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Rosbalt, December 11, 2003

Sergei Mitrokhin demands annulment of the voting results in the Babushinsky electoral district of Moscow

Moscow, December 11, 2003. On December 10, 2003, Deputy Head of the YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded a complaint to the Central Electoral Commission on the decision of district electoral commission No 192 of Moscow (Babushinsky electoral district of Moscow) to declare the candidate from United Russia party Sergei Shirokov as winner of the election. The press service of the YABLOKO party informed Rosbalt that "this decision is unlawful, as we noted serious violations in the counting of the votes cast for the candidates." According to Mitrokhin, "YABLOKO's representatives managed to detect falsification of the results of the election in the Yaroslavsky, Babushinsky and Butirsky districts."

Mitrokhin also stressed that the first results obtained after the closing of the electoral districts at 20.00 on December 7 demonstrated that he was the leader. However, soon after this YABLOKO began receiving signals from electoral districts that the counting of the votes had been stopped and uncounted ballots had been forwarded to the territorial electoral commissions. In addition, information was disclosed by the territorial electoral commission Yaroslavsky that bulletins from electoral districts had been received unpacked and had been taken from the premises of the territorial commission to a separate room, where they were beyond the control of the members of the electoral commission and observers. The same information, noted Mitrokhin, was also received from Butirsky territorial commission.

"After we received the signals on these multiple violations, the commission began releasing information that Shirokov was the leader of the election, noted Mitrokhin. - YABLOKO thinks that the results of the election were falsified and should be annulled, and that a new vote should be carried out."

If the Central Electoral Commission declines his complaint, Mitrokhin will go to court to demand the annulment of the results of the voting.

 

See also:

State Duma elections 2003

Rosbalt, December 11, 2003

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