Community initiative

The Voice Association, which monitors the election, announced the launch of the SMS-CIC project. According to Kommersant, with the help of a new service, observers will be able to transfer data from the final protocols directly from the sections, in the format of SMS messages. As the deputy executive director of the Voice Grigory Melkonants explained, the idea of ​​the service is to "get data data faster than they will be in the CEC."

“All observation organizations already have“ slow horses ”, which, of course, will allow you to control the elections, but it will take a lot of time. And we call this project“ fast doe ”among themselves: the protocols will not have time to deliver from the district commission to the territorial one, and the data will already be in the public domain on the Internet,” said Melkonian. The Vo will be able to publish the collected information at 21.00 Moscow time - after the closing of the last site.

As Melkogonz noted to join the project, it is necessary to centrally accredit the numbers of the phone numbers of their observers, since “to ensure reliability” from unaccounted phone numbers will not be accepted. The association has already been proposed to take part by the organizations "Citizen Observer", "Rosbur", "League of voters" and everyone. Thus, the new service will make it possible to “parallel to summarize the results of the elections” and will help to fight the rewriting of the protocols, Melkonians noted.

On January 24, the Voice Association announced the launch of the portal "Map of Elections in the 2012", where it will be possible to apply due to violations in the pre -election period and voting day in the presidential election. "Messages about violations committed during the election campaign in the presidential election will be recorded on the map," the Voice said in a statement.

During the pre -election Duma campaign, the Voice association was attacked by state media and judicial authorities. So, on December 2, the Merchant District of Moscow found the Voino Association guilty of violation of Article 5.5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The association should pay a fine of 30 thousand rubles. A violation recognized by the court may subsequently become one of the arguments on the suspension of the organization’s activities if the authorities will achieve this.

On the night of December 2 to 3, the Executive Director of Voting Lilia Shibanova was detained in Sheremetyevo upon arrival in Moscow. Soon, the airport customs service released the detainee, taking her laptop at the same time. Soon after, Lifenews published part of the personal correspondence of the leaders of the Association. “The clarity of actions indicates a planned intent and the commission of one by one group of persons under a single leadership,” said Grigory Melkonyans at that time. The day after the election, December 5, Melkonian could not go into his mailbox. After the introduction of the login and password, the Gmail.com service said that the password for the account was changed less than an hour ago. Access to the account was restored a few hours after consultations with Google Russia office specialists. “After the account returned, it was indicated that the last entry was from the Russian IP address,” said Melkonyans. "Thus, unknown persons who hacking my email had access to it for three hours," he said.

Earlier it became known that the prosecutor's office began checking the activities of the Voilk Association at the Appeal of the Chairman of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov, whose statement was read out in court. In the appeal of Churov to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, it was said that the “Voice” “was trying to appropriate the authority” in the election campaign, which can violate the electoral legislation.

The letter also said that the “voice” is illegally campaigning against United Russia and tries to appropriate power. "In distributed information, negative reports of one of the parties -" United Russia ", which can contribute to the creation of its negative image among voters," said Churov.

Earlier it was reported that the reason for the initiation of an administrative case regarding the Voice was the posting on the Internet "Maps of Violations of Elections." The prosecutor's office issued a warning to the executive director of Liliya Shibanova for violation of the law "On the Media" and "On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in the Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation." On Friday, the court session will be held.

Chikov also said that an employee of the prosecutor’s office demanded from Grigory Melkonian written explanations about what the “voice” is, what the organization is doing and who its leader is doing. In addition, he was required to explain whether he recognizes violations of the Administrative Code.

In support of the Voice, the human rights council of Russia, "Memorial", members of the EU-Russia forum spoke. The co -chairman of the Party of Folk Freedom Mikhail Kasyanov demanded “immediately lawlessness” in relation to a public organization. “In today's Russia, independent surveillance of elections has become a crime,” Kasyanov said. “But it becomes obvious to everyone that even fooling voters and putting pressure on the observers, it is impossible to wash these dirty and through fake elections.”

In December, the NTV TV channel released the Association film-investigation. The NTV film crew burst into the Association’s office, demanding explanations about the sources of financing and "attempts to disrupt the election process." Deputy Executive Director of Voice Grigory Melkonians all the time in the office of NTV journalists repeated one phrase: "You are Surkovsky Propaganda" ( video ).