"Carousels", bribery and coercion to the music of "Village of Fools": how elections are held in the regions
🔸 Perhaps the most vivid report on preparations for the Unified Voting Day опубликовал Novosibirsk regional election commission: he shared a video that was filmed by members of polling station No. 740 (this is a school in a workers' settlement) Maslyanino).
The two-minute video is accompanied by a melody from the comedy show "Village of Fools." It shows members of the precinct election commission moving tables, setting up secret voting booths and secretly eating bagels in them, playing ball, fighting with sticks, and gagging each other with tape. As the saying goes, whatever the precinct election commission does, as long as it doesn't engage in fraud.
🔸 Meanwhile, observers in the very Novosibirsk They complain about the mass transportation of voters and "carousel voters." And the city council deputy Georgy Andreev saidthat in one of the districts, "young men in Mercedes are pestering residents," offering money or food in exchange for a vote for a United Russia candidate.
To this the head of the regional election commission Olga Blago She replied that “there are no excesses that require intervention; no complaints have been received.”
🔸 In Irkutsk region Mayor Chunsky district Nikolay Khrychov объявил "a no-lose quiz," promising to give away 60 trucks of firewood among the voters who came (20 winners have already been determined by the end of the first day).
"Winter is coming, don't miss out on this awesome prize that will save you money," Khrychov called.
🔸 Mayor Belgorod Valentin Demidov called on residents to go to the polls despite ongoing drone strikes.
“For the third day in a row, the massive attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces are aimed at one goal – to intimidate people and destabilize the situation in the city,” the mayor stated. "But Belgorod is a city of strong people! Your vote in the current circumstances is more than just a ballot. It's an act of civic responsibility and courage."
He emphasized that all polling stations in the city are “equipped with shelters and first aid kits, and the commissions have received the necessary training.”
🔸 Unusual reports are being required from members of the precinct election commission. For example, the head of the territorial election commission in Perm Ekaterina Patsukova obliged She says the plan is to have her subordinates collect 2,4 applications for home voting. And if it's not met, Patsyukova will simply be fired.
According to observers, home voting is one way to falsify election results (it is easier to stuff the ballots outside the polling station).
