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MOSCOW Sun Mar 4, 2012 4:57pm EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A day or two before Russia's presidential election, Sergei Smirnov received a call from a person that called him or her self Mikhail along with told him the terms on the deal: you'll vote with regard to Vladimir Putin four times as well as collect 2,000 roubles ($70) in return.
The sum seemed to be guaranteed that will tons with other youthful adult men in addition to women which attained about Sunday outdoors a well known fast food synovial on the actual southwest fringe associated with Moscow, unveiled that will end up being used to numerous polling areas while in the land which bands your capital.
Smirnov, a new journalist, said he / she found the actual group 2 , 3 weeks earlier than the election by way of a friend. Mikhail, to who he found from Moscow's Yugo-Zapadnaya (Southwest) metro station upon Sunday morning, gifted your ex remaining instructions.
"He said we should vote regarding Vladimir Putin, picture the actual ballot, and send out him this photograph by phone," Smirnov said.
Smirnov is actually a single with a few activists who infiltrated and also accompanied your group of what your dog stated were "carousel" voters, since Russians call people today which solid many ballots from diverse polling stations employing docs reserved with regard to absentee voters.
It may be a perform pundits claim may be employed to cushion benefits regarding Kremlin persons with elections since Putin came to electric power throughout 2000, like a new December several parliamentary vote in which usually suspicions involving fraudulence advised the biggest protests of his 12-year rule.
Opposition politicians said Sunday's election, where Putin earned a six-year term having virtually 60 per cent of the vote - enough to avoid a new runoff he or she might have confronted if he or she fell simple of 50 percent - appeared to be very little exception.
"Nobody expected most of these carousels . it really is complete impudence," explained Alexei Navalny, a common protest leader who's concerning these arranging different demonstrations starting off about Monday in Moscow and other cities.
Navalny, that provided observers for you to polling stations , mentioned this individual had been receiving reviews associated with likely violations most of day.
Stung by allegations of dupery in the parliamentary vote, Putin requested countless world wide web cameras set up in polling places across the country to get Sunday's election, and in a victory conversation he or she claimed this individual had won "in a great amenable in addition to genuine struggle."
But experts said the actual collection Smirnov joined was one among several occasions of suspected fraud.
Golos, a great independent vote supervising group, gotten a lot more than 3,500 stories of potential violations nationwide.
A YouTube online video media published by a person who identified ourselves as Fremstiller showed gentlemen within Russia's the southern area of province of Dagestan stuffing ballots in to bins one after another here
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Lawmaker Ilya Ponomarev mentioned this by means of Sunday afternoon he had heard of many scenarios of alleged fraud, which include carousels.
He explained Russia's electoral program had been permeated with a culture of scams created a smaller amount with purchases in the top than about the actual motivation with regional and local officers who sadly are excited to be able to remember to those people earlier mentioned them.
"Vladimir Putin has a technique it is in place in which provincial government bodies are usually obliged to manage the consequence of your lording it over party. They realise that whenever they really don't attain the right final result they might eliminate their jobs," Ponomaryov said.
"They act outside of reaction to help be a cheater inside the elections."
Grigory Melkonyants, deputy head with Golos, said voting violations took a lot of forms.
The alleged "carousel" voting band in Southwest Moscow acquired voters' brands documented with a few polling stations , your dog said, in which community election officials in all likelihood knew we were looking at part of a vote rigging business but never cease them.
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