Ukraine supreme court invalidates election results

[da_chimperor]

Oops . . . Just saw it on CNN.

Link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&ncid=732&e=1&u=/ap/20041203/ap_on_re_eu/ukraine_election



Ukraine High Court Calls for New Election

KIEV, Ukraine - The Supreme Court declared the results of Ukraine's disputed presidential run-off election invalid and ruled Friday that a repeat vote should be held.

The court issued its verdict in response to an appeal by opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who asked to cancel results of the Nov. 21 runoff, which he said had been rigged in favor of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

[Dems Will Win]

1. And an election challenge to Ohio to invalidate our vote comes Monday.

[maddezmom]

2. here's a link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&ncid=732&e=1&u=/ap/20041203/ap_on_re_eu/ukraine_election

[maddezmom]

3. revote to take place within 3 weeks...according to CNN

[maddezmom]

6. Presiding Judge Anatoly Yarema said the rerun should be held by Dec. 26.

[da_chimperor]

5. Heh, that was confusing for a second

:D

[DistressedAmerican]

4. Hitting the Streets Works!

Hitting the streets works people! Now that's what I call democracy. Maybe the Ukrainian government just isn't as slick as BushCo.
DA

http://www.seedsofdoubt.com/distressedamerican/main.htm

[Dover]

7. Ukrainian President makes unscheduled trip to Moscow to discuss crisis.

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT MAKES UNSCHEDULED TRIP TO MOSCOW TO DISCUSS CRISIS...
President Vladimir Putin met for two hours on 2 December with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who made an unscheduled trip to Moscow to discuss Ukraine's political crisis (see Ukraine items, "RFE/RL Newsline Part 2"), Russian media reported. Addressing journalists following the talks at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, Putin expressed his disagreement with Ukrainian opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko's demand that his disputed 21 November presidential runoff against government-backed and pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych be repeated. Putin voiced his support for holding a new election entirely, saying, "a re-vote could be conducted a third, a fourth, a 25th time, until one side gets the results it needs," RTR reported. Kuchma echoed Putin's sentiments, saying, "I don't know of a single country that has such a legal norm as a re-vote," RTR reported. Putin praised Kuchma for keeping the situation in Ukraine under control, and expressed Russia's concerns over "the possibility of Ukraine splitting up." He also said that Russia is prepared to help resolve the crisis, and that "Russia will always be together with Ukraine." VY

...AND PROMPTS SPECULATION AS TO HIS TRUE INTENTIONS
Commenting on Kuchma's visit to Moscow, Duma Deputy Speaker Sergei Baburin (Motherland) said on 2 December that he believes the Ukrainian president made the trip to persuade Putin to retreat from his open support for Yanukovych, TV-Tsentr on 2 December...cont'd

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/1-rus.asp

[maddezmom]

8. kick

[Harlan James]

9. Will The Ukraine Prove Better Able To Deal With Massive Vote Fraud...

...than the United States?

I can't see our Supreme Court ordering a revote no matter how compelling the evidence.

[LiberalMandrake]

10. Ukraine parliament demands withdrawal of troops from Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041203/wl_mideast_afp/ukraine_vote_iraq&cid=1514&ncid=1480

[damntexdem]

11. Hey, would we have standing to ...

challenge the Ohio and Florida election results in the Ukrainian Supreme Court? ;-)

[JudyM]

12. Clever idea but sadly, we're stuck with our own biased Supremes