Russia finds ‘errors’ in paperwork of candidate hoping to stand against Putin
Russia finds ‘errors’ in paperwork of candidate hoping to stand against Putin
Election commission finding could disqualify anti-war Boris Nadezhdin from running
Russia’s elections commission has said it found “dead souls” among the more than 100,000 signatures of support submitted by Boris Nadezhdin, the sole anti-war candidate in next month’s presidential election, in a sign that he could be disqualified from a carefully managed ballot meant to deliver victory for Vladimir Putin.
Nadezhdin, a veteran politician who has associated with Kremlin insiders and the opposition to Putin, has been waging a last-minute campaign to get on the ballot for the election, with thousands of Russians standing for hours in the freezing cold to add their signature in his support.
While Nadezhdin has not yet been disqualified, Friday’s briefing at the central elections commission indicated that he could be removed in the run-up to the vote. He has been summoned to the commission on Monday for a review of the “errors” among his signatures.
"you have error in documents"
"What would that be?"
"In field 'name' is not 'Vladimir Putin'. Grave error in documents, we cannot accept"
How convenient.
what's even more convenient is they submitted them on the 48th floor... where the windows are well tended and open easily.
Was the error that he filed the paperwork to run as president?
Nah, he failed to fall out of a window.
Some of the names that support him are apparently from dead people.
Unclear whether they were dead before Putin's people identified them.
He failed to spell Vladimir Putin correctly in the name field. Any other answer is incorrect.
Quelle surprise!
Doing this to the puppet “opponent” that they themselves came up with, to create an illusion that he’s a real candidate… So messed up, they’re laughing in people’s faces
The puppet opponent that's openly against the war?
Yes. Real opponents that are against the war are either imprisoned or abroad. He might be getting out of control, but not for long.
It’s a commonly known fact. I was surprised that people here didn’t know.
Also he is only one that said he wants to win. Nobody else said that.
this will not be a surprise for Nadezhdin and his team.. i'm sure they have been expecting this fight from the beginning, although they didn't expect to have as much support behind them going into it..
There was never going to be any fight and there was never going to be an election with more than one person on the ballot.
It's illegal to say anything bad about the government, the military or Putin. Anything you say against them could be construed as misinformation, which is also illegal.
Any other candidates would need to be approved by the Kremlin so they could at least campaign. Oh, did I say the Kremlin? I meant Putin.
Obviously Putin is going to get 105% of the votes. There's no winning if you're not Putin.
But this is still quite a disaster for Putin as the collected votes are the closest thing to citizens expressing their real opinion on Putin.
That's why they are trying to present the signatures as illegitimate. It's not that they are afraid of losing elections to the opposition. It's the fact that the opposition got such a support that is problem.
this will not be a surprise for Nadezhdin and his team..
Yes.
i'm sure they have been expecting this fight from the beginning
I don't think so. Compared to Navalny 6 years ago he is not prepared at all.
although they didn't expect to have as much support behind them going into it..
Seems so
A minor correction: His guys brought the max of 105 000 (from 200k+) signatures and the margin of error is set to 5%. Izbirkom spoke about two candidates at that time when they summoned them. Earlier a state official incorrectly stated that the ballot of 5 signatures can't be brought with just one. Also, Izbirkom is said to use LLM to detect fake signatures lmao.
Yet, they can make up everything and has all tools to do so. I'm just curious what would they pick. And a brief wind of hope they wouldn't be able to, just for the sake of legitimization since that guy in the world news.
Yeah let's start with a fact that 105000 signatures limit sucks so bad :D
And 2,5k limit per subject of Russian Federation meaning you need loads of money to collect them in every region or republic. This garden is walled just like a Gulag. It's surprising he got them with all these barriers.
What also makes me wonder is that Putin has a thing for running independent meaning he needs 300k. And there were many photoes of his signing posts remaining vacant. Still, no doubt he'd get there.
How kind of them. They're trying to save him from mysteriously falling out of a window.
"Dead souls"... were they dead before patinas investigators identified them?
If I ever ran opposed to Putin, I would never leave the ground floor. Can fall out of a window that’s 5 feet off the ground. Stairs just wouldn’t exist in my world.
Let me introduce you to "basements"
I'd also avoid any kind of tea. Tea in Russia has been known to come with a complementary side dish of plutonium
That’s England.
What an earth do these people think is going on? Does he think Russia is an actual democracy and that he stands even a remote chance of not only winning, but being allowed on the ballot?
If this guy actually turns up to this meeting on Monday there's a 95% probability he's going to be dead by the end of the day. I hope he knows that.
If you give up you'll never achieve anything. This guy is a hero. He puts himself in danger just to show that there's still people out there willing to stand against Putin. It gives the Kremlin a headache because they have to come up with some bullshit reason again to ban him from participating. It reminds all the Russians how their system is not a real democracy. He doesn't stand a chance to actually win, but it still communicates to everyone that there's plenty of people in Russia who support change.
I fully believe he is a Kremlin plant made specifically to encourage citizens with dissident opinions to step into the open.
He didn't expect any support. His target audience was Moscow Oblast(separate region from Moscow the federal city), mostly educated citizens, mostly from MIPT.
I don't think he'll be dead, rather the Kremlin's actions regarding him suggest they see him as useful. Nadezhdin gets a lot of help from Russian state-sponsored media in getting his name out there. And while he is seemingly willing to criticize Putin and even score some rhetorical hits, he's also an official politician who can probably be controlled if necessary. I'm not sure whether he's a witting part of it or not, but I think Putin wants to keep him around to manage the opposition. The legit opposition may also realize this but may support him anyway because they have no other hope.
Usually the errors Putin's opponents have, is falling off tall buildings.
This is interesting.
It's widely assumed that Putin has various measures to ensure he'll win no matter who runs against him.
This could be an indication that he's unpopular enough that even these measures won't be enough to ensure he'll win.
Same happened 6 years ago.
Also there was poll last year what maximum age should be for presidency. 60% are against 70 years or older president. Bunker Rat is 71.
I'm sure there were videos a few years back of goons openly shoving piles of paper into the ballot boxes.
Like, not even smart enough to do it off camera. Didn't matter anyway. Nobody is going to do anything about it.
Until the majority of voters who lived through ‘91 to ‘00 die off, he’s fine.
I imagine the issue was with his Death Certificate it was filed, but the state sponsored hitman is taking his time.
Well it can take time for polonium to kill someone.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Nadezhdin, a veteran politician who has associated with Kremlin insiders and the opposition to Putin, has been waging a last-minute campaign to get on the ballot for the election, with thousands of Russians standing for hours in the freezing cold to add their signature in his support.
Nadezhdin previously served as an aide to Sergei Kiriyenko, Putin’s domestic politics chief, and his deep contacts in government are controversial.
Tatiana Stanovaya, the founder of the political analysis firm R.Politik, said Nadezhdin had probably been permitted to try – and fail – to collect signatures for the elections to “show the hopelessness of the anti-war agenda”.
But since then, she said, Nadezhdin’s support from the camp of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, his meeting with angry wives of soldiers fighting in Ukraine and his attempts at outreach to anti-war Russians who have fled abroad had made his candidacy politically embarrassing for the Kremlin.
Nadezhdin said in his elections manifesto that Putin had made a “fatal mistake by starting the special military operation”, the Kremlin’s preferred term for its invasion.
Another openly anti-war candidate, Yekaterina Duntsova, has already been disqualified by the elections commission, which refused to accept her nomination because of alleged errors in her paperwork, including spelling mistakes.
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Nobody buys this, right? Putin's people will find any error they decide they need to find
Oh that must be the %7 of the %107 vote turnout that Putin got from one of the precincts in Grozny
The number of votes they cast is simply a reflection of how firmly they believe in his policies.
Always use Linux to file paperwork in Russia.
Windows will be the death of you over there.
Damn, yeah that happens sometimes that you send in some wrong papers.
At least he tried. Hopefully they dont kill him for that.
Navalny 2018 all over again. Who could have guess that Putin fears anyone younger than him.
He fears anyohter other than him.
Didn't Trump try the same tactic? So do we have a " Student /Master " debate? BC Putin is pretty dumb as well. His people are just better at making others prove gravity is real.
A similar, funny thing is going on for ages in TR. Turkish environmentalists who only seems to care about environment and not so extreme leftism can't set up "Green Party" while the most vote they could get would be around 0.001%
I don't think they will like my vote prediction, but I really know this geography where people root for cheaper diesel prices.