Unregistered people allowed to vote in sham Russian presidential ‘elections’ on occupied part of Ukraine’s Luhansk Oblast
People without registration were allowed to “vote” in the sham Russian presidential "elections" at specially designated "polling stations" on the temporarily occupied territory (TOT) of Ukraine’s Luhansk Oblast, the legitimate regional military administration head, Artem Lysohor, reported on Facebook on March 15.
The list of these stations has not been made public, so locals have to call a hotline to find out their locations.
"By the way, previously only people who could prove their registration on the territory of the so-called 'LNR' (Luhansk People's Republic) were allowed to vote. From now on, everything is allowed and everyone can participate," Lysohor wrote.
Earlier, activists of the Yellow Ribbon movement reported that Russian occupying forces were raiding apartments and forcibly kidnapping people to vote in Russia's illegitimate elections in the temporarily occupied Henichesk in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast.
Read also: Russians kidnapping people in occupied territories toforce them to vote in Russia’s sham election
So-called presidential “elections” are being held in Russia and Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories between March 15 and 17.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, who has been in power for 24 years, announced his participation in the “elections” last December. No opposition leaders or anti-war candidates were registered by the country’s Central Election Commission.
On March 11, Lysohor said that “early voting” in the Russian Presidential sham election would take place in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk Oblast for four days.
Earlier it was reported that “early voting” had also started in the occupied territory of ZaporizhzhyaOblast
The European Parliament announced on March 14 that it would not send its observers to the sham vote.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said the vote in the occupied territories would be "illegal and invalid.
On March 14 Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada [Parliament] called on foreign governments and parliaments, international organizations, and parliamentary assemblies to condemn Russia's illegal sham presidential "elections" in the Temporarily Occupied Territories (TOT).
Read also: Ukraine's Foreign Ministry says Moscow’s vote in occupied territories ‘illegal’
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