To: the Moscow Electoral Commission
From: members of the Moscow Electoral Commission Valery S.
Goryachev and Ludmila V. Sinelschikova
Dissenting Opinion
To the protocol of the Moscow Electoral Commission
on the results of the voting for the candidates to deputies
of the Moscow City Duma of the 5th convocation
in the Moscow electoral district
on October 11, 2009
We are expressing our dissenting opinion with the results
of the election to the Moscow City Duma in the Moscow electoral
district. Multiple violations detected during voting and calculation
of the votes make it impossible to assess the results of the
election.
The following violations were detected during voting:
- multiple cases of groundless disqualification of members
of electoral commissions and groundless exemption of observers
representing oppositional parties from the polling stations;
- infringement of candidates’ rights, in particular, ousting
them from the polling stations and not letting them to observe
calculation of the votes;
- faking of voters’ signatures and unlawful distribution of
bulletins;
- “throwing-in” of bulletins, voting by persons not included
into the voters lists;
- refusal of electoral commissions to deal with complaints
(for example, electoral commissions from polling stations
¹¹ 40, 123, 127, 291, 487,762, 869, 1306, 1533, 1701, 1919,
1928, 2005);
- protocols submitted by local electoral commissions to the
territorial electoral commissions diverged from the signed
copies of protocols given to observers (for example, local
electoral commissions ¹¹ 150, 187, 200, 207, 291, 323, 324,
423, 436, 689, 714, 732, 1083, 1162, 1186, 1201, 1323, 399,
1532, 1522, 887, 888, 399, 401, 404, 1528, 1701, 762, 127,
2000, 1957, 1192, 869, 1927, 1715, 120, 1213, 1791);
- mass-scale refusals by chairs of local electoral commissions
to give lawful demand of the observers the copies of final
protocols right after calculation;
- handing to the observers copies of protocols drawn with
violation of the law (for example, without indication of the
date and time of signing of the copy, or the person signing
the copy, or giving unsigned copies to the observers);
- violation of the procedure of drawing of final protocols
of the voting, drawing of protocols with violation of the
present laws.
The indicated violations can result in annulment of the results
of the voting, as such violations do not allow to accurately
determine the results of expression of the voters’ will.
We assume, that the procedure of drawing up of the results
of the voting in the Moscow electoral district can not be
considered finished, as a range of complaints of violation
of the election law, both during voting and calculation of
the votes, received by the Moscow Electoral Commission was
not examined by the said commission.
In addition we would like to draw attention to the
following:
– multiple violations of the principle of equality of rights
of the candidates and electoral blocs during campaigning at
television and radio channels and printed media;
– violation of the rights of election blocs regarding their
free choice of the forms and methods of campaigning;
– creation of obstacles in campaigning for the CPRF and the
YABLOKO party;
– abuse of candidates from the United Russia party of their
posts.
Valery S. Goryachev
Ludmila V. Sinelschikova
See also:
The original
at the Moscow YABLOKO web-site
Elections
to the Moscow City Duma, 2009
Election
fraud at the Moscow City Duma elections. From the Live Journal
of Igor Yakovlev, Press Secretary of the YABLOKO party
Violations
at the Moscow City Duma elections. Press Release. October
12, 2009
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