Deputy Elections
1. An individual shall be brought to criminal, administrative or any other responsibility in accordance with law if he/she:
hinders, by means of violence, fraud, threat, bribery or otherwise, a citizen of Ukraine in exercising the right to vote and to be elected.
benefits from his/her official position in view of being elected deputy.
did not establish voter lists in due time or check information that should be included in these lists.
infringes on citizen’s right to familiarize himself/herself with voter list.
imparts obviously misleading information on candidates for deputies or commits other actions that humiliate honour and dignity of candidates for deputies.
impedes pre-election campaign publicity or violates established rules for pre-election campaign publicity.
does not observe the procedure for financing electoral process as established by the present Law.
creates obstacles to, or interferes in, the proceedings of election commissions or activities of elections commission members related to the discharging of their functions.
prevents voting at polling stations.
breaks the secrecy of voting.
forces voters to vote against their will.
violates the present Law when issuing ballots: issues to citizens' ballots in order to allow them to vote instead of other persons or to vote more than one time, issues ballots to citizens that are not on voter lists in polling station concerned or issues to citizens ballots that have been already filled in.
transmit blank ballots to other persons, except cases provided for by the present Law.
committed forgery with regard to election documents, a distortion or prepared and issued obviously false documents, or overtly miscalculated votes cast, or inaccurately determined election outcomes.
2. Laws of Ukraine may provide for responsibility for other violations of Ukrainian legislation on deputy elections.
