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The Supreme Court findings

The annulment of the November 21 vote, as decided by the Supreme Court on December 3, was based on the following findings (see full text of judgment in Ukrainian):

[...] the Central Electoral Commission did not analyze in plenary session the protocols of the territorial electoral commissions summarizing the results of the vote [...], did not verify the authenticity of said protocols, and did not verify whether the other documents mentioned in article 83, part 6, of the Law "On the election of the President of Ukraine," were deposited with the Commission in the way prescribed by law, in their entirety.

In short: The Court is not satisfied that the vote results published on the national level correctly reflect the results gathered in the territorial commissions, or that Central Electoral Commission's work was based on complete and genuine documentation.

At the time when the Central Electoral Commission determined the result of the run-off vote [...], the Commission had not reviewed the declarations and the complaints against violations, by territorial electoral commissions, of the procedure for determining the vote results [...], and against the decisions taken by the territorial commissions taken in response to complaints, and the time limit for reviewing said complaints had not yet expired.

At the time when the Central Electoral Commission determined the result of the run-off vote [...], the courts of had not completed the review of timely submitted complaints against decisions or absence of decisions of territorial electoral commissions, concerning the determination of vote results, and the time limit for reviewing said complaints had not expired.

In short: The Central Electoral Commission  ignored protests, and determined the results of the vote without waiting for the courts to review protests [note: the Comission was competent for reviewing certain protests, the courts were competent regarding other protests].

[...] citizens were registered in lists of voters lists multiple times, persons without voting rights were registered in lists of voters

The requirements of  articles 23, 24, 85 [of the Law "On the election of the President of Ukraine" ], regarding the choice of members of electoral commissions, were not met

The requirements set of articles 68, 69, 70 regarding the participation of official observers in the electoral procedure, were not met

The requirements of article 77 regarding vote outside voting stations [vote at home, for the disabled; description here] were not met

The protocols of precinct electoral commissions containing the results of vote were established in violation of the requirements of article 79

The transmission of documents to territorial electoral commissions took place in violation of article 81.

In short: The members of electoral commissions were not chosen lawfully, the activity of official observers was hindered, the voting at home procedures were conducted unlawfully, the counting of ballots was conducted at the local level in an unlawful way, and the results of counting were transmitted in ways inconsistent with the lawful procedure.

The Court concludes as follows

the possibility of determining the true will of the voters in a credible way is excluded

and, based on this conclusion, calls a new vote for December 26.