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Elections with eyes widely closed. On December 4, United Russia would have gained 30–35%, if not for mass stuffing and falsification, experts say. How the party of power was drawn - the New Times sorted out
“I did not expect to see any other observers on the site, I thought I would be one. But there were still 8 people there. I was surprised, these were not marginals or demrice, ”says Zimin,“ and ordinary people who are just tired of everything. ” In the afternoon, Boris became a witness to the open and arrogant falsification: in front of all observers, Zimin tells, men approached the urns, they did not appear in any way, and ballots were thrown directly in packs. At least 3 packs of 60 ballots - all for United Russia. Together with the 20-year-old Igor Danilov, an observer from the Communist Party, Zimin tried to force the chairman of the precinct election commission (PEC) Alexander Sivaev to record these violations. But the chairman, part -time deputy director of the Sokol family of the Family Social Assistance Center (TsSPS), enlisted the support of most members of the commission, refused to stop the stuffing. Of the 15 members of the precinct commission, 9 were employees of the Central Executive Committee, two more - employees of the district council. As a result, Zimin was almost fighting with Sivaev, but the majority remained deaf to his arguments: they did not see anything, and therefore refused to fix the violations. “Formally, they did everything according to the law, simply turned a blind eye to fraud, you won’t dig up to them,” Zimin is now indignant. - In my area, EP at best scored 16%, and how to prove now 600 ballots? ” Exactly so much, Zimin believes, judging by the final protocols, was thrown into the urns for voting on this site. Zimin hopes to bring the perpetrators to criminal liability: Danilov, who took his side, wrote as a member of the commission with a decisive vote, a complaint: “I think that a stuffing was carried out to which all members of the commission defiantly did not pay attention.” 
Commissars
However, it is clear why members of election commissions rarely allowed themselves to object. According to the observation of Igor Mintusov, the chairman of the Niccolo M Center for Political Consulting, the main in the sites were not even the chairmen of election commissions - observers (or, more correctly, commissars) from United Russia. This is how he describes this in a letter in The New Times: “On the morning of December 4, I came to polling station No. 153, located in a regular school in the city of Moscow. Entering the voting room and barely pulling out my camera, I heard screams from several ends of the room at once: "It is forbidden to photograph." “And call here the chairman of the weekend,” I said proudly, armed with knowledge of the special resolution of the CEC of August 17, 2011, allowing all citizens to shoot. The chairman of the precinct election commission of Ms., more precisely, comrade I.N. Kurlylykova, immediately approached me. And, smiling slightly, I invited me to go into the next room to “talk” / ... / She closes the door behind me, and I am amazed to find that I remain in the room together with a man unfamiliar to me. We sit down against each other, and the man politely begins to be interested in the birth of my classes and the goals of photography. In response to this, I politely begin to be interested in who I have the honor to talk. A man shows me a document and ... my amazement has no limit. On it, I read: “The observer from the United Russia party in polling station No. 153 Korsakov Dmitry Vladimirovich.” To photograph the Min -Tusov, by the way, working in the elections as a political strategist since 1991, has not been given.
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On December 4, Alisa Ivanitskaya watched the voting progress on the site No. 114, opened in Moscow school No. 1379 at the Earth Val. The vote went honestly, the observers did not fix the stuffing, after the closure of the site and the counting of the votes, it turned out that the United Russia took 2nd place with 389 votes. The Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party - 403 votes, decently gained Yabloko and Fair Russia - 320 and 222 votes, respectively. The chairman of the weekend Non Schenshin recorded the results, called someone on the phone and reported that the protocols would soon be taken to the TIC. However, the unknown interlocutor Shenshina did not suit these data, and the head of the site rewrote the protocol right on the spot: “United Russia” took 1st place, “receiving” as much as 675 votes, the result of the Communists also improved several votes, and the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Yabellons lost 100 votes. To the amazement of Ivanitskaya, none of the members of the commission said a word, and she herself even formally had the right to object to anything. This method of falsification for Moscow is atypical - in the vast majority of cases, changes to the protocols drawn up in the areas were made already in territorial election commissions, before sending numbers to GAS * > “Elections”. To understand how an important role Tiki played in the victory of United Russia, two digits are enough: if in Moscow as a whole, EP gained 46.6%, then in the areas equipped with coes ** * a state automated system.
** A complex of processing of ballots., Where the protocols under the supervision of observers were directly loaded into the system - only 29.4%.
The neighbor is to blame
It was with this that the editor -in -chief of the newspaper My District, Dmitry Surnin, who watched the elections in section No. 1701 in the Danilovsky district of Moscow. Here, after counting the votes, the situation was also not in favor of the party in power: the Communist Party scored 285 votes, “United Russia” - 271, Wed - 218, “Yabloko” - 167. Observers recorded this result, without incidents they signed protocols and sent them to the district tic. Surnin, with a sense of fulfillment, went to the side, and in the morning on the website of the Central Election Commission, he was surprised to find that 662 people were thrown on his section of United Russia, that is, almost 41% more than was recorded in the final Protocol of the PEC No. 1701. A little - 10 votes and communists, but the parties of Sergei Mironov and Grigory. Yavlinsky again took exactly 100 ballots. “From the source in the council, I found out how it was,” said Surnin The New Times. - When the ballots from the PEC are brought to the territorial election commission, the data is first entered in the consolidated table in the area, and then the generalized data is entered into the “Elections” system. The TIK Danilovsky district was on the 1st floor of the building of the council of the same area. On the 2nd floor-the office of the head of the administration of Oleg Vorona. The heads of the WIKs were sent to him first, in his office a protocol was rewritten, and then they were lowered to the TIC, where they entered the correct data to the consolidated table, and then sent them to the CEC. ” Surnin also has a video of these cute gatherings at the head of the council, and witnesses who are ready to testify in court: “There are 29 sites in our district, only 5 of them did not rewrite - there the data on the CEC website coincides with the data that are recorded following the results of the vote count. The results of voting in 24 sites were corrected: thus, somewhere the result of United Russia grew from 24% to 50%, somewhere from 40% to 64%. I heard how the percentage of EP used to be improved due to an artificial increase in turnout, this time this was not - they simply redistributed voices from other parties. ” Political scientist Mikhail Tula believes that a minor dorisovka to other parties was where it was necessary to silence the PEC member from this party: “In St. Petersburg, for example, they almost did not offend the LDPR, the Communist Party was slightly finished - this is the form of bribing of the opposition from United Russia. 
A similar technology was used in the very center of Moscow, for example, in the area No. 6 in the Arbat area, where the famous artist Vladimir Vinokur voted. Dmitry Popnikov, a 42-year-old businessman, who watched here the vote from the Yabloko party, says that until the last he was sure that the elections would be cleaned: the chairman of the election commission diligently corrected all the defects, there were no stuffing. The result is “United Russia” in 3rd place with 128 votes. The Party of power bypassed both the Communist Party (202) and the Yabloko (134), the “fair Russia” was a little behind-113 ballots. However, after drawing up the final protocol, the Chairman of the PEC Valentin Solbas refused to give to observers and simply escaped from the site. Already in Tik in the consolidated table of the results of the dates of dates, he saw that 515 votes are on his site for the party, that is, 387 more votes: Yabloko stole 130 votes, the Communists-173. The New Times found Finikov in the territorial-chosen commission: “I have not been able to ensure that I have not been given a copy Protocol, ”he said. - I was already supported by other members of our election commission. Each crime has a specific name and patronymic, and I intend to ensure that the head of our TIC is removed from his post, and ideally, they are also condemned for this crime. ” By the way, Finikova was unexpectedly supported by the former head of the presidential administration, Alexander Voloshin: on his Twitter, he hung a link to the observer’s blog, called what happened to the “grave crime” and hastened to reduce the degree of polemics: “If your voice was stolen in the elections, then Medvedev and Putin did this, but your entrance neighbor, which is part of the district election commission.” However, President Dmitry Medvedev and the head of the CEC Vladimir Churov of the indignation of the former head of the AP did not share. The President said that he watched several videos about the falsifications laid out by users on YouTube, but did not find anything criminal on them: "There is nothing to be visible there." Churov told that the videos were shot at the “false election committees”, and asked the special services to find “customers and sponsors”: “In the near future, the corresponding appeals to the Investigative Committee and other competent authorities will be prepared and sent ... If there are signs of provocations and fakes and the authors and executors of obviously focused materials, their customers and sponsors are established - we are identified. We will seek their punishment. ” And the main ideologist of United Russia, the first deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov, admitted that there were tackles, but "not on an industrial scale." 
On December 8, both the President and the head of the CEC softened their rhetoric and retreated to the position of Surkov - apparently, in anticipation of the Saturday of the thousands of thousands.
How many counted
On December 4, long -dead citizens also managed to vote for United Russia - several such cases were marked by observers in Yekaterinburg, the deputy of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg Leonid Volkov told The New Times: “But these were so -so -scale cases, large -scale falsifications in Yekaterinburg. On the one hand, because we managed to create effective observation on the voting day. On the other hand, in the region there is a conflict between the city authorities and the regional, so the city, through the sleeves, performed party attitudes. As a result, United Russia gained as much as it was supposed to get - 25.6%. ”
According to the estimates of Mikhail Tula, on average in the country, after the redistribution of bulletins in favor of United Russia, the results of the Communist Party and Fair Russia decreased by each batch by 6–7%, the LDPR lost 3-4%, “Yabloko”-1-2%, and about 1%was thrown at the expense of other parties and invalid ballots.
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On December 8, the Voice Association based on the “Maps of Violations” launched a “score of the results”, on which independent observers will try to conduct a parallel counting of votes. “On the voting day, our observers recorded the usual violations: voting on absenteeism, carousels, stuffing,” said Lilia Shibanova, the Executive Director of Voice, The New Times. - As for the arts in Tiki, now we are starting work in comparison of the protocols received on the hands of the observers, with those that the CEC officially published. We have developed a special program that automatically compares the ballots, and ask everyone who worked in the elections to send us scanned copies of such protocols. This is a long job, after which we can evaluate the scale of the country's postscribes. In the meantime, it remains to talk about concrete examples: in the section No. 417 in Tatarstan, 261 people voted for EP, and on the CIK website you can find out that in the end they received 1261 votes there. ”
The head of the regional programs of the Fund for the Development of Information Policy, Alexander Kynev, claims that in different regions the elections have falsified in different ways: “The technologies of electoral distortions are known and do not change. There are indirect violations when a citizen lowers the ballot into the urn himself, but puts a checkmark under the pressure of the authorities or for the promised reward. There are straight lines: stuffing, voting on bought ballots. ” According to him, when calculating the most popular fraud in addition to direct rewriting the protocols - damage to the ballots for other parties or when a voice for one batch is sent to a stack of votes for United Russia. “Each technology has its own geographical zoning,” says Kynev. - Pskov, Tverskaya, Tambov regions - voting through portable urns (home voting) is very popular there. Moscow and St. Petersburg-cruise vote and rewriting protocols. In the North Caucasus, protocols are simply written to pre -set results. To evaluate the country's scale, you need to wait for all the results. So far we are talking about about 15% of abnormal votes for the party in power. ”
However, in Moscow there were sites that gave, according to the results of December 4, the results that could envy in Chechnya and Dagestan. No wonder at a meeting with Vladimir Churov, Dmitry Medvedev called the head of the CEC “wizard”, and he, having gone, replied: “I am just learning.” If Vladimir Churov learns, in March Vladimir Putin can count on 99%.