voting

The article is dedicated to the research of peculiarities of impact of the coronavirus pandemic on electoral process and voting results on the example of 2020 local elections in Ukraine. Using the complex of general scientific, logical and empirical methods, the peculiarities and problems of holding elections to local self-government bodies of Ukraine in 2020, which took place in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors argue that Ukrainian authorities didn’t follow the path of most foreign countries and decided not to postpone the date of local elections in 2020.

The article outlines the main provisions of the Draft Election Code of Ukraine adopted
by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on November 7, 2017, in its first reading. The attention
was paid to the positive provisions of the project and revealed a number of shortcomings.
Possible ways of its improvement are offered, in particular, to simplify the structure of the
code, the form of presentation of individual norms, to improve the definition of the terms in
the project and the date of their definition at the beginning of the code, and so on.