Yandex has uncovered impending fraud in the Moscow mayoral elections
The Moscow government will try to increase turnout in the upcoming mayoral elections at the expense of administratively dependent voters, Krasnaya Moskva reports.
The information was revealed by accident when the Yandex search engine began indexing Google documents that were in the public domain.
For example, the document “PEC Resource Map” contains data on the number of homeworkers, disabled people and “friends of the CSO” (social service centers) responsible for working with them. “Measures for resource mobilization” are also outlined.
Another document, “Beskudnikovo Gracheva’s Request,” was created on June 27 by the head of the department of social protection of the population of the Northern District, Svetlana Istomina, and is currently being supplemented. The administration is already ready to mobilize almost eight thousand people in the Beskudnikovsky district and seven thousand in the Dmitrovsky district, which is more than a quarter of the likely actual turnout.
Another file called “SEPTEMBER Vost Degunino,” also in the public domain, contains a list of 23 thousand voters with addresses, contact details and other personal information. Considering that there are only 59 thousand voters in the region, the authorities are going to achieve a turnout of 60%-70% in this way.
“We would like to remind you that only five candidates passed the municipal filter to participate in the mayoral elections, none of whom are liberal or opposition. According to experts, this could reduce turnout from the expected 60 to 30-35 percent, and it will have to be “stretched” by state employees and voting in other regions: many pensioners live in their dachas in the Moscow region and adjacent areas, ready to vote for the incumbent mayor,” writes “Red Moscow”.
Yandex uncovers fraud in the Moscow mayoral election