The prosecutor's office of the Volyn region opened 29 criminal cases based on the facts of non-compliance with election legislation during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, the Western Information Corporation was told on October 19 by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office.\n\nMost often, the perpetrators entered false information into the voter list about citizens of the district receiving absentee certificates. Several crimes of this type were committed at once by officials of the Manevychi district. The secretary of precinct election commission No. 36 of territorial election district No. 23 entered deliberately false data into the voter list about the issuance of absentee certificates to local voters, which they actually did not receive. The court's verdict was imprisonment for 5 years with a probationary period of 1 year. By a verdict of the Manevychi district court dated August 26 of this year, another secretary of precinct commission No. 37 was sentenced to the same term for an analogous act.\n\nAnother type of violation of election legislation is bribery of citizens. The court sentenced Ihor M. to two years of imprisonment for obstructing the exercise of citizens' voting rights by bribing voters, with a probationary period of 1 year. The same term, by court verdict, awaits the deputy head for academic affairs of the Boholyubska secondary school of grades 1-3. Serhii H. was sentenced by the court to three years of imprisonment. The perpetrator bought absentee certificates from voters.\n