This is how they secured a smooth path into the Federation Council for a crooked United Russia politician named Chesnakov:
http://youtu.be/oZfrIavOfbc However, the "elected" United Russia politician himself sees no problem with the voters' expression of will. The problem, apparently, is with the observers. They get in the way and "create a negative atmosphere": The violations recorded during the elections to the city council of Kasimov, in the Ryazan Region, had no effect whatsoever on the voters' expression of will. Moreover, according to Alexei Chesnakov, deputy secretary of the victorious United Russia party, the main violations came not from the participants, but from political and civic observers. "In Kasimov, the number of violations and their severity on the part of participants in the electoral process was insignificant — which cannot be said of the violations committed by observers," RSN reports him as saying. According to the party official, they interfered quite aggressively in the work of the election commission over minor violations that had no impact on the voting, "but created a negative atmosphere". http://top.rbc.ru/society/24/07/2012/661447.shtml
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