Election analyst Ivan Shukshin says Moscow precinct results are being rewritten after Russia’s State Duma election
Source: Ivan Shukshin
Election analyst Ivan Shukshin said tally sheets containing the results of Russia’s State Duma elections were being rewritten “on a large scale” in Moscow.
As one example, Shukshin pointed to a tally sheet from polling station No. 2700 in western Moscow that he said an election commission member had to “fight” to obtain.
The original tally showed United Russia with 21.5% of the vote at the polling station, the Communist Party with 28.2%, and New People with 29.5%. But those figures changed in the final version entered into the Central Election Commission’s system: United Russia had 86.8% of the vote, the Communist Party had 2.5%, and New People had 2%.
Shukshin said the tally was uploaded to the GAS Vybory platform overnight on September 20–21 but did not appear on the Central Election Commission’s website until the afternoon of September 22 — a day and a half later. “It takes five minutes to publish a tally sheet, not a day and a half!” he said.
“Why am I writing that it’s happening on a large scale? Because territorial election commissions in different Moscow districts are accepting revised tally sheets [from precinct election commissions] [with rewritten vote totals],” Shukshin said.
Election analyst Boris Ovchinnikov also discussed the rewriting of tally sheets in comments to iStories: “At Moscow polling stations, ballots were moved into United Russia’s pile during the vote count, but that was apparently only the first layer of fraud. I’m certain that virtually all tally sheets showing turnout above 75–85% (but below 100%) were filled out with no connection whatsoever to the ballot count. That explains the repeated percentages at different polling stations within the same territorial election commission, as well as other anomalies. Where there were no genuine observers, they could enter any numbers they wanted on the tally sheet and then rewrite the results yet again when entering them into GAS Vybory.”
According to estimates by Novaya Gazeta Europe and iStories, United Russia would have received just 34–35% of the vote in the recent State Duma elections without fraud. The Central Election Commission announced that United Russia had won nearly 58% of the vote. United Russia secured its largest-ever faction in the State Duma.
