Police opened a case under the criminal code on the fact of failure of the voting process in Mariupol, informs the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine in Donetsk region on Tuesday. in Ukraine last Sunday were local elections. However in Mariupol due to the lack of ballot papers could not begin its work 205 polling stations, from-for what inhabitants were deprived of the right to participate in local elections. "This fact investigative management of gumvd of Ukraine in Donetsk region entered in the unified register of pre-judicial investigations with untested legal qualifications for some third 3 of article 157 of the Criminal code (obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights or the right to participate in referendum - ed.)", - is informed in the report. The sanction of article prescribes punishment in the form of punishment for the term from three till seven years. Police stressed that while open Criminal proceedings the police will be a complete, comprehensive trial data events, identified all the factors that have influenced the electoral process in Mariupol. "and among them will be tested the activity of Mariupol city election Commission and provide legal assessment of all established facts ", - quotes the regional Department of militia of the words of his chief Vyacheslav Abroskin. in the Donbass elections were held only in part of the territories controlled by Kiev. Moreover, in addition to Mariupol, valaisiana did not take place in Krasnoarmeysk, Donetsk region, where the territorial election Commission declared the ballot invalid, as they were printed in a private press. Though the CEC on a Sunday and ordered a red army Commission to give the ballots to the districts and to start the electoral process, However this has not been, and in the evening the Police declared that the head of the Krasnoarmeysky municipal election Commission is missing the seal of the Commission.