Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg want to allow members of the "SVO" to conceal information about their income and place of residence when running for election.
Relevant bill has prepared a group of United Russia deputies Vsevolod Belikov, Konstantin Chebykin and Denis ChetyrbokThey propose the following procedure: when submitting documents to participate in the elections, "SVO" participants will be able to refrain from disclosing their place of residence to the electoral commission. They must provide information about their own income and that of their family members, but this information will not be published on information boards at polling stations.
According to the authors of the bill, disclosure of information about such candidates can do They and their family members are “priority targets for fraudsters,” including those acting in the interests of unfriendly countries.
As one of the bill's authors, Denis Chetyrbok, explained, all commission members currently have access to a candidate's place of residence—it's possible that one of them could use this information for malicious purposes.
"It should also be noted that the powers of certain members of election commissions were previously terminated due to their designation as foreign agents. The possibility that certain election commissions may include individuals who are effectively under foreign influence but who are not included in the register of foreign agents cannot be completely ruled out.", — the explanatory note to the document says.