In Khimki, a police report was filed against independent members of election commissions

In Khimki, the police, at the request of the deputy chairman of the Territorial Election Commission (TEC) of the city, took explanations from independent members of election commissions and the voter. Andrey Skorokhod, a voting member of the TEC Khimki, told OVD-Info about this.

According to Skorokhod, in the last days of June, before the day of voting on amendments to the Constitution, the TEC made a collective decision: to ask the police to investigate complaints about distortions in the voting procedure that were received through the Map of Violations service.

However, Skorokhod believes, the deputy chairman of the TEC added a number of demands “on his own behalf” to this appeal: to check the information that a number of independent members of precinct election commissions (PECs) and Skorokhod himself allegedly violated the “mask regime”, destabilized the work of the commissions, created a nervous atmosphere etc. As a result, the police took explanations from non-administrative members of the PEC and from Skorokhod himself.

Then, on July 6, a police officer summoned voter Zalina Dieva to give an explanation. The policeman showed Dieva a statement on behalf of the deputy chairman of the TEC: allegedly, she and a group of people went to the election commissions and handed out instructions to their chairmen. Dieva told OVD-Info that before voting day she came to the commission and did not find herself in the lists of voters - there was no special list attached to the PEC at the polling station. On July 1, there was already such a list, and she voted without going to other polling stations.

Also, Dieva explained, the statement filed against her with the police contained a requirement to initiate a case under Article 6.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population) against three members of the PEC. Among them is Kristina Klimaeva, a member of PEC no. 3216, who was not allowed to see the commission's documents by her colleagues and who was attacked by a police officer. Two other members of the PEC mentioned in the statement were also prevented from working by their commissions.

• On March 11, the State Duma approved the draft law on amendments to the Constitution, initiated by Vladimir Putin. Before that, the President supported the amendment of Deputy Valentina Tereshkova, who proposed to give the President the opportunity to run for two new terms after the adoption of amendments to the Constitution. Sobyanin called the ban on Putin being elected "a destabilizing factor." The amendments are planned to be approved at a nationwide vote, the main stage of which took place on July 1, 2020.
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