A voter registered in district #134 in Malynovskyi city district of Odesa has eaten his ballot
Information reported by a press-service of Odesa oblast branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine. According to observers of CVU, a 50-years-old man received his ballot, entered the booth and came out of it in few minutes.
Than he approached the ballot box, but, instead of putting ballots inside, he covered the ballot box with a plastic bag containing symbols of one candidate which is standing as a candidate in this district, placed his ballot on the bag and started eating them.
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