In many countries of the world, and Russia is no exception here, facts of electoral fraud are revealed. The technology of their implementation is very diverse:
- supervised voting;
- rewriting and substitution of voting protocols;
- voting for people who are no longer alive;
- “Election Carousel” - voting on pre-filled ballots.
There are many other methods. All of them are illegal and under the law are punishable to the extent of criminal liability.
Detection of election fraud
The credibility of the elections always and in allcountries of the world was a big problem. Claims that the elections were rigged often come from candidates who did not get the required number of votes. In such cases, such terms as “election carousel” are heard more and more often in the press and on the air. To identify such violations is quite problematic, because it is due to the fact that it is necessary to prove the fact of manipulation of the results. For example: when the counting of votes takes place, the members of the election commission purposefully shift the ballots with the votes for the candidate Sidorov into the pack for Ivanov. The difficulty here arises in order to catch the hand of the member of the commission who produced it purposefully. The person who committed the offense may simply refer to his fatigue. It is also difficult to prove that a person, having received his clean ballot before entering the precinct, entered the booth and threw the previously received and filled in the ballot box. However, such facts are revealed, and they are called "election carousel." Such a case can be fixed by simply installing the surveillance camera in the voter booth, but again there is no evidence base for why and why the person who took part in the elections got some papers and put others back into the inside pockets of clothing.
“Election roundabout” on the vote in 2014
After the events of March 2014, when as a resultheld a referendum, the Crimean peninsula seceded from Ukraine and was incorporated into the Russian Federation, according to American observers, the so-called “election carousel” was held. Psaki Jen, a spokeswoman for the US State Department, was remembered to the whole world by her statements that “Western Europe supplies gas to Russia via a pipeline,” and “the 6th US Navy will moor to the shores of Belarus”, mentioned at the briefing The “carousel,” however, could not clearly explain what it is. It was after her statements that this term gained particular popularity.
Substitution of voting results without the participation of voters
One of the forms of violations during elections is the substitution of results. This happens according to the following schemes:
- Shuffle results. In this case, the number of votes received by one candidate is replaced by the votes of another candidate who received them less.
- The so-called "Solyanka" when, when countingresults there is a substitution of a certain part of all ballots. For example, deliberately from a pile of spoiled forms, ballots are put in the pile for the right candidate. In this case, third-party observers should control precisely the process of recording forms that are recognized as valid and not subject to accounting.
- "Sly fingers":this way they get rid of votes in favor of an unnecessary candidate. This happens, as a rule, in this way: a finger or hand is bandaged with a ballpoint pen or a pencil stick in other ways. All this is done in order to spoil the valid forms for an undesirable candidate unnoticeable from the eyes of other members of the election commission. They spoil them by drawing any lines, check marks, dashes on the form, thereby translating it into invalid newsletters.
- “Podbros”: in this case, forms of ballots for other candidates are added to the number of votes for the required person.
Election fraud by direct participation of voters
This type of substitution results selection requires more attention. Since violations occur before the polling station. These types of fraud include:
- Bribing voters before entering the polling station.
- Organization of carousel voting.This method is one of the common methods of substituting voting results. The “electoral carousel” is a method in which falsification of results occurs by bribing voters. The method operates according to the following scheme: the voter receives a pre-filled ballot, which he drops into the ballot box, and the empty form received by him sends it back to the fraudsters.
- Voting for absentee ballots.Occurs in cases of change of residence permit or permanent residence by the voter. This method is legal. However, violations occur precisely with these coupons, which in reality could not be received by the voter.
Summarizing
There are quite a number of methods.falsification of elections, and they are used, unfortunately, to this day in a number of countries. However, each state in order to protect the choice of citizens applies various strictures in the legislation, which affect including such phenomena as the “election carousel”. What is fraud is unacceptable and should be dealt with in the most radical way, declares every democratic society. Also, high priority is given to the development of technologies that help make the electoral process more protected from unscrupulous citizens who are trying to get the election results in favor of their own or others.
