Precinct Election Commission №163

The PEC №163 in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic is an example of a completely falsified electoral commission in the North Caucasian Federal District.

Our volunteers observed several cases of voters stuffing several ballots into the ballot box. One of the voters did it twice. The volunteers are not denying the possibility that this probably repeated more than 10 times. More than that, the ballots with the votes were illegally cast by commission members: into the ballot box, as well as onto the table in the process of counting votes after 8 PM. This way, voter turnout in the commission was almost tripled!

I cannot understand why they are creating this illusion of elections and at the same time they are giving more than one ballot to voters if it is much easier to relax and to add illegal ballots during the counting process. (Agnieszka)

The observation process was very simple and fast because most of the time there were basically no voters at the polling station. The members of commission had a familiar relationship with voters, when those eventually came: many of them were greeted and hugged. Some of these "friends" even threw more than one ballot into the ballot-box. Women, men and the members of the commission themselves took part in the cases of ballot-stuffing.

What's interesting is that during the election, and especially during the counting of votes, the Chairperson received many telephone calls. Perhaps he received some instructions?