Russia's Central Election Commission is unhappy with a Reuters report on voter fraud

Russia’s Central Election Commission is annoyed with Reuters, which released an in-depth report on repeat voting in last Sunday’s presidential election, demonstrating that the country’s new system for “absentee voting” didn’t work as designed, and in fact allowed individuals to cast multiple ballots.

Responding to the report, and ignoring the fact that many of Reuters’s correspondents were Russian citizens, Commissioner Ella Pamfilova invited the news agency to go monitor elections in its own country (the UK).

Wasn’t repeat voting supposed to be impossible?

Yes, indeed. Meduza sparred with Alexey Navalny on this very issue, contesting his claim that Russia’s new “absentee” system facilitates repeat voting. Polling stations were supposed to receive lists removing or adding anyone who’d moved polling stations through the new system. In practice, however, at least some stations ignored or never received these memos, handing ballots to voters multiple times.