YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has sent the first complaint
on violations in regional and municipal elections to Vladimir
Churov, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, and Yury
Chaika, Public Prosecutor General, demanding to examine the
violations identified by observers and candidates of the YABLOKO
during elections in 11 subjects of the Russian Federation
and punish the vote riggers.
The complaint contains information about the most serious
violations in 28 polling stations, such as ballot stuffing,
"carousel" voting, withdrawing of observers from
the polling stations, buying of votes, etc.
The complaint refers to violations in regional elections in
the Krasnodar Territory and municipal elections in the Maritime
Altai territories, Bryansk, Ryazan, Irkutsk, Saratov, Tula,
Moscow and Yaroslavl regions.
In addition, the document runs that observers from non-administrative
candidates and parties were not let to over half of the polling
stations in Tatarstan under a pretext that their papers lacked
some stamps.
YABLOKO leader demands from the heads of the Central Electoral
Commission and Public Prosecutor Generals Office to check
the information provided in the case it is confirmed to bring
the perpetrators to civil and criminal liability.
See also:
YABLOKO
in the regional and municipal elections on October 14, 2012.
Press Release, October 12, 2012.
Regional
and Local Elections 2012
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