Boris Nadezhdin’s campaign gets Russian election authorities to accept ‘up to several dozen’ signatures previously declared invalid due to typos

Russian presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin’s campaign successfully appealed to Russia’s Central Election Commission to accept “up to several dozen” signatures for his nomination that were previously declared invalid, reports independent publication Agenstvo, citing Nadezhdin.

According to Nadezhdin, the main issue concerns obvious errors and typos that occurred while the signatures were being scanned. He added that the majority of rejected signatures needed more complicated verification, requiring Nadezhdin’s team to call those whose signatures the election authorities found suspicious. “We’re focusing on Moscow, compiling lists of everyone and trying to call them. We will try to prove that these people really exist,” said Nadezhdin.

Russia’s Central Election Commission declared hundreds of signatures invalid due to incorrectly-stated addresses or passport numbers. Nadezhdin said that errors in the signature lists could have occurred during the digitization process.