--- title: Official sample ballot, Crimean status referendum of 16 March 2014 url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/crimean-referendum-ballot-sample-2014/ description: 'Annex to the Supreme Council of Crimea''s resolution of 6 March 2014: a ballot in Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar with two options, joining Russia as…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Official sample ballot, Crimean status referendum of 16 March 2014](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/crimean-referendum-ballot-sample-2014.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/crimean-referendum-ballot-sample-2014.png) # Official sample ballot, Crimean status referendum of 16 March 2014 Annex to the Supreme Council of Crimea's resolution of 6 March 2014: a ballot in Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar with two options, joining Russia as a federal subject, or restoring the 1992 Crimean constitution and Crimea's status as part of Ukraine. A ballot with neither or both marked is invalid. The tell is the choice set: neither option is the constitutional arrangement then in force, and there is no way to vote for neither. ## Text on the object Original (Multiple) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Приложение 1 к Постановлению Верховной Рады Автономной Республики Крым от 6 марта 2014 года № 1702-6/14 Б Ю Л Л Е Т Е Н Ь для голосования на общекрымском референдуме 16 марта 2014 года Б Ю Л Е Т Е Н Ь для голосування на загальнокримському референдумі 16 березня 2014 року 2014 сенеси март 16-да умумкъырым референдумында рей берильмеси ичюн БЮЛЛЕТЕНЬ Отметьте любым знаком в квадрате тот вариант ответа, за который Вы голосуете: Позначте будь-яким знаком у квадраті той варіант відповіді, за який Ви голосуєте: Насыл бир вариант ичюн рей бергенинъизни ишаретнен бельгиленъиз: 1) Вы за воссоединение Крыма с Россией на правах субъекта Российской Федерации? 1) Ви за возз'єднання Криму з Росією на правах суб'єкта Російської Федерації? 1) Русие Федерациону субъекти акъларында Къырым Русиеге къошулмасына разысынъыз? [empty box] 2) Вы за восстановление действия Конституции Республики Крым 1992 года и за статус Крыма как части Украины? 2) Ви за відновлення дії Конституції Республіки Крим 1992 року і за статус Криму як частини України? 2) Сиз Къырым Джумхуриетининъ 1992 сенеси ичюн Анаясасы амельге кечирильмеси ве Къырым Украина къысмы оларакъ статусы ичюн? [empty box] Бюллетень, в котором оставлены неотмеченными или отмечены оба варианта ответа, считается недействительным. Бюлетень, в якому залишено непозначеними або позначено обидва варіанти відповіді, вважається недійсним. Къайд этильмеген я да эки вариант къайд этильгени заманда бюллетень керчек сайылмаз. Бюллетень изготавливается размером 210 х 150 мм на бумаге белого цвета. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Annex 1 to the Resolution of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea of 6 March 2014, No. 1702-6/14 B A L L O T for voting in the all-Crimean referendum of 16 March 2014 [the same heading in Ukrainian] [the same heading in Crimean Tatar] Mark the answer option you are voting for with any sign in the square: [the same instruction in Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar] 1) Are you in favour of the reunification of Crimea with Russia as a subject of the Russian Federation? [the same question in Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar] [empty box] 2) Are you in favour of restoring the Constitution of the Republic of Crimea of 1992 and of Crimea's status as part of Ukraine? [the same question in Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar] [empty box] A ballot in which neither answer option is marked, or in which both are marked, is considered invalid. [the same rule in Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar] The ballot is produced at a size of 210 x 150 mm on white paper. ``` Typed document, fully legible. The Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar texts are transcribed as read and have not been checked by a Ukrainian or Crimean Tatar reader; the translation covers the Russian text, and the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar lines are presumed to say the same. The Ukrainian heading is printed 'Бюлетень' once with a single 'л', as in the source. [← Вместе с Россией. 16 марта – Референдум! (Together with Russia. 16 March: Referendum!): Simferopol billboards](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vmeste-s-rossiei-simferopol-2014/) ['#RussiaIsolated' Foreign & Commonwealth Office infographic →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/russia-isolated-fco-infographic-2014/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (Kingdom of England · 1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [The Virginia Argus, "Letter to Mazzei" and rebuttal, 16 September 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/virginia-argus-letter-to-mazzei-1800/) (United States · Sep 16, 1800 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [The Examiner, No. 608, 22 August 1819, 'Disturbances at Manchester' (Peterloo)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/examiner-disturbances-at-manchester-1819/) (United Kingdom · Aug 22, 1819 · Card stacking) - [Punch, 'Laurels at Ningpo' column on the First Opium War, 1842](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/punch-laurels-at-ningpo-1842/) (United Kingdom · 1842 · Card stacking). Content note: Period satirical prose describing the killing of Chinese soldiers at Ningpo in graphic terms, using period terms such as 'pig-tail' for Chinese people. - [La paz según el Perú – La paz según los chilenos (Peace According to Peru, Peace According to the Chileans)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-paz-segun-el-peru-el-banquillo-1880/) (Peru · Jun 12, 1880 · Card stacking) - [New York Journal and Advertiser, front page, 17 February 1898 ($50,000 reward, Maine 'work of an enemy')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ny-journal-maine-destroyed-enemy-1898/) (United States · Feb 17, 1898 · Card stacking)