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On September 10, elections are held in 82 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. “The Voice” writes about the most interesting and important things in this chronicle.
At the same time, the commission did not dare to make changes to the protocol previously issued to observers.
— Stas Raczynski (@_stas_R) September 11, 2017We checked the protocol according to PEC 1055, the data matched. In the end, the authorities did not dare to change the protocol. We are waiting for a quorum of the TEC to sum up the results.
— Oleg Kozlovsky (@kozlovsky) September 11, 2017
This happened after the arrival of the operational investigation team
An investigative team has arrived at the Izmailovo TEC and is now inspecting the premises of the council - looking for the missing chairman of the PEC. pic.twitter.com/fLk30dDTA9
— Oleg Kozlovsky (@kozlovsky) September 11, 2017
The frightened major stood at the door and said sadly: “We should have broken it earlier before I arrived.” And the lieutenant phlegmatically: “The main thing is no fights.”
— Oleg Kozlovsky (@kozlovsky) September 11, 2017
For comparison: the turnout in Moscow at the 2017 EDC elections was about 13%, the British turnout on June 23, 2016 for the Brexit referendum was about 72%, in the first round of regional elections in France in 2015 - 49.91%.
The elections on September 10 put an end to both the Kremlin’s last illusions that the majority of the population is for United Russia, and the hypotheses that social tension has reached its limit and revolutionary sentiments are in the air in society.
WINNERS - KREMLIN APPOINTMENTS
The outcome of the gubernatorial elections was predetermined even before a single voting day in the Kremlin, which replaced a number of ineffective governors in advance and appointed interim ones (Table 1). It was precisely these interims who became the only recognizable political figures in the region. The people traditionally voted for those whose names were well known. And as always, I voted not for merit, but in advance. This is exactly how Russians will have to vote in the presidential elections: not for merit - the May decrees as election promises have failed, the economy is in recession, the country is isolated, they will vote for new promises in the hope that this time they will definitely be fulfilled.
As can be seen from Table 1, the absolute majority was given to the acting governor.
The political advantages of interim officials before the elections are obvious: as a rule, they have little time to establish themselves as corrupt officials or appointees indifferent to the region. Unlike opposition candidates, their names are already well-known, although literally a year before the elections they were completely unknown to their voters, since almost all of them have nothing to do with the region of which they were appointed governors. But the current governors had a more difficult time. Like the Russian president, they had to solve some of the problems of their voters in a revealing manner. For example, in Tomsk, and let me remind you that the current governor of the Tomsk region was Zhilkin, the grand opening of water supply networks took place on Shpalnaya and Stroevaya streets. People finally got speakers installed on their streets in the 21st century. Now they don’t have to wait for delivery, they can get water on the street! And the supply to the house is already independent.
What can I say, a large-scale event for a country that is building a digital economy, plans to be a leader in the field of artificial intelligence, and has long imagined itself as a technologically advanced country thanks to Rusnano and Skolkovo.
MOSCOW PHENOMENON
In Moscow, municipal deputies were elected, whose votes are necessary for the future candidate for mayor of the capital to pass the municipal filter. The peculiarity of the elections in Moscow is that they tried to make them invisible, not to attract special attention to them. And the city day turned out to be more opportune than ever. All the talk in the run-up to the elections was not about voting day, but about City Day, about planned events. As a result, the turnout in the elections was only 14.8%. As you know, fraud in elections with low turnout is an easier task than in elections with high turnout. That is, they decided to put the capital to sleep, taking into account the growing sympathy for Navalny and other liberal oppositionists. However, even despite the low turnout, the opposition was able to achieve noticeable results: the Yabloko party took second place, gaining 11.72% of the votes. The party in power gained 76%. These results allowed the chairman of the Yabloko party to conclude that “Russians want change. And the moment will come when this process will become irreversible and this will be the beginning of a serious renewal in the country.”
This year’s elections in the capital are reminiscent of the results of the 2016 State Duma elections, when United Russia had a constitutional majority - over 75% of the votes. The party in power received 1,154 deputy mandates, representatives of Yabloko - 176 mandates, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 43 mandates (previously there were 212), A Just Russia - 10, LDPR - 4. This situation suggests that Moscow has realized that the Duma opposition is a prolongation of the course of United Russia , therefore, it relied on the force that is still demonstrating its opposition to the regime.
Based on the voting results, it must be stated that in 2018, when the candidate from the mayor will have to pass the municipal filter, collecting 6% of the signatures of local deputies and enlisting support in at least three quarters of municipalities, that is, in at least 110 municipalities, it will be possible only Sobyanin can pass. The remaining parties, even united, will not be able to enlist the support of 110 municipalities. Apple is represented in 51 entities, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - in 22, and self-nominated candidates - in 12. That is, despite the small victory of the opposition, we have to admit that the current government clearly won, and the results of the 2018 elections in Moscow are again a foregone conclusion.
DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW
The authorities and society have different assessments of the processes taking place in the country. The authorities see elections as a competitive struggle. As Pamfilova said a month before the elections: “The President very clearly set the task: elections must be as transparent and legitimate as possible, first of all, elections must be recognized by our citizens, they must believe in them.” The turnout of 14.8% in the elections in Moscow and in some other regions is precisely an indicator that Russians have stopped believing in the elections. They stopped hoping that their voice could change anything. The Kremlin, represented by Peskov, believes that the elections, on the contrary, are competitive: “there is pluralism, and there is political competition.” However, the victory of United Russia with 76% of the vote against 11% from the opposition speaks of a monopoly, not competition.
As for low turnout, a painful topic for the Central Election Commission on the eve of the presidential elections, where turnout should be increased to 70%, Pamfilova refused to comment, and member of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation A. Klyukin, in turn, noted that “the turnout is good” in Moscow. Passivity and indifference of society, indifference to the problems of one's own city - is this a good turnout?
The authorities decided to fight the falsifications right away, but not by eliminating them, but by discrediting the very fact of possible falsification, thereby presenting it as a kind of curiosity out of stupidity, and not a political order influencing the course of the elections. The media circulated a case from Pamfilova’s words, when a voter who came said that someone had already voted for him early, but during the proceedings it turned out that the applicant himself cast his vote. The person who voted tried to escape, citing his forgetfulness. With this story, Pamfilova discredited in advance all subsequent stuffing of facts into the media, when a voter’s vote was cast without the participation of the voter himself. She also tried to divert the attention of the media from the facts of violations that observers noted to isolated cases of inappropriate behavior of the observers themselves: the removal of a “drunk as hell” observer from a polling station in the Kaliningrad region, the removal of a Yabloko candidate who had bitten members of the PEC. Pamfilova was not the only one who tried to discredit cases of falsification.
The head of the Moscow City Election Commission announced that the recording posted on the Internet, where the deputy head of the Novo-Peredelkino council discusses with members of district election commissions how to rig elections, is a planned provocation and montage. However, the head of the Novo-Peredelkino council was fired. But how many other such compassionate leaders were there in Russia, whose plans no one ever found out about?
In general, enough violations were identified; the leaders were Moscow, the Saratov region and the Krasnodar region. Typical violations include refusals to allow observers, fake observers, a ban on filming, attempts to register “incomprehensible people without passports,” a large number of applications for ballot boxes, and illegal campaigning. However, according to the CEC, there were no critical violations during the elections. In a word, the Central Election Commission worked like Rosstat - the expected indicators were achieved.
But the Altai Territory distinguished itself most of all, where the level of early voting in the Barnaul Duma is calculated in percentages, while throughout the country it is fractions of a percent. With a turnout of 17%, the level of early voting in the Barnaul Duma was one third. What will the local authorities come up with, whose task is to ensure the victory of the party in power, unpopular among the people, at any cost.
Society is tired of the fact that the outcome of the elections is predetermined and there is virtually no one to vote for, so they naturally vote with their feet - refusing to come to the polls. The turnout at the gubernatorial elections in a number of regions was only a third, or even less, of voters. If we compare it with the elections to the State Duma, although it must be admitted that for regions, gubernatorial elections are more important than elections of deputies to the Duma, then out of 16 regions turnout increased only in two (Perm Territory and Buryatia), and in the rest it fell (Fig. 1) In many ways this is due to the fact that the people are aware that the gubernatorial elections have already been decided, and victory will go to the one appointed by the Kremlin.
Rice. 1. Turnout in the gubernatorial elections in 2017 and in the State Duma elections in 2016.
Russians have lost faith that their vote decides something, that the chosen candidate will certainly fulfill his obligations. Low turnout is still a passive protest. But as you know, in Russia they tolerate it for a long time. But when patience runs out, the Russian revolt occurs. And while the government introduces new levies - resort fees, increases excise taxes on gasoline, plans to introduce a recycling fee on shoes and other “air” taxes, the patience of the impoverished Russian may come to an end.
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On September 10, 2017, the Unified Voting Day, elections at different levels will be held in Russia. What will the turnout be in the upcoming elections and what influences its level? Experts spoke about this at a press conference in Moscow, during which a report from the Foundation for the Study of Democracy was presented with a forecast of turnout in the upcoming gubernatorial elections in Russian regions, FBA reports. "Economy Today" .
Member of the Public Chamber of Russia, director of the Foundation for Research on Democracy Problems Maxim Grigoriev immediately named the regions with the highest turnout. According to him, residents of Saratov, Sevastopol and Belgorod are most active. “In most cases, our preliminary forecast corresponds to forecasts in the regions themselves,” noted Maxim Grigoriev. — It should be noted that, for example, in the mayoral elections of Yekaterinburg in 2013, the presence of Roizman among the candidates did not in any way affect voter turnout. As for the elections in the Kirov region, where the post of governor was held by Nikita Belykh, in 2014, even despite this figure, the turnout was no more than 30%.”
“For Sevastopol, the issue of elections is urgent, because in our city there has never been a popular election of the city governor. Therefore, I agree with the assessment that we fall into the first group in terms of turnout and activity in the gubernatorial elections. Our research shows that we will have a turnout at the elections of more than 40%,” Anatoly Lavrik, a member of the Public Chamber of Sevastopol, a member of the working group “For Fair Elections,” confirmed the forecast.
Another reason for the high predicted turnout for the elections was highlighted by Alexander Brod, a member of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of Russia. He is sure that the economic situation in the region influences the activity of the population: the higher the economic growth, the higher the voter turnout: “Look how much Saransk has changed over the past 15 years. The voter sees development and begins to trust their candidates more.”
At the same time, there are significant shortcomings in the organization of the electoral process. As Igor Borisov, a member of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of Russia, emphasized, “turnout is not an indicator of the legality or, conversely, the conduct of elections. It is a pity that the election commission system has not penetrated the Internet. Therefore, the district level of elections is in limbo. Although there are not a lot of resources for this.”
Borisov emphasized that turnout also depends on how the elections are presented on the Internet. Also, the desire to come and vote depends on the political culture of the region. “Having analyzed several regions, we came to the conclusion that turnout is unique in each region. One can highlight the stable behavior of voters, for example in Khanty-Mansiysk, where the turnout at polling stations is always average.”
In Russia, the Unified Voting Day ended on September 10, during which more than six thousand elections at various levels were held in 82 regions of the country. The last polling stations closed in the Kaliningrad region at 22.00 Moscow time. The turnout throughout Russia, according to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, by 18.00 Moscow time was 28.68 percent.
Context
On this day, elections of regional heads were held in 16 regions of the country. The highest turnout was recorded in Mordovia, where 71.2% of voters came to vote, as well as in the Saratov (52.4%) and Belgorod (47.5%) regions. In other regions where governors were elected, it was below 40%. According to preliminary data, candidates from United Russia are leading in all regions. These are either current regional leaders or recently appointed acting governors.
In a number of cities, municipal elections were held, and voters showed even less activity. The lowest turnout was recorded in Vladivostok, where only 12.7% of residents with the right to vote came to the polling stations.
United Democrats' success
The United Democrats conducted a successful election campaign in Moscow. As of 2 a.m. on September 11, candidates supported by the headquarters received about 190 seats in the municipal authorities of the Russian capital. “About 10 districts where we took the majority, in some we took all the mandates. This is a serious success story that everyone needed. This has never happened in Moscow. Moscow set the tone for all Russian politics, and the main thing is that nothing will end today.” , - the leader of the United Democrats, ex-deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Dmitry Gudkov told Novaya Gazeta.
In Moscow, "turnout is unreasonably underestimated"
In Moscow, where elections to municipal councils of deputies were held, turnout will be 14-15 percent. This was announced by the Chairman of the Moscow City Election Commission Valentin Gorbunov on the night of Monday, September 11. Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova suggested that turnout in the Moscow elections "unreasonably underestimated", in particular, due to the lack of information about the voting location and poor information support in general.
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22:20, 10.09.2017
Medvedev: the September 10 elections were held “at a high level”
“We can testify that the elections - and there were many on this single voting day - took place in our country and were held at a high level,” the Prime Minister said at a conference call with the election headquarters of regional branches of United Russia.
Medvedev noted that “this time the elections were not combined with the federal campaign, but in general this did not affect their quality, and in almost every region our voters showed respect for the elections and quite high activity - somewhere more, somewhere less, but everywhere the elections were held at a good level.”
22:15, 10.09.2017
Moscow. Municipal deputy from Yabloko, Evgeny Kurakin, told Novaya that in Moscow at polling station 667, in a secret room at the precinct where observers were refused entry, books of voters from past elections with sample signatures and passport data were found. After its discovery, the chairman of the Maryina Roshcha TEC tried to destroy the books and disappeared from the building. Kurakin said that a task force was waiting on the spot.
21:54, 10.09.2017
Moscow. Dmitry Gudkov said that it is already known that the headquarters candidates are leading in several polling stations in Khamovniki, Basmanny, Mitino, Pechatniki and in the Presnensky district.
“It’s too early to talk about the results, but the areas where we are ahead are already visible,” says the politician.
21:43, 10.09.2017
Political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin: a common feature of the elections is citizens’ disbelief that something can be changed
A distinctive feature of these elections was the general passivity of the population, which is convenient for the authorities and has no prospects for the country, says political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin.
Moscow. According to the expert, the low turnout strategy worked in the capital. “For Muscovites, the elections turned out to be uninteresting and unimportant,” Oreshkin said. “This does not apply to the controlled electorate (military personnel, activists, pensioners, hospital patients, etc.), whose representatives traditionally vote for the party in power and bring in about 10%.” In conditions of low turnout, these votes become decisive.
According to Oreshkin, “alternative” candidates have chances in the central districts of Moscow, in the Academic, Universitetsky and Gagarinsky districts, as well as along Leningradsky Prospekt.
Regions. Oreshkin said that home-based and early voting will bring about 5% to pro-government candidates, which is a significant percentage in conditions of low turnout. According to him, under “normal conditions” home-based voting is 0.5% of all voters, but in these elections the share of “home-based voters” will be a significant part.
21:16, 10.09.2017
A resident of Lefortovo posted a video of young people in the yard independently filling out ballots for home voting and throwing them into a portable box.
20:53, 10.09.2017Gubernatorial candidates from United Russia are leading in Buryatia, Sverdlovsk and Tomsk regions
- Alexey Tsydenov(Buryatia) - 87.73%
- Evgeniy Kuyvashev(Sverdlovsk region) - 62.02%
- Sergey Zhvachkin(Tomsk region) - 56.94%
20:47, 10.09.2017
Moscow. The head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, said that the majority of complaints about the CEC hotline came from Moscow.
“Across Moscow, 523 requests were received,” Pamfilova said. In the Moscow region -120 messages.
20:05, 10.09.2017
Polling stations in Moscow and other Russian cities have been closed. The average turnout across the country was less than 30%
20:00, 10.09.2017Yaroslavl. In municipal elections, voters were offered 200 rubles per vote. Aleksey Sovin, an activist of the “Russia Chooses” project, who works as an observer at PEC No. 162, told RBC about this.
“Voters told us that in a car parked near school No. 13, where PEC No. 162 is located, they were offering money for voting. It was around 3 p.m.,” he said.
“Information about the car from which voters were bribed was transferred to the police,” he added.
19:52, 10.09.2017
Leningrad region. An observer in Kuzmolovo wrote a statement to the police because of the minibuses that transported voters to the polling station every half hour. This happened after the man talked to a passenger on such a bus.
He asked whether voters themselves rent vehicles. The woman replied that people came to her and asked her to vote for the United Russia candidate Sergei Pavlov in the elections. Observer Svyatoslav Boynov wanted to ask the unknown woman about the details, but she, according to him, got scared and ran away. A member of the IKMO first turned to the chairman of PEC 140. There they explained to him that buses were needed to transport residents who were located just a kilometer from the site. This explanation did not suit Boynov and he turned to the 87th police station.
At another polling station, member of PEC No. 141 Petr Trofimov filmed a drunk voter who came to vote accompanied by a strongly built young man. Trofimov asked the police officer why a man in such a state was allowed to vote, to which he received an unexpected answer: a young woman with the rank of captain explained that “today is a holiday, and there is nothing like that.” She called on the PEC member to be “more positive.”
19:25, 10.09.2017
Moscow. Observers of Gudkov's headquarters report that the General Staff also votes on cameras of PEC 9 on Arbat. Headquarters employees called the CEC hotline, where they were connected to a “competent specialist in this matter.” This specialist said that there is a decision from the Moscow City Election Commission that some recordings from cameras will be of poor quality. But the hotline of the Moscow Electoral Commission said that such a solution is only available where the military votes, and they hung up.
19:19, 10.09.2017The Ministry of Defense reported on the high turnout of the military: they are not forced to vote
Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Pankov RBC that mass military voting in some areas in Moscow occurs without coercion.
“We have places where we are doomed to deliver military personnel en masse; we have no other option. Of course, there are such cases, but such cases are isolated,” he said.
Earlier, Kommersant, citing Evgeniy Khvostik, a member of the election commission in the Moscow Sokolniki district, reported that military personnel were voting en masse at polling station 1272. According to Khvostik, at the station there was an additional list of military men who “went to the same table.”
Former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and journalist Sergei Gulyaev published on Twitter photographs of the National Guard voting in the village of Lebyazhye at polling station 627.
19:24, 10.09.2017New information about turnout in Moscow
The turnout at the municipal elections in Moscow by 18:00 was 12%, said the head of the Moscow City Election Commission, Valentin Gorbunov.
And today five million people came to celebrate City Day in the capital.
19:11, 10.09.2017
Human rights activists ask police to check reports of “service” for drunk voters
The Association for the Protection of Electoral Rights "Civil Control" demands verification of reports that drunk voters are being brought to polling stations in the Ryazan and Irkutsk regions, RIA Novosti reports.
Co-chairman of the association Alexander Brod emphasized that if the information is confirmed “and it is established that these actions were deliberately planned by the candidates,” then human rights activists will “ask the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation to review the voting results, and remove the organizers of these “carousels” from the elections.”
Earlier today, observers reported that in the city of Vikhorevka, “half-drunk” voters are being actively transported to polling stations near school No. 10.
“They settle accounts with voters with vodka. Observers spotted this particular car near the indicated areas,” writes Golos activist Nadezhda Zaitseva.
19:12, 10.09.2017Sevastopol. Members of the French Parliament Thierry Mariani and Nicolas Duic arrived to observe the elections of the city governor. They are both known for their pro-Russian views and calls for the European Union to recognize Russian jurisdiction in Crimea. French parliamentarians visited four polling stations. According to Mariani, elections in Sevastopol “are taking place under normal conditions, they are just as democratic as the others.”
Let us note that both Mariani and Duik are prohibited from entering the territory of Ukraine. Official Kyiv today announced its non-recognition of the elections taking place in Sevastopol.
18:31, 10.09.2017
The Central Election Commission has not yet identified any violations during the elections that could affect their results.
Central Election Commission press secretary Maya Grishina said that the Central Election Commission has not yet seen any violations that could affect the voting results.
“We have had many requests, they cannot be called complaints, they relate to the situation on the ground, that is, what the applicants believe, the violations that they see. Including, we received 318 written complaints on September 9-10, more than half of which were for illegal campaigning on the day of silence. With photographs and leaflets attached,” TASS quotes him as saying.
In some places, according to her, facts were revealed that required decisions by precinct and territorial commissions to recognize the ballots of early voters as invalid.
18:25, 10.09.2017
Astrakhan. Two young people doused the candidate for deputy of the Astrakhan City Duma from the United Russia party, Alexander Tukaev, with green paint. The incident occurred near polling station No. 235. The police are investigating.
According to Tukaev, among the attackers he recognized a representative of the headquarters of another candidate.
On the Unified Voting Day in the Astrakhan region, additional elections of deputies to the regional Duma (in one single-mandate district), the Astrakhan City Duma (in two single-mandate districts) and heads of several municipalities are held.
18:25, 10.09.2017
A criminal case has been opened in the Leningrad region for bribery of voters
In the Leningrad region, a criminal case was opened into bribery of voters at a polling station in Kuzmolovo. It was previously reported that voters were bribed under the guise of concluding agreements to organize observation at the polling station.
18:15, 10.09.2017
Elections in Vladivostok took place with low voter turnout
In the seaside capital, where elections of city council deputies took place on September 10, polling stations have already been closed and vote counting has begun. The first results will be announced on Monday, however, according to preliminary data from the city election commission, the turnout did not exceed 15%.
United Russia is in the lead (about 36%), followed by the LDPR (24%), and in third place is the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (14%), but these data may still undergo serious changes as ballots are counted.
During the “early term”, facts of transportation and bribery of voters were revealed, and law enforcement agencies are now dealing with them. A number of polling stations reported that voters, when they came to vote, discovered that, according to the documents, they had allegedly already made their choice. Alexander Samsonov, a member of the regional election commission with the right to an advisory vote, spoke about the incident at polling station No. 831: during the counting of votes, an as yet unidentified man attacked the representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Olga Samsonova, snatched her phone, which she was using to film the counting process, and threw it out the window.
18:11, 10.09.2017
In Moscow's Airport district, early voting was declared invalid
Moscow. In the Airport district, early voting for municipal elections is invalid. According to the head of the Moscow City Election Commission, Valentin Gorbunov, members of the commission “mixed up the envelopes for some of the polling stations.”
18:02, 10.09.2017
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation accused the United Russia candidate of bribing voters
Novosibirsk region. The Novosibirsk branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation published on its website audio recordings of conversations with people who offered to vote for the candidate for the Legislative Assembly from United Russia, Alexander Boyko, for 250 rubles.
An employee of the headquarters of the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Sergei Klestov called one of the phone numbers of the “buyers” of votes and received instructions on exactly how to proceed to receive the reward.
The buyers demonstrated the agitator's agreement concluded with Alexander Boyko, but, noticing that they were being filmed, they left.
17:55, 10.09.2017Moscow. Open Russia activist Mikhail Konev said that while he was at the territorial election commission of the Donskoy district of Moscow, unknown persons punctured the tires of his car.
17:50, 10.09.2017Sevastopol. Observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation were removed from polling stations No. 132 and No. 134 in the Leninsky district of the city.
As Novaya Gazeta was told at the Communist election headquarters, an observer from the party was removed from polling station No. 132 for filing a complaint against the chairman of the election commission, Nelly Degtyar.
“According to information from our observer, Degtyar went with voters to a separate room, after which they went to the ballot boxes.” Nelly Degtyar herself, in a conversation with a correspondent, said that the observer was removed by a court decision for conducting video recording, including for filming documents with personal data of voters.
At polling station No. 134, an observer from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was also removed due to photographing voter lists. The head of the working group “For Fair Elections” Anatoly Lavrik spoke about this. According to him, the violation on the part of the communist observer was officially recorded, and therefore he will be taken to court.
17:32, 10.09.2017
Yabloko demanded the resignation of the head of the Moscow City Election Commission
The party demands the resignation of the Chairman of the Moscow City Election Commission, Valentin Gorbunov, for deliberately reducing turnout in the elections in Moscow.
“For the first time in the history of the election campaign in Moscow, voters did not receive any official information about the elections. The CEC took care of this a few days before the elections, but it was too late. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin bears political responsibility for the deliberate decrease in turnout, and organizational responsibility lies with IPCC Chairman Valentin Gorbunov. He must resign,” said party deputy chairman Nikolai Rybakov.
17:15, 10.09.2017
The Omsk Election Commission warned about the impending “mass stuffing of ballots”
The chairman of the city election commission, Ivan Khodokov, made an emergency statement. He was prompted to address the public by an anonymous telephone call, about which he also informed higher-level election commissions:
“We have now received an alarming call that a mass stuffing of ballots at polling stations is being prepared. We don't know how to react to this. Maybe this is a joke, maybe a prepared action, maybe a PR stunt to increase turnout in the elections. We informed the CEC that we had received such information. A letter is being prepared that will be sent to precinct election commissions asking them to be extremely careful. I would like to appeal to observers and political parties to be extremely careful. I would like to remind you that this is not only administrative, but also criminal liability. I will be very glad if this is someone's joke, it will not be confirmed. But we cannot help but respond to this information,” he said.
The head of the city election commission did not explain how an anonymous call can increase turnout at elections if, for example, one does not publicly respond to it: he initiated this “PR” (if it is PR) himself.
17:03, 10.09.2017
The candidate for municipal deputy who “bite” members of the PEC spoke about the conflict. He tried to prevent falsifications
Moscow. Vladimir Egorov, a registered candidate from Yabloko for the Council of Deputies of the Dorogomilovo municipal district, said that he tried to prevent election fraud and did not bite anyone.
According to him, individual PEC members wrote down the serial numbers of those who voted according to the list of voters on special sheets in order to control voting for the parties in power among public sector workers.
“When I started photographing the second sheet (with the list with the numbers of voters who voted - approx.), a member of the commission tried to snatch the sheet from me and tore it. I asked to call an operational investigation team to suppress falsifications. But another member of the commission tried to snatch the sheet with the list of voters from me, I grabbed her hand, and she complained that I allegedly bit her,” Egorov told RBC.
Earlier, the head of the Moscow Electoral Commission, Valentin Gorbunov, said that Yabloko bit and beat members of the PEC, for which he was removed from the polling station.
16:56, 10.09.20178.48% of Muscovites came to the elections in Moscow
16:50, 10.09.2017Sevastopol. 100% of voters voted on ships of the Black Sea Fleet. This was announced by Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet Yuri Orekhovsky. We are talking about the frigate "Admiral Essen" and the hydrographic vessel "Equator", which are now in the distant waters of the Black Sea.
According to the Sevastopol City Electoral Commission, voting ballots on ships were prepared by members of election commissions working on them independently, according to layouts transmitted to the ships via technical communication channels.
A high turnout, 95%, was also noted at the Nakhimov School. Among the civilian population, turnout in Sevastopol is 25.3%.
16:33, 10.09.2017
The head of the Moscow Electoral Commission explained the failure of the information campaign for municipal elections
Moscow. The head of the Moscow Electoral Commission, Valentin Gorbunov, said that SMS notifications about the upcoming elections may not have arrived to Muscovites due to the fact that their phones may be registered to other people, for example, to children.
At the same time, according to him, in total more than 2.5 million SMS alerts were sent, although “there are more than 11 million Muscovites.”
“It’s hard for me to talk now. After the elections we will sort it out,” Gorbunov added.
Earlier, the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, announced the failure of the information campaign for municipal elections.
16:31, 10.09.2017
In Perm, for the sake of attendance, they give out movie tickets, conduct excursions and parent meetings
In Perm, some polling stations offer excursions to vote. At a public transport stop near the Kamkabel enterprise there is a group of elderly people. When asked why they had gathered, they answered that they were about to go on an “Orthodoxy” tour of the churches of Perm. People are waiting for a special bus. According to them, four more such buses, for fifty people each, will pick up cable workers from other places.
“Well, like an excursion,” clarifies one participant. “First we’ll vote, and then we’ll have a tour.”
The organizer introduced herself as Galina Bobrova, a social work inspector at the Perm enterprise Kamkabel. According to her, such events take place every week. In her hands she has a pile of papers, on one of the sheets there is a column with school numbers. All these educational institutions have polling stations.
According to the Perm Observer group, Kamkabel today ordered 34 excursions from one of the local travel agencies. Additional buses and guides were sought from other companies.
Also, in one Perm school, primary school students were prescribed diagnostic testing in the morning, which they had to come to with their parents. At an educational institution in the village of Ust-Kachka, Perm region, parent meetings were held in different classes. They invited us to them with entries in diaries, in which they told us to take our passports with us. As eyewitnesses say, after meetings, mothers and fathers were called to the ballot boxes.
In addition, at all Perm polling stations, those under 35 are given flyers that can be exchanged for movie tickets.
16:09, 10.09.2017
Candidates from United Russia are leading in Sevastopol
Sevastopol. The secretary of the city branch of United Russia, Boris Kolesnikov, during a speech at the media center “Election of the Governor of Sevastopol 2017” said that, according to his information, representatives of the ruling party are leading in the elections. “According to data from our observers, representatives of our party are confidently in the lead,” he said. How exactly United Russia observers learned about the leadership of their candidates, Kolesnikov did not specify.
United Russia nominated the current acting head of the city, Dmitry Ovsyannikov, as a candidate for the post of governor of Sevastopol. The head of the Sevastopol branch of Moscow State University, Ivan Kusov, is running for by-elections to the Legislative Assembly from United Russia.
15:54, 10.09.2017
Sverdlovsk region. In Pervouralsk, candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vokhmyakov accused his opponent from the “Patriots of Russia” of bribing voters and filed a police report against him. He claims that his competitor was distributing Nordic walking sticks to local residents.
“They called me and said that Dmitry Andreevsky was giving away some prizes. I understand that this is being done as part of his project “Pervouralsk - City of Champions,” but a fact is a fact,” Vokhmyakov said.
Andreevsky himself told the local publication “Gorodskie Vesti” that he provides equipment for Nordic walking only for the duration of the training under the supervision of a trainer, and after its completion, voters return the poles.
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15:32, 10.09.2017
A self-nominated deputy in Nizhny Tagil was attacked with a tire iron
Nizhny Tagil. Nizhny Tagil City Duma candidate Vyacheslav Goryachkin was attacked by a Gazelle driver who was illegally delivering campaign materials for his competitor, United Russia member Igor Temnov, on election day. Self-nominated candidate Goryachkin approached the bus and two Gazelles, trying to find out by what right they were engaged in illegal campaigning; the driver of one of the Gazelles took out the agreement concluded with Temnov “On the placement of propaganda materials.” But, frightened by the approaching police, the driver jumped into the car and drove away. Goryachkin rushed in pursuit. I caught up with him in the private sector of the city - then the driver came out with a tire iron and began throwing stones at Goryachkin’s car with varying degrees of success. The candidate for deputy filed a statement with the police, and the driver was detained.
Independent candidate Goryachkin, employee of the Nizhny Tagil Metal Structures Plant. Supported by United Russia, Temnov runs the Tagil Tram enterprise. At the moment, Temnov accused Goryachkin himself of illegal campaigning.
14:59, 10.09.2017
“They’ll come again, it’s not evening yet.” Vladimir Putin voted in municipal elections
Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin voted at polling station number 2151 in Moscow, which is located in the building of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Just the day before, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Putin had not yet made a decision whether he would go to the polls or not.
In this area, you can choose from one to three deputies from 18 candidates. In addition to three self-nominated candidates, the list of candidates includes representatives of United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Yabloko party, Rodina, A Just Russia and the Growth Party.
The president told reporters that he studied the candidates' biographies before voting, but that he "didn't really follow" the progress of the election campaign.
“The choice was deliberate,” Putin said, but did not say for whom he cast his vote, noting that “this is secret information.”
Putin also drew attention to the fact that the turnout at the polling station was low, but there were a lot of media representatives, which “is also not bad, the interest of the press in municipal elections is also important,” and residents “will come again, it’s not evening yet.”
14:40, 10.09.201715 thousand people voted early in the elections to the Omsk City Council. The KPFR is confident that this was done under duress
“In the elections to the Omsk City Council, the authorities relied on early voting,” State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Alexander Kravets said at a press conference the day before. According to the regional party committee, many doctors, teachers, government and municipal employees, firefighters and other public sector workers, such as archives, voted forcibly.
“We received messages every day,” regional committee secretary Andrei Alekhin told Novaya, “that state employees are forced to take photographs of ballots with a checkmark in the right place on their phones and then present them to their superiors.”
The Territorial Election Commission for the Soviet District, according to Alekhin, introduced a new interpretation of Article 17 of the Federal Law “On the Basic Guarantees of the Electoral Rights of Citizens of the Russian Federation,” which deals with the procedure for holding elections in places of temporary residence. “Such places include prisons, hospitals, and the TEC equated CHPP - 3, CHPP - 4, TGK - 11, GC Titan (a group of companies producing synthetic rubber, phenol, engaged in biotechnology) to them. This means that either the workers of these enterprises will be brought by bus to polling stations, or members of election commissions will come there with ballot boxes.
In total, according to Andrei Alekhin, 15 thousand people voted early in Omsk. The city election commission reports that 2.5% of voters fulfilled their civic duty before Election Day.
14:33, 10.09.2017
Sverdlovsk region. The Center for Public Observation received a call from a polling station in the Vtorchermet district, on Fergana, 22, that they were allegedly distributing free pies on behalf of the gubernatorial candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Alexei Parfenov. The visit of election commission specialists established that this candidate did not campaign for anyone with pies, and there was no illegal trade.
And another story with pies, but in Yaroslavl: Polling station buffets are seriously competing for the most delicious pies. The hashtag #buffetbattle has appeared online, using which users post photos of baked goods.
14:20, 10.09.2017Moscow is concerned about the abnormal number of people voting at home
Moscow. Dmitry Gudkov on his Facebook page
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