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Mathematics of the elections
Politics does not apply to the main areas that are designed to cover the Trinity Option. The newspaper has completely different points of application of forces, such as enlightenment, the fight against ignorance and obscurantism. However, politics often invades these areas with its dirty shoes, lies and ignorance. Naturally, these cases are the subject of our meticulous analysis.
“The calls to change the procedures provided for by law can be considered as the commission of actions that fall under the signs of a crime is the obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights or the work of election commissions, since these calls impede the activities of election commissions to summarize the voting results and determine the results.”
Vladimir Churov,
Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation (ITAR-TASS)“People, having heard about some unusual phenomenon, begin to offer low-right hypotheses for their explanation. First of all, consider the simplest explanation - that all this is a lie. ”
Lev Landau
(according to B. L. Ioffe, "without retouching. Portraits of physicists against the background of the era")
This is the case of the elections of recent years, and from year the results look more and more egregious. It is enough for a person who has at least a general idea of statistics and has common sense to look at the schedule in the center of this page to understand: in the elections of this year in Moscow there was a massly shameless falsification (more than two -thirds of the sites), and in some sections the falsification was monstrous. At the same time, officials, without blinking an eye, say that the elections were honest, and all the doubts about this - to the hands of the enemies. Of course, these same officials understand that not only educated people, but also a huge number of ordinary people do not believe them. It would be nice for them to get the support of titled scientists - so that there was something to shut up all sorts of mathematicians, biologists and physicists there, by the nature of the activity of well -known statistics and make the CEC. Apparently, it was precisely for this that Vladimir Churov turned to the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, speaking there with a report “Electoral process: theory, practice and scientific cooperation”.
The speaker did not receive an enthusiastic response to the honor of the members of the Presidium. When discussing the report, Academician Alexander Dmitrievich Nekipelov said that “the report defines very interesting directions of cooperation from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the sphere that organize an elected system in the country. In just 15 years, a lot of work has been done and impressive results have been achieved. There is a problem of trust in the Institute of Elections. A lot is done in this direction, but all these actions do not convince too much. For example, in Moscow at about 16.00 there was a 5%turnout, and by the end of the vote - about 35%. The Institute of Election is unusually important in the conditions of a democratic system. In this regard, the role of social sciences is very important. Vladimir Evgenievich and his colleagues do a lot to raise the institution of elections to the proper height. I would like to follow further contacts with representatives of social sciences in order to determine the specific topics of our cooperation. ”
President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Yuri Sergeyevich Osipov, thanked the author of the report and said that “there is an institution in the structure of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which is developing a high degree of information protection system. RAS is related to the development of the GLONASS system, here we can also help you. In order to increase the level of trust in the population, it is necessary to attract highly educated sociologists and statistics. ”
VTsIOM General Director Valery Fedorov in the comment of ER.ru on Saturday noticed that the term “complex mathematical calculations” already looks unconvincing, since the method used by researchers has not been disclosed.
“This is into the hands of those forces who want to destabilize the situation in Russia who want to put Russia on their knees.”
Boris Gryzlov,
Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (Polit.ru)“No mathematicians with their models climb into politics, analyze the elections, and invent some of their versions. It's just funny when a mathematician discusses the election. Let's ask another biologist! Or we will find out what the physicist-nuclear person thinks about the results of the elections! ”
Official website of the party "United Russia"
Vitaly Ivanov,
Vice-President of the Center for the Political Conjuncture of Russia (Polit.ru)
Following the instructions of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the TRV publishes the article by mathematician Sergei Spilkin on the statistical analysis of the election results.