Ukraine's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected two more legal challenges to a decisive win by Orange Revolution leader Viktor Yuschenko in presidential polls. The high court refused to review complaints that the country's Central Election Committee failed to enforce voting law by allegedly refusing to make public details of new voting laws, and by failing to ensure all disabled voters received home voting rights. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, the loser in the Sunday vote, filed both complaints. The court rejected the first challenge on grounds Yanukovich failed to file his complaint within a maximum two-day period mandated by law. The second complaint was rejected because Yanukovich's lawyers, the court said, gave insufficient evidence demonstrating disabled voters had in fact been unable to cast ballots. The court rejected another Yanukovich challenge to the vote result on Wednesday. It continues to review a fourth and final complaint from the Yanukovich camp. There is no appeal to the decisions. Yuschenko defeated Yanukovich handily by an eight point margin on December 26. Yanukovich narrowly defeated Yuschenko in a November 21 poll, but the Supreme Court threw out the result as too tarred by vote-fixing to be valid. Widespread indignation over falsification in Yanukovich's favour sparked the biggest demonstrations in Ukraine's history, which became known as the Orange Revolution.
