Counting of votes at parliamentary elections in Tula goes
on. According to the preliminary data YABLOKO obtains 13
per cent of the votes which means three or four mandates
in the city parliament. At the same time observers have
fixed multiple violations.
Thus, abnormally high voting outside the polling station
was observed at electoral district No 421. About 400 people
referring to this district voted at home. YABLOKO’s observer
Olga Ushakova lodged a complaint so that the results of
the voting at this electoral district should be recognised
void. The electoral commission insisted on counting these
400 votes and threatened to expel her from the polling station.
A grave violation was fixed at electoral district No 445:
the chair of the electoral commission refused to satisfy
observer’s complaint and demand to count votes cast during
pre-term voting by hand.
Electoral commission of electoral district No 528 stamped
invalid bulletins as valid, and commission of polling station
No 453 refused to show the documents on the voting to the
observers.
Representatives of electoral commission No 556 visited
all the cottages referring to the district, whereas none
of these voters notified the commission of an intention
to vote at home. The same situation developed at electoral
district No 494: the commission members visited all the
households there.
Polling station No 390 demonstrated that about half of
all the notifications of voting at home (totaling 89) was
received in a single pool at 10 a.m.
Planning of three polling stations No 558 and 559 and 553
violates the requirements envisaged by the law: registration
and voting takes place in different premises there.
Voting of other persons was observed at polling station
No 482. Thus, one voter complained that the name of his
relative living with him in the same flat had been marked
as voted by absentee ballot. He applied to the police. YABLOKO
will closely follow this case so that a criminal persecution
would not be curbed.
Progovernmental United Russia party continued brining of
the electorate. Unknown persons were distributing bottles
of vodka at Zhukova street (between houses No 14 and 14b)
calling to support the party of the power.
A representative of the LDPR party was distributing propaganda
leaflets at electoral district No 377 on the election day.
He was detained by police.
See also:
Regional
and Local Elections 2010
Progovernmental
United Russia is buying off votes in Tula. Statement by
the party Chairman. March 12, 2010
Mass-scale buying of votes
in favour of the United Russia and the Just Russia party
observed at pre-term elections in Tula. Press Release, March
10, 2010
