bodied persons, including Ukrainians registered at hospitals, were supposed to have travelled to voting sites in vehicles provided by local governments. Yanukovich won the original vote by a narrow margin, in part, because hundreds of thousands of his supporters cast multiple ballots, once at home and once at polling stations. The country's southern Mykolaev province set the record with more than 35 per cent of all registered voters casting ballots at home, when in fact less than 2 per cent were actually qualified to do so, according to news reports. The Supreme Court cited similar violations as grounds for its annulment of the 21 Yanukovich win. The Constitutional Court, which is separate from the Supreme Court, had been the Yanukovich camp's last chance to block repeat elections. Officials from the Yanukovich campaign accepted the court ruling but criticised the decision as being too late, and too limited in scope, to help disabled voters cast ballots. "I am surprised that the decision only came now," said Yanukovich campaign manager Taras Chornovil. "Voters can react to the rule change (and request delivery of a urn to their residence for a home vote) only today and it is not clear whether they now will have time to do so." --MORE 2314 Local Time 2014 GMT
