Very soon we will learn the official position of the Russian authorities on the following question: should a woman named Darya Teymurovna rename herself “Darya Timurovich” in order to pass as a real citizen?
The meeting of Russia’s Central Election Commission regarding the exclusion of the opposition from the elections in Novosibirsk Region will take place on August 7.
As you may remember, they kept us off the ballot in a rather crafty way: the local election commission recopied some of the data with errors, and the now-legendary “FMS database” (Federal Migration Service database) then “found” those errors. On top of that, the FMS database itself lists people as being born in the year 199, and somehow it is supposedly our problem that the person’s passport says 1991 — “there are no grounds to distrust the database.”
In response, we wrote a huge and excellent complaint, and that is what will be considered on the 7th.
However, it is extremely important for us not just to prove something at the Central Election Commission (it is obvious that this is a political decision), but also to explain to you once again that we collected the best signatures that could possibly be collected, and that the refusal to register us is completely unlawful.
Here is a special website. It contains statistics on the signatures declared “invalid,” along with examples. It clearly shows that most of them were rejected because of the outdated FMS database and the negligence of the inspectors.
http://dem-coalition.tilda.ws/
Take a look yourself, and send it to a friend (especially if they live in Novosibirsk). This matters, because you and I will have to come to a shared decision on how to regard elections like these.
The more information, the better.