Precinct Election Commission №144

The PEC №144 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. More than that 820 additional voters were magically added to the election commission protocol under the section “The number of ballots in stationary ballot boxes cast only in the premises of the polling stations”, but our observers never saw them appear in the polling station.  This way, voter turnout in the commission was overrated by 2,4 times!

From the very beginning, I had the impression that there would be violations in this polling station. (Natalia)

This polling station was the strangest of all that I had observed before.

First of all, it’s hard to believe that 800 ballots were stuffed in, as this is a huge pile of sheets. Perhaps they stuff only some of the ballots and they add to the protocol the rest?

Secondly, during the election process, a man came in and demanded to install a new ballot box, as he received information that there had been a case of ballot stuffing. However, during the counting of votes, the “disqualified” ballot-box was opened and the ballots from it were counted in the same way as from the other ballot boxes. I did not understand why it was necessary to set aside this ballot box, if during the counting of votes all ballots from it were taken into account.

Thirdly, I have noticed that observers did nothing as if they came only to sit at their places. Some are pretending that they are making notes, and some simply do not do anything at all.