In many countries of the world, and Russia is no exception, revealed evidence of manipulation of elections.Technology of them are very diverse:
- vote under supervision;
- rewriting and substitution of the record of voting;
- vote for people who are no longer alive;
- «Election Carousel" - Vote on a pre-filled ballots.
There are many other methods.All of them are illegal and punishable under the law including criminal responsibility.
Identification of electoral fraud
reliability of elections are always and in all countries of the world is a big problem.The statements that the elections were rigged, often come from candidates who did not collect the required number of votes.In such cases, in the press and broadcast more often heard terms such as "Election Carousel".To identify such violations can be quite difficult, because it is related to the fact that it is necessary to prove the fact of rigging.For example: when there is a vote count, the election commission members purposefully shift ballots voted for the candidate of Sidorova in a pack of Ivanov.The difficulty arises here in order to catch the hand of a member of the commission, which is produced intentionally.A man who has committed an offense, may refer only to his fatigue.So it is difficult to prove that a person who received a clean ballot before coming to the area, went into the booth and tossed in the trash previously received and filled.However, these facts are revealed, and they got the name "Election Carousel".To fix such a case, you can simply install surveillance cameras in the booth the voter, but again there is no evidence as to why and why people take part in elections, took out some paper and fold the other back into the inside pocket of clothing.
«Election Carousel" on the ballot in 2014
After the events of March 2014, as a result of the referendum Crimean peninsula came from the Ukraine and was incorporated into the Russian Federation, according to the American observers, it was held socalled "Election Carousel".Psaki Jen, a spokesman for the US State Department, was remembered around the world for its statements that "Western Europe by pipeline supplies gas to Russia" and "the 6th Navy United States landed on the shores of Belarus," mentioned at the briefing about"carousel", but what it is not able to clearly explain.It was after her claims, the term has gained special popularity.
substitution of election results without the participation of voters
One form of irregularities in the elections is the substitution results.This happens for the following schemes:
- shuffling results.In this case, there is a replacement number of votes received by one candidate, the votes of the other candidate, who received them less.
- so-called "Solyanka" when the calculation of the results is a substitution of a certain part of all ballots.For example, deliberately piles of spoiled ballots forms shifted in a stack for the right candidate.In this case, outside observers should monitor the process of registration forms is valid and not counted.
- «Sly fingers": in this way get rid of the votes in favor of the candidate unnecessary.There is usually as follows: tape up finger or hand or by other means is attached to the arm ballpoint pen, pencil slate rod.All this is done in order to ruin the actual forms of undesirable candidates unnoticed from the eyes of other members of the election commission.Spoil them by applying any of the features, ticks, dashes on the form, thereby transforming it into invalid ballots.
- «Toss": in this case, the attached forms ballots for other candidates to the number of votes necessary for a person.
manipulation of elections by direct voter participation
This type of spoofing selection results requires more attention.Since the violations occurring before polling station.These types of fraud include:
- Bribing voters to approach the voting precinct.
- Organization carousel voting.This method is one of the common methods of substitution of the voting results."Election Carousel" - a method in which the falsification of the results by bribing voters.Effective method as follows: voter receives a pre-marked ballot, which he puts in the ballot box, and he had received a blank form feeds back fraudsters.
- Voting by absentee ballot.It occurs in case of change of residence or permanent residence voter.This method is legal.However, the violations are taking place with these coupons, which in fact may not have been received by the voter.
Summary
There is a fairly large number of methods of election fraud, and they are used, unfortunately, to this day in some countries.However, each State to protect the choice of the citizens are different tightening in legislation that affect including such phenomena as "Election Carousel".What is fraud is unacceptable and must be addressed with the most drastic way, declares every democratic society.Also a great priority to the development of technologies that help to make the electoral process more secure from unscrupulous people who try to get the election results in favor of their or others.
