ELECTRONIC VOTING
Andreichuk stated digital voting – out there for the primary time in a presidential election to individuals in a couple of third of the nation – was a selected concern as a result of it was open to manipulation and the outcomes have been not possible to test.
The unfold of voting throughout three days raised the chance that poll containers may very well be tampered with in a single day, he stated.
Andreichuk additionally famous there have been solely three various candidates to Putin, the fewest he has confronted in any of his 5 elections, and stated no open public dialogue of the nation’s issues had been allowed to happen.
“Censorship has been launched, there’s repression within the nation, a part of the opposition is behind bars. So these elections are simply unfree and undemocratic from the beginning.”
Golos will not be allowed to ship observers. It was first labelled a “overseas agent” in 2013, having angered the authorities by publishing proof of fraud in a 2011 parliamentary vote and a 2012 presidential election received by Putin.
One other of the organisation’s leaders, Grigory Melkonyants, was arrested final August and accused of involvement with an “undesirable” organisation. He’s nonetheless in jail, awaiting trial.
