The Moscow City Court overruled the decision of Kuntsevsky
District Court and declared removal of Aslan Artsuyev, member
of electoral commission from the YABLOKO party with a deliberative
vote, from polling station 2451.
Aslan Artsuyev worked at the parliamentary elections and
was member of the PEC 2451 with a deliberative vote, was
removed from the polling station 15 minutes before its closure.
On December 14, Judge Mareyeva considered the Artsuyevs
suit and acknowledged the commission's decision on his removal
lawful.
According to this judgment Artsuev was removed from the polling
station for "performing photo and video recording of
PEC members and voters in the absence of expression of consent
by the latter and also campaigned for the YABLOKO party and
behaved improperly in relation to the commission members."
Thus, witness Titova accused him of "pacing around the
room along polling boxes and voting booths," and "refusal
to bring ballot boxes to the flats of the disablied."
Aslan Artsuev insisted that the law did not stipulate for
a removal of a commission member with a deliberative vote
from the polling station. However, the district court decided
that these "arguments could not be taken into account."
At the same time the court stated that Artsuyevs removal
from the polling station did not limit his other rights as
a commission member
It should be noted that in addition to Artsuev four other
people were removed from the polling station: a commission
member with a deliberative vote, an observer from the Communist
Party and two journalists. Only commission members from the
Communist Party and YABLOKO with a decisive vote (who can
not be removed by law) managed to remain in the commission.
According to Artsuyev, the commission decided to allocate
a special table for commission members from these opposition
parties so that they would observe counting of the votes from
a distance of 10 meters away from the commission members counting
votes.
On Friday, February 10, the Moscow City Court will examine
another appeal against the decision of the Kuzminsky Court
which upheld the removal of Valentina Titova, a Communist
Party observer, from polling station No 1523.
The main evidence underlying the decision of the court were
statements made by two commission members that Titova had
allegedly "interfered with the commission's work, walked
about the polling station, as well as had given advice on
the commission work. This was the reason for her removal.
The trial will begin in Room 613 at 12:00.
YABLOKOs volunteer lawyers will represent Titovas interests
in the court.
See also:
State Duma
Elections 2011
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