Ukrainian election observation - in DC

Following up on last year's photo report from the elections at the Moldovan Embassy in Moscow, here's a similar report from the Ukrainian elections in late March of this year - as they were conducted at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, DC. I guess I am rather tardy in posting this, given that the election was over a month ago - these photos are from March 26th, right around noon. I have to say, the scene was considerably more orderly than what I saw in March 2005 on Kuznetsky Most.

The Ukrainian Embassy occupies a beautiful and historic building in Georgetown - a lovely area, but inaccessible by Metro.

Apparently this is the building where the agreement was signed to carve the District of Columbia out of Maryland and Virginia. Virginia, of course, later took its part of DC back.

This bus was carrying diaspora Ukrainians from Pennsylvania, if its license plate can be believed (often, though, the license plates of commercial vehicles have little bearing on what state they're actually coming from).

Inside the Embassy - more staff than voters! Everything was running very smoothly, and the Embassy security officer was friendly and not averse to a non-citizen (me) accompanying his Ukrainian friends and taking a few pictures.

"Find yourself in the list of voters," if I'm not mixing up this translation.

The ballot boxes. In the background are the voting booths.

Not particularly attractive photos, aesthetically, but it is always nice to see people excited about voting, and just about everyone there was. I don't have photos of people dropping ballots into the box, etc., because I figured they might not want to be featured in a stranger's blog. Note - the voters here did not get a stamp in their passport like the Moldovan voters in Moscow did last year.