Pamfilova will deal with the pre-election lottery. How to find your polling place

Already next Sunday, September 10, the inhabitants of the Sverdlovsk region will elect a governor. This will be the first popular election of the head of the region in the last 14 years. Six people are vying for the chair of the region's leader. According to the election commission, a number of innovations are envisaged for this year's elections. 805 precinct and 12 territorial election commissions in the region will be equipped with video surveillance cameras and electronic voting boxes. Also, Sverdlovsk residents will be able to vote at the location within the region without absentee ballots. Everything that a voter needs to know about the elections of the Sverdlovsk governor this year is in the material of the Academy of Sciences "Mezhdu stroki".

Who do we choose?

We elect the governor of the Sverdlovsk region. This is the highest administrative elected person in the region, who leads the state executive authorities. He heads the regional government and his own administration, coordinates the work of law enforcement agencies, and has the right to dissolve the Legislative Assembly. In accordance with Art. 44 p. 1 of the Charter of the Sverdlovsk region, the governor determines the main directions of domestic policy, ensures the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens, signs and promulgates regional laws.

The governor is elected by the inhabitants of the region for a term of five years and cannot hold the said position for more than two consecutive terms. For the first time in the Sverdlovsk region, the governor was elected in 1995. The first and so far the only head of the region elected by popular vote was Eduard Rossel, who won election campaigns three times - in 1995, 1999 and 2003. After him, Alexander Misharin and Yevgeny Kuyvashev became governors, but their candidacies had already been proposed by the president and were not submitted to a popular vote.

Who wants to take the governor's seat?

Everyone will have to choose from six candidates. These are State Duma deputy from the LDPR Igor Toroshchin, head of the regional branch of the Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice Dmitry Sergin, Deputy of the Legislative Assembly from A Just Russia Dmitry Ionin, Managing Director of PJSC Plus Bank Alexei Parfenov from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, deputy of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg, nominated by the party " The Greens, Konstantin Kiselyov and Acting Head of the Region Evgeny Kuyvashev. A month before the expiration of the latter’s term, in April 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted his resignation (the powers ended in May), but immediately signed a decree appointing him as acting head of the region. This was perceived by Ural political scientists and Kuyvashev's fellow party members as support for the Kremlin in the upcoming elections.

Only these six managed to collect the required number of signatures of municipal deputies and heads (from 126 to 132) to pass the so-called "municipal filter" and officially register as candidates for the post of Sverdlovsk governor.

Why do you need a municipal filter?

The municipal filter is formally designed to test candidates for their "seriousness" and ability to establish ties with deputies. In reality, the filter, according to the opposition parties, makes it impossible for those people who can seriously compete with the nominee from the party in power to participate in the elections. Now there are 1,547 deputies in the dumas of various levels. Of these, United Russia has 948 deputies, Just Russia has 88, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has 71, the LDPR has 35, the RPPS has 10, and the rest are self-nominated.

No. Citizens of the Russian Federation who have reached the age of 18 and whose place of residence is located on the territory of the region can take part in voting in the election of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region. Persons recognized by the court as incompetent or held in places of deprivation of liberty by a court verdict cannot vote. Employees of TECs recommend that you clarify in advance whether you are included in the list of voters and which precinct you belong to, so that on election day there will be no unpleasant misunderstandings for you.

My friend does not want to go to the polls, will he be punished?

“In 2013, at the election of the head, the turnout was 45%, in 2016, when deputies of the Legislative Assembly were elected, it was about the same level. Therefore, we hope that this year's turnout will be sufficient. There was a time when the people of Tagil were even less interested in the elections, the turnout was 35%, now it is becoming more active. Let's hope that the voters will come, despite the height of the gardening season,” said Lidia Bryzgalova, chairman of the Nizhny Tagil election commission.

How to find your polling place?

On the territory of Nizhny Tagil, 157 polling stations will operate from 8:00 to 20:00. You can find your address on the website of the election commission of the Sverdlovsk region.

On September 10, special groups of members of election commissions with ballot papers and a portable sealed ballot box will visit the seriously ill, the elderly, and people with disabilities.

What if I moved to another city?

Those who do not have time to decide on their location before September 5 can vote on the territory of the Sverdlovsk region according to a special or, as it is also called, branded application.

“Special applications will be issued from September 5 to September 9 at the PECs at the place of registration,” the local election commission says. - For example, they send someone on a business trip, he comes to his native PEC and writes a statement where he indicates the reasons for which he leaves the city, and also because of which he was previously unable to write an application for voting at the location. A part of a special stamp is stuck on the application, after which it is given to the voter. Before the elections, the regional electoral commission will publish a list of polling stations to which Ural residents can come with branded statements. In our Leninist Commission, for example, there will be seven such polling stations.”

People who have only a temporary residence permit on the territory of the Sverdlovsk region or have no registration at all will not be able to vote in the gubernatorial elections.

In the Sverdlovsk region, early voting in the gubernatorial elections will be organized only in hard-to-reach villages and hamlets. It will start on September 2 and end on September 9. Voting will be in 24 settlements: in Artinsky, Volchansky, Gornouralsky, Ivdelsky, Serovsky, Sosvinsky, Tavdinsky, Tugulymsky, Turinsky and Shali urban districts, Baikalovsky and Taborinsky municipal districts, Alapaevsky municipality, urban districts of Verkhotursky and Karpinsk.

How many ballots will I be given at the polling station?

For the election of the Sverdlovsk governor, one ballot will be issued, which will indicate the full name and brief information about all six candidates. The procedure for placing information about them in the bulletin was determined by the election committee in early August. The first line was taken by Social Revolutionary Dmitry Ionin, the last - by Liberal Democrat Igor Toroshchin.

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How to become an observer in the September 10 elections

On September 10, on a single voting day, elections will be held throughout Russia. Sverdlovskaya will host gubernatorial elections and elections of local dumas in 49 municipalities. The only way for an ordinary citizen to control how legal the voting process will be is to become an observer. Traditionally, training for observers is conducted by the Golos organization, it is on its training manuals that all parties rely in preparation. We tell you how to become an observer, what to learn and what to expect at the polling station.

Who is an observer?

An observer is a representative of a party or a registered candidate who is at the polling station throughout the election day and controls that the voting itself and the vote count process take place legally. Any citizen of Russia who is 18 years old can become an observer. He must be sent to the polling station by the party or candidate, but it is not necessary to be a member of the party.

How to sign up?

The easiest way is to sign up through the Golos organization, which specializes in training observers and monitoring elections not only in Russia. The application can be left on the website of the organization or in a special questionnaire, which was published by the coordinator of the "Voice" in the Sverdlovsk region Alexander Grezev. After that, you will be contacted and invited to study.

After studying, a site will be determined for you according to your wishes and invited to pick up the documents. This year, according to Grezev, Golos will not train observers, but members of the PEC with the right to consultative vote - they have somewhat more powers. Difficult sites are usually sent to experienced observers who already know how the process goes.

In addition, you can contact a party close to you in ideology and ask to become an observer from it. Not all parties are ready to accept people "from the street", often large parties already have their own pool of observers, but you may be lucky. In one of the parties, the site was told that they were trying to appoint an observer to the polling station at the place of residence, so that he himself could vote, and also to make it easier to get home, because the counting of votes could drag on past midnight.

How to prepare?

Both in the "Voice" and in the parties, a 1.5-2-hour training on how to be an observer awaits you. The first training for observers has already been held in Yekaterinburg, according to Alexander Grezev, there will be 7-8 more large trainings. Alternatively, the 248-page Short Term Observer's Handbook can be read. In the parties they say that they also study according to the manuals of the "Voice". Separately, you need to study the Electoral Code. You can read publications in the media about what were the violations in the past elections and whether there were any in your area in order to be prepared in advance for something like this.

It is necessary to stay at the polling station until the end of the counting of votes and filling out the protocol, otherwise everything would be pointless. Be prepared that in extreme cases you will stay until morning, so get a good night's sleep the night before.

What can an observer do?

The observer has the right to follow all the actions of the employees of the election commission for which he works, to monitor the counting of votes, draw up a protocol with the results of voting, file complaints about all violations, receive a certified copy of the protocol, as well as take photographs and videos, having previously said about this PEC.

What is forbidden to the observer?

Observers are strictly prohibited from touching ballots, let alone giving them to voters. In no case should a voter be helped to vote, even if he asks very strongly for it. An observer cannot take part in the counting of votes, participate in the work of the commission. It is forbidden to agitate voters for any of the candidates, even if a pensioner tearfully asks you for whom to put a tick for her - you can’t prompt. Violation of any of these points will be a reason for removal from the site.

At the same time, remember that removing you from the site without a court decision has been prohibited since last year, before the commission could remove the observer by its own decision. The representative of the commission will probably go with a statement to the court, which will consider the document immediately. So far, this is not a very common phenomenon, which almost no one has encountered in practice. According to observers, the PECs know about the secret order of the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, that it is better not to touch the observers without a reason.

How to behave in the field?

Experienced observers advise that there should always be at least one independent observer on the site. For example, if there are three of you, then you can’t all go to lunch or go to the toilet together. According to observers, the most important principle is continuity, if the polling station was left for at least half an hour, then you can not follow it further, because this time is enough to, for example, throw in ballots.

It is undesirable to conflict with members of the election commission, especially because of minor violations that cannot affect the election results. Many experienced observers agree with the commission that they will not find fault with minor violations, but all the important part of the work, for example, the counting of votes, will be carried out strictly according to the law, without speeding up the process that PEC members like to resort to. Observers advise that it is better not to quarrel with the commission, but to help them, especially if its members know the law worse.

In Golos, it is advised to address only the heads of the commission (chairman, deputy, secretary), preferably by name and patronymic, not to raise your voice, to be extremely polite. In recent years, PECs have become accustomed to independent observers, but there are still cases when particularly persistent activists were removed from polling stations under any pretext. If the commission refuses to work with observers according to the law, then you need to start taking action. All claims and comments should be made in writing. Golos advises you to be as persistent as possible, even if the chairman of the commission says that he is busy and does not pay attention to the violation you indicated. Moreover, if you see a gross violation of the law that occurs right in front of you, for example, you witnessed a stuffing, then you can physically prevent the offense.

What if there are already enough observers?

Never enough. As Alexander Grezev, coordinator of Golos in the Sverdlovsk region, told the site, he expects to train about 150 people at the trainings and send them to the polling stations. So far, about 50 people have signed up through the form. At the same time, 549 polling stations will open in Yekaterinburg on September 10, so there are not enough observers.

It so happened that the dates of the final of the festival coincided with the date of the election of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, and the information about the addresses of the centers for issuing prizes and the addresses of polling stations is practically duplicated.

Here is the call to come with a passport and try your luck in the prize draw:

"The start of the most anticipated and intriguing action of the Ural Gems folk festival has been given, and you are its participants! Come with your whole family on September 10 to the award center near your home. It is very easy to find out exactly where your center is located. Addresses of award centers and a list streets included in the coverage area of ​​the centers are listed in the "Award Centers" section. Enter the section, click your city, find in the list of sectors your address where you are registered according to your personal passport data, - and you will understand where the gift from the organizers of the festival "Ural Gems" awaits you. Grab your passport - and forward to your awards center. In the center, fill out the form, select a certificate and receive a gift."

As for the addresses, here, for example, is the address of one of the award centers in Pervouralsk...

On the general telephone number of the information center, the operator explained that they can only guide a person at what address to apply for prizes, and citizens ask several dozen such questions a day. According to the operator, people are not at all embarrassed that they can vote and receive prizes, in fact, in one place.

Spokesman for the Fund's Coordinating Committee Elena Streletskaya, having learned that the addresses of polling stations and centers for issuing prizes are the same, she explained that, perhaps, in some small settlements, at times, there is only one place for elections and celebrations. Therefore, the address is the same, but the premises are different.

In addition, the spokeswoman explained that this is not against the law, the main thing is that the rooms are different. With regard specifically to Pervouralsk, where in both cases it is directly indicated: "premises" ("the premises of the administration of the Western Administrative District"), then this is a "terminology issue."

"The premises must be different according to the law, it is forbidden to hold any actions at the polling stations," Streletskaya said. "In any case, they will vote, for example, in the library, and the award center will be located in the gym of the same building."

A member of the Board of Trustees of Ural Gems, who is assigned, among other things, the functions of compliance with the current legislation by the organization, an ex-deputy of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg Nafika Famieva to hear a comment regarding match not only addresses, but also "assigned" to the places of residence of citizens, failed, he dropped the phone call. sent the same question to the Electoral Commission of the Sverdlovsk Region, where they promised a prompt response.

It should be reminded that 15 apartments, 130 Lada Granta cars, 710,000 gifts and souvenirs will be raffled off as part of the Ural Gems campaign, which will be held in a number of cities in the Sverdlovsk region on election day, September 10. At the same time, Yekaterinburg was not included in the list of cities where the lottery will be held, so many residents of the Ural capital enjoy the right to vote "at their location" and go to neighboring cities out of mercantile interest.

Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman called on citizens to boycott the elections. Photo by Vyacheslav Counterfeiter

Today, Ella Pamfilova, chairwoman of the Central Election Commission, will start checking the situation in the Sverdlovsk region, where on the day of the governor's election there will be a raffle of apartments and cars. According to Pamfilova, "it looks like voter bribing." Experts believe that although the local government may be behind the event, it does not formally violate the law. And if successful, other regions can adopt the experience if they need to increase turnout.

In connection with the “win-win lottery”, a number of factors have to be clarified, Pamfilova said: “On Monday we will figure out what it really is. Since it is very important to find out who is initiating this, at whose expense, at what time, where, whether they are candidates or not, maybe this is a call to vote or a call to vote for someone, does this look like bribery?”

Earlier it became known that in the Sverdlovsk region on the day of elections of the governor and deputies of municipalities on September 10, there will be a “win-win drawing” of apartments, cars and other gifts. It was timed to coincide with the Ural Gems festival, and the places of the draws coincide with the addresses of the polling stations. It is expected that among the prizes there will be 10 apartments, 130 Lada Granta cars, "tens of thousands of household appliances and valuable gifts worth up to 4 thousand rubles." The financing scheme of the festival is not disclosed. According to some estimates, the lottery budget varies from 100 to 400 million rubles. It is assumed that in the gubernatorial elections the event will cover a third of the region - about 20 cities, including all major cities, except for Yekaterinburg.

The head of the regional election commission, Valery Chaynikov, said that "there will be no lotteries within the boundaries of the polling station." In an interview with reporters, he explained that the turnout is expected to be 42%, and he himself learned about this event from the media. According to Andrey Buzin, co-chairman of the Golos public movement, the drawing of prizes in the elections "does not violate the law, although to a certain extent it violates the spirit of the elections." He noted that formally the drawing of prizes announced during the gubernatorial elections in the Sverdlovsk region cannot be called vote buying: “It can simply be called political technology to increase turnout. These measures have been a tradition since Soviet times, and they are very often used in post-perestroika Russia. They are efficient." At the same time, he added that, nevertheless, "there is a certain connection between the turnout rate and the percentages that the candidates got."

Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman, who previously tried to register as a candidate for governor, and after the refusal of the Central Election Commission called for a boycott of the elections, called the lottery direct bribery of voters: “Everyone here understands that these elections are not real. To look like a real election, it is necessary to catch up with the turnout. Nobody wants to go, so attraction through lotteries begins. This is an outright deception of the population. In fact, going to such elections for a self-respecting person is like selling your own birthright for lentil stew.”

According to lawyers, any lotteries directly or indirectly related to elections are prohibited by law. But there are many ways to get around this ban, for example, any commercial structure that calls what is happening its own promotion can become the organizer of the lottery. It can be assumed that the experiment will be recognized as successful; during the presidential campaign in 2018, the experience will be disseminated not only in the Sverdlovsk region.

As Grigory Melkonyants, co-chairman of the Golos voter rights movement, explained to NG, although the law on elections does not provide for lotteries, the CEC will not abolish voting, since it is not formally the organizer of regional elections - local election commissions are responsible for this. “The Central Election Commission can initiate an audit, apply to law enforcement agencies and the regional commission that is responsible for holding elections. Also, the CEC can give its assessment - the agency has its own legal department," he said. The expert noted that the CEC should study how such technologies affect the will of voters. “As a rule, such events lead to the popularization of a certain candidate, and since in the eyes of people such good initiatives come from above, they will associate this with the authorities. The administrative candidate, as a rule, is well known and the turnout will most likely work to improve his result,” Melkonyants stressed.

Alexander Grezev, the coordinator of the Golos movement in the Sverdlovsk region, told NG that the lottery was being held in the region for the first time and was designed to increase turnout. According to him, the event will cover approximately 1.4 million voters, that is, 41% of the entire electorate of the region. He stressed that although lotteries in elections are prohibited by law, campaigning for a specific candidate or forcing them to come to polling stations is a direct violation, and neither of these is observed here. “Here, no one guarantees anything to anyone, and direct remuneration for coming to the polling stations or for voting is considered bribery. We will monitor the situation, but it is already clear that the regional authorities are behind this, and nothing would have been possible without their knowledge.”

Alexei Makarkin, First Vice President of the Center for Political Technologies, told NG that in the conditions when Roizman, the only real rival of Acting Governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev, was removed, the elections turned into a formality, and an increase in turnout became an urgent issue. “For Kuivashev, it is also a matter of increasing legitimacy. It is clear that under these conditions, holding a lottery is beneficial to the authorities.” The expert admitted that if the technology is successfully tested, it will be used in other regions too. He explained that the CEC will now be the organizer of the elections in 2018, and the federal authorities and departments will be behind this, and the lottery always has an element of scandal. “This is unlikely to be allowed during the presidential campaign, it is not good from the image point of view. First, elections are badly associated with a hoax. Elections are a serious state procedure, in which if not the most worthy wins, then at least the one for whom the most voted, and the draw is always something frivolous, excitement, uncertainty, it is not clear who and how will get the prizes. And secondly, some people associate the lottery with deceit, because it is impossible to control it,” Makarkin emphasized. The expert suggested that turnout in the presidential elections would be raised in a different way, for example, a new law would play a role, when it would be possible to vote outside the place of registration.

3 apartments and 20 cars were raffled among the residents of Nizhny Tagil on September 10, the election day. And although officially the festival "Ural Gems" has nothing to do with the people's will, in order to take part in the prize draw, you must first vote.

At polling station No. 2216, a flyer for participation in the draw is issued along with the ballots. The room with the instant win-win lottery is adjacent to the one where the voting takes place.

“We already have 600 people. 6 won home appliances. The same is true for the surrounding areas. Do you know if someone won an apartment?” women in T-shirts with the Ural Gems logo, which give out prizes, share.

Whether there is a coveted coupon for a car in a glass cube, they do not know. Boxes with lottery tickets arrived at the sites sealed, what percentage of souvenirs among the prizes at each site is a mystery.

“It is a pity to look at elderly people who, with a shaking hand, with hope in their eyes, take out a lottery ticket from the drum and in return receive a trifling souvenir. They didn’t fill out any questionnaire in front of me, they just vigorously discussed that the woman allegedly won the car, ”says Natalia from Tagil.

On the Clapboard, people slowly pulled themselves up to the polling stations. Someone went to vote, and someone just to try their luck.

“I came here today at least for a car,” says Anton, “But having won a souvenir - a fridge magnet, I was extremely disappointed. I don’t believe that among ordinary people there are those who will win a car, and even more so an apartment.”

Some were also happy with simple gifts - felt-tip pens, notebooks, flashlights, especially those who came with children.

“My husband and I each won a pack of felt-tip pens. Our granddaughter started first grade this year. A good help in the office, ”Lyudmila laughs.

“Today my son said to me in the morning - dad, we will win a thermopot. We won it. The child said that if you really want something with all your heart, then the dream will come true. After that, I also begin to believe in miracles,” says Danil.

At the moment, the lottery has already ended at several polling stations. The festival fulfilled its mission -.