People ask: will there be vote rigging in this election? My answer: of course there will. Not a single election in Moscow has ever gone without fraud. 2) Sobyanin is known as a serial election falsifier from his time in Tyumen, and we all remember very well what he pulled in the December 2011 elections. 3) The authorities are terrified of a second round. Why would we assume there won’t be fraud this time? Because Sobyanin said so and added “honest Pioneer’s word” (a Soviet-era equivalent of “cross my heart”)? Well, he’ll also tell you that Rotenberg isn’t stealing money from Moscow road construction. Are we supposed to believe that too? That’s why observers are absolutely essential. Anyone who wants to become an observer needs to complete a simple registration procedure on the RosVybory website. After that, within the next couple of days, a district coordinator or a member of the RosVybory headquarters staff will contact you. Don’t delay. You need to register and come to training today. Why do you need to hurry? a) From the moment you register to the moment you receive your polling-station assignment, at least 5 days pass (those assholes turned on pre-moderation of applications because employees of district administrations, social service centers, and other citizens dependent on the executive authorities have been signing up en masse as observers). Then a coordinator has to find you, then you still need time to get trained, and only after that can you receive the paperwork. Don’t leave it until the last minute. b) While you’re hesitating, your spots are being taken by the ladies from the district administrations. The money allocated for their training was apparently embezzled successfully, so now they’re being sent to observer projects to study for free. Every day, pleasant older women show up at observer headquarters with an “instruction call from the district administration.” c) Before September 8, you need to have enough time to prepare properly: attend a seminar, a training game, or a lecture; read the handbook; leaf through the election code; ask all your questions and get answers. There still aren’t enough observers. We need at least 10,500 people, and only about 4,000 have signed up. We understand that we’ll get the numbers we need, but we don’t want it to happen, as usual, in the last three days. Everyone will be running around like crazy and standing in line for assignments. All 10,500 observers must be qualified. An observer who doesn’t know how to counter fraud isn’t much use. To keep the forces of evil from feeding you nonsense, you need training and preparation. Of the 2,500 independent precinct election commission members and 4,000 people who want to observe, only one third have been trained so far. So let’s pull ourselves together and come to training. RosVybory has excellent trainers, the seminars are informative and interesting, and the games definitely won’t leave anyone bored. Traditional training format: ONE, TWO, and THREE http://rosvybory.timepad.ru/events/ 2) http://gn2013.timepad.ru/events/ 3) http://golosinfo.timepad.ru/events/ And also a game-based training format (where you can sharpen your skills in countering election fraudsters and learn to make the right decisions quickly in stressful situations): http://gooddeeds.timepad.ru/events/
Don’t wait—sign up now. http://register.rosvybory.org/ Also: WE URGENTLY NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR THE CUBES Look how many of them (campaign cubes) there are, for example, tomorrow:
http://cube.navalny.ru/ Remember how few there were at the beginning. We’ve built the infrastructure and can now scale it up. In the final stretch of the election, we need more campaign points. That part is done. Now we need campaigners. We’ve calculated that each campaign contact produces an 8:1 conversion rate. In other words, if you say a few words, smile, and hand a newspaper to eight people, you are guaranteed to bring in one voter. An hour of work means a couple dozen votes. Real votes in a real election. That’s what politics is. This is extremely important and effective work. We all need it. Moscow won’t campaign to itself, and a good result won’t happen on its own. Here is everything you need to know about campaigning at a cube. And here you can choose a convenient cube, sign up, and go there. Join right now.