Pursuit on election day September 18, 2016

On September 18, 2016, the State Duma and regional legislative assemblies were held in Russia. OVD-info records the related political persecution.

The information reduced below mainly comes through the call center of the “Maps of Violations” (with the exception of cases specified especially). Data is replenished.

Detention

In the Oktyabrsky district of Yekaterinburg, the voter was detained for trying to photograph his ballot in the booth. He reported to the call center that they made an act on him, the details are unknown.

Expulsion

In the village of Pervomaisky of the Tula region, two women, mother and daughter were expelled from the site. The reason was that the daughter read a list of candidates that a poorly seeing elderly mother. The Chairman of the PEC took their clean ballots from them, called the police and drove it off the site. When women complained about TIC, the chairman raised a scream.

Nesting

In the village of Chuperinovka, the Tver region, a member of the commission from the Yabloko party with the right of an advisory voice is not allowed to the site despite the presence of a certificate.

In one of the sections of the Kolpino district of St. Petersburg, observers are not registered at all, observation coordinators are not allowed into the building of the police. In addition, as reporters reported to the call center, the building has a separate room in which there are forms of ballots, and “unknown people” go there.

In the city of Zainsk (Tatarstan), a member of the territorial election commission with the right of deliberative vote was not allowed to be observed in the precinct election commission.

In Buinaksk (Dagestan), they did not allow a member of the election commission with the right of an advisory vote from the Yabloko party, Chernivik reports . In Makhachkala , according to the same publication, observers were also not allowed into seven sites. In Kizlyar , in one of the sites they said that there were no places for observers and offered to observe in turn. In another section of the city, observers were deleted under the pretext that in their directions there is no press of the party that directed them. Moreover, they represent not a party, but a self -nominated Oleg Melnikov. In addition, as reported to the hotline of the “Violation Cards”, in Makhachkala , they do not allow the representative of the lightning publication to be accredited to the voting room.

Threats

In the Vyborg district of St. Petersburg, unknown men called the observers to “go out to talk” and threatened.

According to the data obtained in the call center of the “Maps of Violations”, in the village of Dinskoye Krasnodar Territory , an observer who found that many statements about home voting were written with one hand, and who applied to the territorial election commission and the monitoring group of the Human Rights Council, threats on the phone began to act.

In Ufa, the voter was threatened to call the police when he said that he would spoil the ballot.

In the city of Protvino, the Moscow region , when the one who came to vote asked if they check the Bulletins to the PEC on which there are no seals, the chairman began to threaten her with a trip to the police department. The present police officer said: "Yes, you are a fool, go look around."

Cases of coercion of voting

In addition to numerous cases of bringing people to bus sections, there are data on the direct coercion of people - most often it becomes known that the heads of organizations force employees. So, in the city of Spassk-Dalniy Primorsky Territory , according to the “Maps of Violations”, from the head of the brigade of the branch of Russian Railways, they demand to report every two hours to the personnel department about how many people from the brigade came to the polls.

From the village of Ovsyanka, Krasnoyarsk Territory , it is reported that in a psychiatric dispensary all patients are forced to vote for “fair Russia”.

In Moscow, the builders were brought to the plots on Michurinsky Prospekt, according to whom they were ordered to vote, otherwise they would deduct five thousand from their salary. However, for whom to vote, they were not told.

Information was also received about the compulsion of vote for “United Russia” by employees of Transneft -North JSC in Ukhta (Komi Republic) .

At the cable plant in Kolchugin (Vladimir Region) , as the employees of the call center told, they said that if you do not vote, then you may not come to work. At the same time, in previous elections, employees for participating in voting, on the contrary, were offered encouragement.

From the city of Pushchino, the Moscow Region , it is reported that the employees of the regional administration were instructed to arrive in the Moscow Region along with the entire family and with abnormal certificates at the expense of the United Russia and Gratitude budget.

In Belgorod, the leadership of the dental clinic forces employees to vote for United Russia, threatening dismissal.

In Nizhny Tagil, employees of the city education department are called and forced to vote.

In the Zherdensky district of the Tambov region , according to the call to the call center, the employer forces the drivers of the fleet to go vote, otherwise he will not release the car from the park. They were told that on the site a member of the commission with a decisive vote will check whether they came.

In Samara, from employees of the music school they demanded a call or SMS to report the fact of voting.

A student of a technical school in Bugulm (Tatarstan) complained about the head teacher, who demanded from students a signature for an obligation to go to the polls. The student did not want to sign anything, but the head teacher pressed him. He did not go to the polls, and in the evening the head teacher wrote to him that he should come to the director.

In one of the schools of Nizhny Novgorod, the director, who is simultaneously chairman of the PEC, a few days before the election called teachers to his office, forced to go vote and then call her. On the voting day, she called the teachers, asked if they voted, forced voting in the morning.

A resident of the Moscow district Lublino said that he was called from his place of work and threatened with dismissal in case of refusal to vote.

In the Basmann region of Moscow, two elderly people called the social service and “urgently recommended” not to go to the site, but to vote at home. At the same time, they warned that if they still appear on the site, "there will be problems with a visit to a social worker."

In Tomsk, the commandant of the hostel forced students to vote.

In Moscow, the administration of the boarding house of labor veterans forced people to vote for United Russia under the threat of eviction.

In Sevastopol at the Rosmorport company, the chief ordered employees from the shift on duty to visit the elections and control the visit to the elections to other employees.

According to the data received on the phone of the call center of the “Maps of Violations”, the headquarters was created in the newspaper Vechernyaya Moscow to ensure the appearance of employees for elections, which in writing and orally threatened employees with dismissal in case of ignoring elections.

In Crimea, the heads of budgetary organizations call employees with the question whether they are going to the elections, and every hour report to the district and city administrations about who voted, reports the publication “Crimea. Realities ".

In addition, numerous reports are received that people call representatives of candidates with questions whether they voted or not.

Blood prohibitions and shooting

Observers in the areas are not allowed to take pictures and shoot videos (they can demand the pictures and threaten with expulsion from the site), and sometimes even get up from the chairs. If the video is allowed, then often only from a certain place. Similar prohibitions are faced with observers in the plots in the village of Aksakovo and the village of Karmaskali (Bashkortostan) , Samara , Kazan , the village of Verkhnyaya Sinichikha of the Sverdlovsk Region , Nizhny Novgorod , the village of Aleksandrovka (Rostov Region) , Georgievsk (Stavropol Territory) , Balashikha (Moscow Region) , the village of New Devyatkino (Leningrad Region) , Nevsky district of Nevsky district. Petersburg .

From Neftekamsk (Bashkortostan) it was reported that in one of the sites, perhaps, there was a stuffing of the ballots for the candidate Ilgam Galina. The stuffing, according to official figures, was not confirmed, but during the audit all observers were taken to a separate room.

In the Moscow district of Nagatin-Sadovniks , a member of a commission with a ruling voice, standing at the urn, approached the unknown people and urgently asked to move away, because a “very important person” would vote.

In Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Territory), the head of the territorial election commission went to the site, lined up the police in front of the observers, showed the line on the floor and announced that those observers who would take this line except in order to drink water or go to the toilet, should immediately be removed from the site.

In the city of Balakhna, the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the members of the commission with the right of deliberate voice do not show additional lists of the voters.

According to Chernivik, in two polling stations in the village of Argvani (Gumbetovsky district of Dagestan), police officers took the telephones from observers and threatened to use force in the event of photo and video shooting.