Today, Active Citizen, the pet project of Sobyanin and Rakovа, announced the results of its most high-profile vote yet — on the renaming of Voykovskaya.
This is a great opportunity to talk about ACF’s experiment.
It is quite simple: we — and not only we — strongly suspect that the Active Citizen system is outright fraud. But a detailed investigation into how it works would require speaking with city hall officials and so on, and they would be afraid to talk to us. So ACF decided to formally hire, under contract, a journalist whose objectivity is beyond doubt, so that he could conduct a major investigation into Active Citizen and answer our questions.
Based on the results of the investigation, ACF will decide whether to begin legal action against Active Citizen and its creators.
We proposed this arrangement to Ilya Rozhdestvensky, who previously worked at Echo of Moscow (a well-known Russian radio station).
The deal is simple: we are officially paying 12,000 rubles for the investigation, and we want honest answers to the following: — do votes on Active Citizen actually affect anything; — are there serious grounds to suspect vote-rigging; — who is actually able to vote on Active Citizen; — is there any way to verify the integrity of the voting procedure; — is there any way to check and confirm city hall’s figures about the large number of participants; — how much all of this costs, and what exactly is being paid for;
The author’s text is being published without any edits or revisions. Fair play: an objective investigation deserves an honest publication.
Read the result here: https://fbk.info/investigations/post/122/
Of course, we’d like to know what you think about this idea — write in the comments.
And if you think we did the right thing, help spread the link to the investigation, and don’t forget to send donations to ACF.
We’ll write tomorrow about what ACF has decided to do regarding Active Citizen.
P.S. If you know something about Active Citizen that city hall is keeping quiet about, send it to our Black Box.
P.S. Ilya Rozhdestvensky wrote this article for the Anti-Corruption Foundation before he became an RBC correspondent.
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