Press Release, 24.09.2020

Photo: A polling station in the village of Kamenskoye, the city of Chernyakhovsk

On Monday, September 21, Nikolai Zyuzin, candidate from the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko in constituency No. 18, filed a lawsuit with the Chernyakhovsky City Court to declare protocol of the electoral commission on the results of voting at one of three precincts – in the village of Kamenskoye, the city of Chernyakhovs – null and void. A discrepancy was recorded in this precinct on a single voting day, September 13: the number of ballots issued to voters exceeded the number of ballots issued by the territorial electoral commission.  This gives a legal basis to challenge the results of voting in this precinct in particular and in the district as a whole.

On Tuesday, 22 September, a similar claim was filed with the Zelenogradskiy District Court from the regional branch of the Yabloko party. Similar anomalies in the protocols of voting results were already recorded at five polling stations in the city of Zelenogradsk.

It should be noted that the discrepancies indicated in the claim can be seen on the official website of the Regional Electoral Commission of the Kaliningrad Region in the urban disctirct of Zelenogradsk.

The regional branch of the Yabloko party will additionally inform about the acceptance of claims for consideration and the dates of court hearings.

Elections of deputies of the cities of Sovietsk, Chernyakhovsk, Zelenogradsk, Gvardeysk, Baltiysk, Polessk, Slavsk and Ladushkin took place in the Kaliningrad region on 13 September. Yabloko candidates took part in municipal elections in the region. The Kaliningrad branch of the party believes that the election results in the Zelenogradsk urban district should be annulled.