Darth Alekseyevich Vader, a former electrician and official candidate in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, has promised to turn Ukraine into a "galactic empire." However, it appears the dream of galactic uberlordship is ending as a Kiev polling station has denied his ability to cote after he refused to remove his mask. As The Telegraph reports, [4] he left the polling station unable to vote but promising that it did not mean his "empire will not win."
A candidate in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, who changed his name to Darth Vader, tried to cast his vote at a Kiev polling station on Sunday, but left disappointed.
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Darth Alekseyevich Vader, a former electrician, has promised to turn Ukraine into a "galactic empire".
Despite his pledge to enhance transparency, he declines to show his face in public – which proved a problem for election officials.
Upon arrival at the polling station, Vader refused to remove his mask, which led to a row with the officer who was handing out the ballot papers.
"Here is my face on the passport. Where does the law say that I have to take off my mask?" he insisted, but his pleas fell on deaf ears.
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He left the polling station unable to vote but promising that it did not mean his "empire will not win."
Meanwhile, Ukraine's prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk called the vote the "first tremendous and crucial step" to make Ukrainian politics more clear and accountable as he voted with his family.
Ex-Boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kiev and Petro Poroshenko bloc candidate, also cast his ballot alongside his wife in another polling station in the capital.
He welcomed the idea of a "total reset of the parliament."
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As Alec Guinnes may have said, "there are not the election results you are looking for."
