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How were the elections to the State Duma. What's wrong with e-voting. Six people killed at university in Perm

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This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the most important thing that happened during the day. Traditionally, we start the letter with something good, but today's two main topics - the results of the elections to the State Duma and the attack on the university in Perm - do not allow this. Let's go straight to them.

Pulse

Let's start with the elections

• The three-day vote, according to official data from the CEC, ended with the victory of United Russia, with the constitutional majority in the State Duma retained. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party, A Just Russia - For Truth and New People also entered the parliament.
• The main intrigue was the results of electronic voting in Moscow. They were promised to be announced at five in the morning, but they were published only in the afternoon, hiding in the general data array .
• Many, including Alexei Navalny , have suggested that publication of the results was delayed due to falsifications in favor of United Russia. All opposition candidates lost the elections in Moscow - although some were in the lead until the final vote count.
• The Communist Party refused to recognize the results of electronic voting. The leader of the Moscow branch of the party, Valery Rashkin, called on all those who disagreed to come to Pushkin Square "for a public discussion of the election results." there Trucks were pulled . to the rally About 200 people came .
• There were especially many violations during the elections in St. Petersburg (even the CEC was dissatisfied). Observers reported about “carousels” and stuffing, and Yabloko candidate Nikita Sorokin was beaten by the police , members of the PEC were massively detained.
• the gubernatorial elections The acting heads of the regions won , including the acting head of the Khabarovsk Territory, Mikhail Degtyarev. We wrote about his upcoming victory back in May .

If you missed our yesterday's stream about the voting results with the participation of Andrey Pertsev, Konstantin Gaaze and Vladislav Gorin, then watch it now - and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel .

And about the massacre in Perm

• Perm State University was attacked by an armed 18-year-old student Timur Bekmansurov. Six people died and 28 were injured. The attacker was arrested and wounded.
• The families of those killed in the shooting at Perm University will be paid two million rubles each.
• have been canceled in the Perm Territory . Classes in schools, technical schools and colleges
• The traffic police inspectors who detained Bekmansurov will be presented for an award .

Texts of the day

Summing up the results of the elections : studying the numbers, counting the mandates

The main clear results: United Russia retained its constitutional majority, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation significantly improved its result compared to the previous race, and the Liberal Democratic Party received one of the worst results in its history. In the Duma, for the first time since the transition to elections based on party lists, there will be a fifth faction - the "New People" of businessman Alexei Nechaev (a political force created clearly with the participation of the Kremlin). The main incomprehensible outcome is, of course, electronic voting, namely, its role in the final voting results. According to the CEC, all single-mandate constituencies in Moscow were won by candidates supported by the mayor's office, although until late Sunday night (that is, before online data was added to offline data), oppositionists were in the lead in many districts of the capital - sometimes even after counting 99% of the votes, as in the case of Anastasia Udaltsova.

We spoke to those who were at Perm University during the attack

“The guy walked down the street and fired at the checkpoint, and from the checkpoint to the building go 200 meters. We didn’t know what to do, and then he went into the corridor and started shooting. Everyone ran to their offices. There were so many shots, and they were so strong that we thought that many people attacked the university, but it turned out that there was only one,” Vitaly Prizyuk, editor-in-chief of the Perm State University magazine, told us. Read his story and the monologues of two other eyewitnesses to the attack.

For these elections, the CEC decided to code the election data to make it harder for those who analyze the results. We talked with the most famous electoral analyst - Sergei Shpilkin

Shpilkin has been downloading data from the CEC website for years to analyze it for anomalies in turnout and voting results. Many political scientists and just voters rely on Shpilkin's charts when assessing how high the level of falsification was. Meduza Special Correspondent Lilia Yapparova spoke with a researcher about the CEC's struggle with independent election analytics and the delay in publishing the results of electronic voting (which Shpilkin calls "absolute evil").

Interview with Mikhail Lobanov, a candidate from Smart Voting, who defeated TV presenter Yevgeny Popov this morning. But then the results of the electronic voting appeared ...

Associate Professor of Moscow State University Mikhail Lobanov was nominated to the State Duma in the Kuntsevsky district of Moscow from the Communist Party. On the morning of September 20, Lobanov was ahead of TV presenter Yevgeny Popov by 10.5 thousand votes. However, later the final results appeared, taking into account electronic voting. And everything has changed. As a result, Popov scored 35.17%, and Lobanov - 31.65%. Associate professor of Moscow State University has already stated that electronic voting "added" to the TV presenter "a gap of 20 thousand votes", and intends to protest against this. We talked with Lobanov about how the election campaign went in the district and what he plans to do with its results.

Podcast "What Happened"

There were a lot of falsifications in these elections - they could steal up to 30 percent of the votes. Here is what observer Roman Udot says

The movement of observers "Voice" * recorded more than five thousand possible violations in these elections. These are, in particular, attacks on observers, issuing pens with disappearing ink to voters, turning off surveillance cameras at polling stations. On the evening of September 19, counting of votes was suspended in many polling stations after calls from territorial election commissions. In Cheboksary, the chairman of the commission even ate a register with a list for home voting in order to hide the violation. Roman Udot, co-chairman of Golos, talks about these and other violations. Of course, Moscow also did not manage without discussing electronic voting.

* The movement is included in the register of unregistered public associations performing the functions of a "foreign agent".

Listen to "What happened" on YouTube , and also subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Castbox , Yandex.Music and other podcast services.

And some memes

Of course, about electronic voting

And also about the new version of the “candidate from the people” and about what it is like to vote for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in 2021. And also about the raccoon. The same one who was caught at the polling station on Saturday and who was made the mascot of the Public Headquarters for Observing Elections in Moscow. In general, see for yourself .

We waited for the results of electronic voting, we will wait for fair elections. Your Medusa