The state Duma rejected in the first reading the bill about inclusion of the column “against all” to ballots on elections of all levels. About it reports on Friday, 11 November, the Agency urban news “Moscow”.
“The citizen has the right to decide how to participate in elections as a voter and not to participate in elections in General,” — said in the conclusion of Committee on state construction and the legislation of the lower house of Parliament.
According to legislators, such a graph may lead to the recognition of certain elections failed “and needed a second, which would entail expenditure of additional budgetary funds”.
The bill for the consideration of the lower house of the Parliament made a Deputy from the liberal democratic party Margaret Sverkunova during the work of the state Duma of the sixth convocation.
1 November all-Russia centre of studying of public opinion (VTSIOM) has published results of a poll in which 45 percent of respondents are ready to support the return of the column “against all”.
Two years ago the President of Russia Vladimir Putin returned to this column on the ballot in municipal elections.
In the USSR the opportunity to vote “against all” came in 1989: the special column was not, but the voters could cross out all the candidates from the ballot. The corresponding line appeared in 1993 on elections to the state Duma. In 2006, this rule was cancelled.