CPRF and SPS state mass falsifications at elections in Dagestan

Representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) assert that the electoral campaign and elections in Dagestan were accompanied by mass violations and falsifications in favour of the party in power committed by state servants.

Makhmud Makhmudov, First Secretary of the CPRF's Dagestan Committee, has stated that there were no elections as such at all. Mr Makhmudov has treated the actions of the authorities during the elections as administrative terror.

According to his story, mass falsifications were made under attentive control of Republic's top officials who were delegated by two persons per every district. At some polling stations they did not even count votes after opening ballot boxes: bureaucrats would not grow weary by in situ falsifications. They took all the ballot papers away to the premises of local administrations. And from there, they later proclaimed ridiculous figures about 90-percent voter turnout and shattering victory of "Yedinaya Rossiya".

"Our observers were not given copies of tabulation minutes. They draw protest acts on this occasion, but chairpersons of precinct electoral commissions have unanimously refused to sign them," Makhmud Makhmudov said.

Gadzhi Gasanguseinov, an SPS member, has also shared his impressions with the  "Caucasian Knot" correspondent: "At such high voter turnout, as declared by the Republic's Electoral Commission, there should have been huge agio and long lines of people at polling stations. But, alas, the rooms were empty, and the local TV had even nothing to show."

According to preliminary data of the Russian Central Electoral Commission, 88.89 percent of the voters were for the "Yedinaya Rossiya", and 8.79 percent have voted for the CPRF.