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In settlements on the edge of the enemy, it will be necessary to organize special polling stations.
Most servicemen will vote at ordinary polling stations at their place of residence, and not at special ones, in the first post-war elections.
This was stated in an interview with LB.ua by Roman Lozynskyi, a People's Deputy from the Holos faction, the first deputy chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on State Power and Local Self-Government, and a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“When we talk about potential elections (Editor’s note: after the abolition of the martial law) and the voting of servicemen in them, nine out of ten servicemen will vote at ordinary polling stations,” Lozynskyi said.
He elaborated that these servicemen will go to the same stations as the rest of the citizens:
“Where parents with children will go, showing them how a ballot is cast, where everyone who lives in this district, in towns, villages, and settlements will go.”
At the same time, the deputy acknowledged that a certain portion of the military on election day will vote at the place where tasks are performed. He stressed that this refers to a scenario that is hard to imagine now—when there are no active hostilities, shelling, ballistic missiles, or drones, and the front line does not change.
Lozynskyi explained that Ukrainian units will be situated along the border line with the enemy—and not only border guards. According to him, there will be garrisons, platoon- and company-level strongpoints, observation posts that will become more stationary than the current field positions. The reason, he said, is that even a nominal peaceful time does not guarantee the absence of provocations by Russia if it continues to exist.
The deputy gave an example of a hypothetical Kostyantynivka, where due to mined areas, unexploded ordnance, and the absence of civilians, there will be no ordinary polling stations, but there will be troops who cannot travel for half a day to Pavlohrad, Kramatorsk, or Sloviansk. Therefore, there will be special polling stations.
“Just ignore them and say: ‘Sorry, you will not vote. Excuse me. Thank you for your service, you’re doing great, glory to Ukraine, but attend to your own matters, and come to the elections next time’? That would be wrong,” the deputy emphasized.
He added that special polling stations are not new: they already operated during wartime in presidential and parliamentary elections 2019 year, whereas in local elections 2020 year they did not because of territorial tying of the vote.
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