05 December 2007, 08:59
Union of Right-Wing Forces: Electoral Commission of North Ossetia falsifies election totals
The Union of Right-Wing Forces Party (known as SPS) in North Ossetia has stated that all the ballot papers were taken away to the districts of the Republic, and the votes were tabulated there, not at the Central Electoral Commission.
"It is done deliberately in order to falsify the results of voting. Should the elections have been held fairly, the 'Yedinaya Rossiya' would not have won more than 30 percent of votes in the Republic," Arkady Kadokhov, leader of the North-Ossetian branch of the SPS, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Upon termination of voting, all ballot papers should be taken out by members of electoral commissions, accompanied by militiamen, to the destination into the territorial commission, and then, they together with the traffic police (GAI) should be brought to the Central Electoral Commission.
Earlier, representatives of the LDPR and SPS had asserted that the voters had been intimidated before the elections, and consequently the voting results do not reflect the real will of the population.
Vissarion Aseev, candidate to the Parliament of North Ossetia, has also refused to recognize the election totals well before their official promulgation because of the violations that had taken place according to his data. "At voting they used both drop-in of ballot papers and non-admittance of observers to the polling stations during the vote count," Mr Aseev asserts.
We remind you that according to the information of the secretary of the Central Electoral Committee of North Ossetia Liudmila Rodionova, 71.6 percent of votes were cast for "Yedinaya Rossiya". Out of 447,179 citizens eligible to vote, a total of 286,111 persons took part in the elections, which makes 60.3 percent.
Author: Emma Marzoyeva, CK correspondent
