http://rosvybory.org/ Observer registration is underway. Here is Gazeta.ru’s infographic on the number of observers in different projects:
Full version here. Our main task right now is to provide everyone who has signed up with the paperwork from candidates/parties. It’s not the easiest job, given that people live in different cities. We have now signed an agreement with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), which will allow RosVybory to simplify as much as possible the formalities of assigning an observer to a polling station.
I hope it will be just as easy to work with the other candidates and that, instead of endless negotiations, they will start issuing observer authorizations. Candidates: give your campaign teams a push. Campaign teams: get in touch with RosVybory coordinator Georgy Alburov at rosvybory@gmail.com Time is running short—another issue is that all existing projects need to be coordinated to avoid duplicate observer assignments. A reminder, my dear friends: if, in a burst of enthusiasm, you decide to become an observer in the last week before the election, there is a 95% chance that no one will be able to help you, because a) there will be no authorizations for the polling stations you need, and b) there simply won’t be time to deal with you and separately organize the paperwork transfer process. If you want to fight the Kremlin crooks stealing our votes, I strongly recommend registering as soon as possible with RosVybory or with another project. It would be much better if all of us, in whatever way we can, helped promote both specific projects and the very idea of becoming an election observer. You can get RosVybory banners for sharing here (thanks to zhgun) Update: There is also the "School of Observers" and Golos (Russia’s leading election-monitoring movement), holding an Observers’ Forum.