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Court refused to satisfy YABLOKO’s suit on cancellation of the results of the voting at two Moscow electoral districts

Press Release
February 18, 2010

 

Simonovsky District Court, Moscow, refused to satisfy YABLOKO’s suit on cancellation of the results of the voting at two Moscow electoral districts, where progovernmental United Russia obtained 231 additional votes via fraud.

The judge chose to conduct hearings in the absence of YABLOKO’s representative. She also prohibited journalist from the Kommersant-Vlast paper to take notes during the process.

YABLOKO’s arguments based on a considerable discrepancy between the protocols given to the observers on the election day October 11, 2009, and the official results of the voting. Thus 96 votes were taken LDPR, Just Russia and Patriots of Russia and added to the United Russia party. The chair of this electoral commission explained this by an error. “Provisional” protocols where figures represented a mere “guess work” were allegedly given to the observers, however, later the mistake was detected and amended. However, the chair of the commission failed to explain how this “guess work” managed to virtually coincide with the real results of the voting, especially in case of YABLOKO and CPRF.

Chair of the commission No 1701 also stated that he had “noticed a mistake” in the protocols after the observers receiving such copies were already gone, however, he had recounted the votes. During such recounting United Russia obtained 135 votes and YABLOKO, the CPRF, Just Russia and the Patriots of Russia lost 135 votes. Voters turnout also unexpectedly grew after the recounting.

Despite the obvious violation of the provisions of article 68 of the law “On the Basic Guarantees of Franchise” envisaging that protocols should be given to the observers only after they are signed, the judge refused to satisfy YABLOKO’s suit.

YABLOKO will appeal this decision in the Moscow City Court.

 

See also:

Moscow City Duma Elections, 2009

A trial on the fraud at the electoral districts where over 1,000 votes were stuffed for the United Russia party began. Press Release, November 26, 2009

On non-recognition of the results of the elections of October 11, 2009, and the need to investigate cases of franchise violations. Statement of the Bureau of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO.
October 19, 2009

Election fraud at the Moscow City Duma elections. From the Live Journal of Igor Yakovlev, Press Secretary of the YABLOKO party

Violations at the Moscow City Duma elections. Press Release. October 12, 2009

 

 

 

Press Release

February 18, 2010