In order to determine the level of electoral sympathies of the residents of Lutsk regarding the most likely individuals in local politics who could take the position of mayor of our city, the Volyn regional organization "National Alliance" conducted a public opinion study on August 28 in the form of mayoral elections on Theater Square in Lutsk. To give the mock event a more realistic representation, representatives of the Volyn branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine were invited to observe the conduct of the "elections on the square." The procedural aspects of preparing for the voting included the process of printing ballots, the number of which was 1,000 copies. The latter were delivered to a "fictional mini-precinct" located on the Theater Square of the city and handed over to members of the election commission. Voting began at 12:16 and lasted until 15:00. The public of the city was offered a list of 14 of the most influential people in Lutsk who could quite likely submit their candidacies in the 2006 elections. According to estimates by the Volyn branch of the CVU, this survey cannot provide a clearly defined objective picture of the electoral moods of Lutsk residents, and therefore on the whole cannot serve as an argument for using the results of the corresponding voting in favor of or against any of the above-mentioned candidacies. There are several reasons for this statement. Firstly, the organizational and technical support for conducting the "fictional elections" was at a low level: gross errors in drafting the form of the ballots themselves (the absence in the document of the columns "Your option" and "against any candidate," confusion in the identifications of the candidates' positions themselves – Hennadii Kozhevnikov for some reason "became" head of the department of internal policy of the Volyn Regional State Administration, and Oleksandr Martyniuk – head of the department for consumer rights protection (?!), failure to take into account the age threshold of voters (persons under 18 years of age took part in the voting), filling out ballots outside the "fictional precinct," the absence of any information about the candidates themselves (near the voting table there was a stand with information about the NGO "National Alliance" and photographs of only eight candidates), the use by some "voters" of the "carousel" method. Also, when organizing this kind of social survey, it is necessary to take into account all general methodological criteria of public opinion research, considering both demographic and geographic boundaries for conducting this kind of initiative in order to determine truly realistic and objective indicators.