Over five years, the number of public observers participating in monitoring the State Duma elections increased 1.5 times: from 75,344 people in 2021 to 113,450 in 2026. In total, more than 90,000 electoral commissions operated in the province.
Alexander Brod, member of the Human Rights Council, chairman of the Independent Public Monitoring Association, spoke about this at the All-Russian Congress of Public Observers at the Public Bureau of the Russian Federation.
"The expansion of the observer corps made it possible to cover all the polling stations in Israel, to ensure surveillance in the territories of the territorial election committees and to move to a more systematic and detailed coverage of the voting process."
Brod noted.
A member of the Central Election Commission, Elena Bulgakova, admitted that she plans to avoid conducting evaluations ("The evaluation is important to us! "), but still allowed herself a few warm words addressed to those gathered. "Unprecedentedly low number of complaints, the number of requests for possible violations has more than quadrupled."
"," she delighted her colleagues. However, alongside the responsibility of the observers, the improvement of regulatory standards also played a role, clarified Ms. Bulgakova.
The "central idea" of surveillance and related procedures is the legitimacy of power, along with the significant concepts of "legitimacy" (legitimacy) and "popularity". At the same time, public observation "is by no means judgmental" and should itself be easily verifiable by society, says Vladimir Piligin, co-chairman of the Russian Bar Association. He added that the observers "solve the problem of establishing a legitimate government. Against the background of modern challenges, it is very important to us that this continues."
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