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In the Belgorod region, a criminal case has been instituted against the chairman of the PEC of the polling station No. 1198 of the Yakovlevsky district in connection with falsifications in the elections to the State Duma. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the TFR.

"The chairman of the precinct election commission No. 1198, together with other unidentified persons, stuffed the ballots into the urns for voting. The results of the elections in this polling station were canceled by the election commission of the region," the report said. The case was opened under Article 142.1 of the Criminal Code (falsification of voting results), the maximum punishment of which is four years of imprisonment.

The day before, the head of the CEC of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova said that the prosecutor’s office was checking in connection with the fact of the filter of ballots recorded on the video. "According to the election commission of the Belgorod region, on September 18, at about 19:50, at the polling station number 1198, the members of the precinct election commission, taking advantage of the absence of observers in the voting room, stuffed the ballots into a stationary ballot box. One of the observers, leaving the room, left the mobile phone camera, and the whole process was recorded on the video," said the whole process, "said it Pampilova. - Later, when watching a video on his phone, the observer discovered this record and immediately handed it to the prosecutor. From the prosecutor’s office, this information was received by the election commission of the Belgorod region. ”

The election commission of the Yakovlevsky municipal district canceled the voting results in the section No. 1198.

"Clean Elections" September 18

On a single voting day , many violations were recorded on September 18. As of 20:25 Moscow time, the project "A map of election violations" placed information about 3250 violations both in Russia and in areas abroad. Observers reported, in particular, about carousels, stuffing, agitation, which cannot be conducted on the law on the law, bribery, using opaque or unprintable urns.