Today at the Novosibirsk election commission, we’ve already seen it all. A woman with the signature sheets was running away from us and locking herself in an office, they tried to ban filming, and we caught the commission using different Federal Migration Service (UFMS) certificates for different situations (the real one and a "special" one), but the "signature verification" going on now is something truly unimaginable.
In other words, they themselves corrupted (falsified) the UFMS database and are using it to declare correctly entered names and personal details invalid. This woman’s patronymic is "Timurovna," and it is written as "Timurovna" in her passport, but her signature is being ruled invalid because in the database she is listed as "Timurovich."
And the best part is that the person now running the "working group" is a member of the election commission from ... United Russia: