The Deputy Chairman of CEC called unprofessional statements about high turnout in the presidential elections
MOSCOW, June 4. /TASS/ — Earlier media reported that in 50 polling stations in Tatarstan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria, the results of the elections were allegedly rigged.
Deputy Chairman of the Central election Commission of Russia Nikolay Bulaev called unprofessional approach to the electoral process observers, who declared the falsification of data on voter turnout in a number of areas in the elections of the President of the Russian Federation on March 18.
“Novaya Gazeta” published earlier material, which claims that in 50 polling stations in Tatarstan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria, the election results were rigged.
This conclusion the authors made on the basis of observers-volunteers, who were watching the security footage from the areas, believed people opustevshij the ballot boxes, and compared their number with the official data of election commissions entered in gas “Vybory”. The publication States that within the studied sections “the actual turnout of two, three, and sometimes five times lower”.
Federal law describes the procedure for determining the number of voters at the polling station. There are no other opportunities for this besides what is written in the law.Nicholas Believableness of the Central election Commission of the Russian Federation
In his opinion, the use given in the article numbers and the belief in their authenticity is “not a very professional attitude towards the electoral process.” He recalled that all polling stations on March 18, the observers were “quite possible, and colleagues of those who now consider [voter videorecording]”.
“If this polling station had complaints, let’s get back to this question and view. If they were not, and now, after a few months people are trying to interpret in their own way the election results or the number of voters, in my opinion, it is at least unprofessional,” concluded the Deputy Chairman of the CEC.
Presidential elections took place on March 18, according to their results, with a turnout of 67.5% for the highest post of the country was re-elected Vladimir Putin. He scored 76,69% of the vote.