In Russia thousands of suspicions of electoral fraud have already emerged. Independent Russian following the election Golos organization had recorded more than 3,700 suspicions nationwide by Sunday afternoon.
In St. Petersburg, for example, a “carousel” has been reported, in which the same people are brought to the polls time and time again to vote again.
In several polling stations in the city center, observations had been made of voting for the same young men dressed in sportswear.
In the election candidate member of the opposition Jabloko party Boris Vishnevsky wrote about the incident on his social media channels and reported it to the police.
According to him, the men claimed to be students but could not tell about the school. After that, the men had said they were military students, but they had no documents to present.
According to Vishnevsky, police at the polling station had refused to check their passports and said there was no reason to do so, the newspaper said. Kommersant.
Voting place in Moscow.
Town’s according to the election committee, it was not “carousel,” but said the men were actually cadet schoolchildren.
Student magazine under the election Doxa reported how social media groups at St. Petersburg State University had searched for students for election fraud.
Students had been enticed as “election observers” as well as voting for a “specific candidate” at several polling stations during the day. The reward for three days of work was promised 15,000 rubles.
Of St. Petersburg Fontanka news site according to several polling stations in the city had been busy the night before Sunday, when election workers had appeared at work at night. Videos of the night work have been published.
At one polling station, representatives of the Just Russia party had spotted movement in the surveillance camera and came to see what it was all about.
According to Fontanka, an employee of the election commission had been found on the spot in front of the ballot papers in front of him. The employee had said he remembered the error and had come to fix it at night.
In advance, the three-day election was feared to increase tampering with the election result at night.
European the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has not sent international election observers to the Duma elections because Russia wanted to limit the number of its observers and appealed to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Russian election observation organization Golos, for its part, was declared an “agent of foreign powers” in August, but has continued to operate by reporting violations.
Russian according to the Central Election Commission, by Sunday morning, about 35.7 percent of citizens had exercised their right to vote.
Turnout has been weakest in St. Petersburg and the Yaroslavl region in central Russia. In St. Petersburg, only about a fifth had gone to the polls.
In Russia, elections are being held for the first time on three days. Sunday is the last day of voting.
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