Civil Network OPORA has prepared infographics to illustrate the liability for electoral crimes in 2015 local elections. It contains visualization of sentences imposed by courts, sort them per articles of Criminal Code and type of punishment, and make a portrait of an average offender.

Thus, most of the court sentences concern hiding of a ballot (12) and receiving an illegal incentive (12). Receiving ballots for another person (repeated voting) – 9 sentences. 7 sentences concerned illegal issuance of a ballot. As for the court judgments, there were 3 of them for receiving ballots for another person and 3 for proposing an illegal incentive; as well as 2 for illegal destruction of electoral documents. There was one sentence for each of the following violations: providing false information in documents of a candidate; filling in precinct protocols outside of a PEC meeting; receiving a ballot paper in an illegal way; bribery of voters by candidate's representatives; signing precinct protocols outside of a PEC meeting; and an attempt to receive a ballot instead of another person.

The number of sentences was the highest in the following oblasts: Odesa oblast – 13, Volyn – 11, Kyiv – 9, Ternopil – 7, Donetsk – 5, Rivne – 4, Dnipropetrovsk, Chernivtsi and Zhytomyr oblasts – 3, Sumy and Khmelnytsk – 2, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, Poltava and Kherson oblasts – 1.

35 offenders were fined from 510 to 8.500 UAH, and two of them were also prohibited to hold offices in election commissions.

34 offenders were placed on probation for 1 year; 17 of them were banned from leaving Ukraine for permanent residence without permission of an executive criminal inspection.

Two offenders were placed on probation for 1.6 years, and 5 for 2 years, banned from leaving Ukraine for permanent residence without permission of an executive criminal inspection. One offender was placed on probation for 3 years, banned from participating in elections as an election commission member or an official observer for 2 years, and banned from leaving Ukraine for permanent residence without permission of an executive criminal inspection.

Most of sentenced concerned violations committed by the voters (42). Besides that, 20 sentences were imposed against members of precinct election commissions, and 5 against other individuals. Most of the court judgments concerned candidates and official observers – 1 each.

Talking about a portrait of an average offender (a voter), it is a man (60%), living in a rural area (55%) and unemployed (55%). The majority of offenders among PEC members are employed (35%) women (95%) from rural areas (70%).