Total falsifications. Vladimir Zhirinovsky (United Russia). Some against the system: what happened to the fate of teachers who uncovered election fraud Will there be another election fraud

“Before I quit, I sobbed all night”

On the next week the country will celebrate Teacher's Day. Some teachers will not soon be able to cross the threshold of an academic institution, if at all - we are talking about those who were caught in fraud in the election commissions.

We contacted those teachers who know firsthand what election fraud is. These people are from a different "camp": at one time they did not keep silent about what they were forced to do.

Teacher Tatyana Ivanova from St. Petersburg became famous five years ago. After the December 2011 elections. Then, too, elected deputies of the State Duma and the city parliament.

Tatyana at that time worked as a head teacher at St. Petersburg school No. 575. Before the elections, the woman was confronted with a fact: it is necessary to ensure the victory of one of the parties. Ivanova went into denial. Her disobedience cost her her job. After her dismissal, Tatyana told reporters how employees of the RONO and the city election committee persuaded her to stuff her ballots. Later, the authorities tried to accuse her of libel in court, but the lawsuit was lost.

Tatyana Ivanova. Photo from personal archive

We contacted Tatyana. Surprisingly, for the former teacher, time seemed to have stopped. She still remembers the events of bygone days in great detail, has not forgotten the names of the offenders and cannot hold back her tears when she talks about her once beloved work.

- Tatyana, five years ago you had to quit your native school. Now what are you doing?

Nothing. I'm seating at home.

Did you get a job at another school?

There were no options. No offers have been received. I was only invited to a private school, but I'm not interested. I refused.

- To be elected as a member election commission weren't you invited again?

In the spring of 2014, I was still a member of the territorial commission. In St. Petersburg at that time there were gubernatorial and municipal elections. But these elections became my "swan song". My powers ended in May 2015, since then I have the same attitude to the elections as you.

Surely, you still have colleagues who are still working in the elections. How were these Duma elections compared to 2011?

Everyone says that this time everything went more or less cleanly. I tend to trust people.

But I can say that, compared to 2011, the situation in the local elections in 2014 was even more catastrophic. I could observe this from the inside as a member of the territorial election commission. Although I was diligently removed from all meetings, they took all measures so that I was away from the chairmen of the election commissions and did not see violations.

On election day, they put me in the basement - this is how the duties were distributed. The chairman of the TEC and I were supposed to accept documents, but not protocols, in the basement.

“We were offered to throw in 400 ballots”

- Do you remember well the time when you were a stranger among your own?

Of course. Will you forget this? In 2011, I was appointed chairman of the commission. It was time for the first pre-election meeting, where valuable instructions were handed out. I note that I worked in the elections for 14 years. Decent tenure. I know technology "from" and "to". Until 2011, the chairmen of the commissions were not school directors, they already have a lot of work to do. But this year they introduced an innovation. I remember that my colleague and I came to the meeting and were stunned - the chairmen of the precinct election commissions were all directors of schools.

- What were the changes?

Apparently, it dawned on someone that it is easier to put pressure on school principals. The most vulnerable link in the education chain.

- But not everyone is pushed through?

Hope. But when I refused to participate in the falsification, none of the teachers who were at that meeting came to my defense. Later, no one even confirmed the correctness of my words in court. Although I often met colleagues on the street, they all said in person: “We are all for you, our morning begins with a discussion of your situation and the day ends the same. We are all following the process." But no one supported me openly. They can be understood. Nobody wanted to lose their place.

Let's go back to that meeting. What exactly did they tell you?

Usually the chairmen of the election commissions were gathered in the building of the city administration. And this time we were invited to the social center. I walked into the room and was just amazed. Of those present, there were only 5 chairmen, while usually at least a hundred people gathered, our district is large. The conversation took place behind closed doors.

The head of the RONO and a man who introduced himself as Sergei Ponomarev spoke. They began to explain to us that it was necessary to ensure the victory of one party, they offered options on how to do it better. Sounded completely unthinkable options. Since I have been in this topic for 14 years, I told them: “I myself can offer any options.” And then she asked: “How do you imagine it?”.

What options were offered to you?

We were told that we should have two lists. And half an hour before the end of the elections, it is necessary to enter into the second list of those voters who will not come. Then throw the same number of ballots into the ballot box.

- And how many ballots did you have to put in the ballot box?

There were supposed to be 200 of them. And then we had double elections - Duma and legislative (in the Legislative Assembly of the city - "MK"), respectively, it was necessary to throw in 400 ballots. Then I asked how we will carry out the dummy voters according to the documents? After all, it is necessary to add 200 people to the lists. We need passport details. They openly explained to us: “You will be given disks containing all the lists, information about your voters. What do you mean, you are at school, consider yourself at home. Plant a floor above your man, and he will fill out the documents so that the observers will not notice anything.

Was it all paid for?

We were promised to pay 70 thousand rubles.

- As I understand it, you refused a solid increase in salary?

I rejected any suggestions. This is considering that at that time I was in the party for which they offered to do stuffing. After the first meeting, my colleague and I left dumbfounded.

Then we were collected a second time. I remember that the director of one school was present at that meeting, we knew each other well, but after a while, when I was accused of slander, it was she who testified against me in court. Despite the fact that I immediately voiced my position, the leaders of the pre-election meeting were inexorable, my words were ignored.

The last time we were gathered two days before the elections. We have already started work at the polling stations. And that day they brought me “leftist” lists. They were given to me by a member of the election commission. True, later at the trial, he assured that he was not present at the site at all. By the way, the prosecutor's office is now dealing with this person, as far as I know. By the 2016 elections, he was promoted, made the chairman of the TEC.

- Despite your refusal to do stuffing, did they still bring the lists to you? What for?

Perhaps they hoped to the last that I would change my mind, I would be afraid of losing my job.

- And what did you do with these lists?

She said: "I won't take it, take it back." They were taken away.

Just before the elections, I and another colleague of mine were summoned to the TEC. The chairman of the TEC personally invited: “Girls, come, we need to talk.” I note that we have cooperated with this person for many years, and, apart from good things, I can not say anything about him. We never let him down. He knew that elections in our precincts were always clean.

In short, my colleague and I came to the TEC. We were taken to a rest room. It was not the chairman himself who spoke to us that day, but a woman who, in my opinion, worked in SOBES. The lady immediately raised her tone. She shouted at us, saying that you are making yourself out of yourself, you want to be "white crows." In the end, she calmed down: “What are you afraid of? We have a whole commission of lawyers working.”

- That is, you were given to understand: in case of an emergency, they will cover you?

Exactly. I then hinted to her: “Are you not afraid that I will tell everyone about this story?” And I heard in response: "You will not prove anything." In the end, we broke up badly. But at that moment, I clearly decided for myself that I would not leave it just like that. I returned to school, and what was my surprise when I saw those very “left” lists on my desk. While I was gone, they brought the lists, and left them there. After all, the commission has already worked at the school. And my subordinates were instructed: "To transfer the lists to the chairman."

- What did you do with these lists?

That day I took them to my office and locked them in a safe. I have kept them for a long time. Like a memory. Burnt down just a year ago.

“She needs to be kicked out, but you want to give her a bonus”

How was election day itself?

Nobody touched us on election day. Although the evening before, the leadership of RONO offered to withdraw my candidacy from the post of chairman. Thank God they didn't have the power to do that. We worked out the elections, reported, handed over the documentation. It was the middle of December. And at the end of the year, teachers usually got a bonus. Chickens laugh, what is the amount, if the salary of teachers is 19 thousand rubles. And when the director of our school took the lists for the award to RONO, they did big eyes, seeing my last name: "Ivanov should be removed from his post, and you write out bonuses to her."

Then they started digging under me. They found fault with the fact that my daughter-in-law and son work with me at school. Moreover, my son worked part-time, consider moonlighting. He received a salary of 2 thousand rubles, was a building maintenance worker.

After that visit to the RONO, the principal of the school returned not herself: “I will probably be removed.” I immediately understood what was the matter: “What do I need to do so that they let us finish it in peace?”. The director perked up: "Refuse the bonus." I refused and filed a complaint. And then I asked, maybe I should still quit?

The director shrugged her shoulders: “We don’t need it yet, we’ll finalize the year, we’ll see.” I was so cut by this phrase - “we will finalize the year”. I understood that if I stayed, the school would be tortured with checks, as it always happens. It is no coincidence that there is an expression: “Tell me that someone needs to be drowned, send me to school. I'll dig."

At that moment, I wanted to shout to the whole world. And I made a decision for myself to retire. The next day, I put my resignation letter on the director's desk. And I noticed how she exhaled - thank God that she was leaving. I left, and then I told reporters about my story.

- After what did you have to sue representatives of the RONO?

Yes, and it was creepy. Let's start with the fact that I have never been judged. I'm already old. And in my concept, the court is bad. I didn't have a lawyer. I didn't know how to speak in court. I didn't even know how to properly address the judge. But when at the meeting I saw ordinary people who came to support me, I felt better.

Representatives of the RONO never appeared in court. The process took a long time, I was constantly asked what I would do if I lost the court? I said that I would file a lawsuit in an international instance.

Everything ended in my favor.

After the last elections, a criminal case was opened against the teachers who did stuffing. How do you think it could end?

In my opinion, it is naive to assume that someone will be punished and, moreover, imprisoned. After my trial, when the truth came out, the head of the RONO, which gave me instructions on stuffing, was promoted. She became deputy head of the district administration. She was not even removed from office during the trial ...

Do you humanly feel sorry for those teachers who are now accused of stuffing? They don't do it willingly.

No pity. Every person has a choice. He is not easy. I won't lie. Before I quit, I sobbed all night. I've devoted so many years to education. My 11th grade was supposed to graduate that year. I knew that I was betraying them. It was hard and painful for me. But I made this choice. In life, we all go through tests of love, power and money. Not many people can stand them. Therefore, I do not feel sorry for such teachers. I think they should not teach children.

Among the school principals who attended the 2011 election meetings with you, did anyone else refuse to do stuff?

I don't know about the rest. But I can admit that, basically, everyone made a deal with their conscience. When I watched our last gubernatorial elections, I was shocked. If then, in 2011, we were gathered by at least five people, everything was carried out secretly, quietly, then in 2014, school principals gathered everyone in a large hall, and everyone was given instructions on how to work with those who voted early. And when someone noticed me in the hall, I heard a whisper: “Ivanova is here, everything is gone.” Then I, too, being a member of the election commission, tried to get through to the authorities, but they did not hear me. If at least one person, after such elections, at least flew down from his post, the next time people would think - is it worth getting dirty? And we only fire teachers for insubordination.

You first encountered massive fraud only in 2011. It turns out that before that the elections were more or less smooth?

This is my story. Until 2011, we were not really touched. We worked out the elections for five plus. Now the late chairman of the TEC called us "poultry-excellent students." We did not receive any complaints from observers. Moreover, these observers practiced one election with us and asked to join us for the next one. Because they like to work in a relaxed environment.

As for the observers - if a throw-in is planned at the site, does it come out, and the observers should be “their own”?

It turns out so. Because it is problematic to throw in ballots imperceptibly. It is necessary that there is no one around. But in any case, throwing in 200 pieces is unrealistic. In 2011, there were old-style bins on my site. Theoretically, imperceptibly, it is really possible to throw in five ballots at a time. A person enters a secret ballot booth, fills out ballots, then exits and casts. According to the law, observers cannot stop him with the words: “Show how much you throw in, we will count.” But throwing in 3-5 extra ballots is not 400. Five extra ballots would not have made it into the "electronic" ballot boxes. Probably, before those elections, everything was thought out in advance, it was proposed to do stuffing in the polling stations where there were old-style ballot boxes.

- After what happened, did your school colleagues call you, support you?

No one called, no support. Friends met me on the street and said they were worried about me. I heard that many representatives of the RONO were also worried about me. But I didn't get much support.

- This year you did not work in the elections?

I closed this topic for myself. I remember that in my last elections in 2014, I came to one polling station as a member of the TEC and asked to see the lists. So the committee members called the police. Later, I was informed that a directive had been given - Ivanov should not be allowed to enter other people's polling stations, and even more so to the lists. So now I only go to the polls as a voter. And I believe that if all people came to vote, then there would be no stuffing.

“After the dismissal, I do not want to have anything to do with schools”

For many people who worked in the elections and refused to participate in fraud, life turned upside down.

Yulia Kapichnikova. Photo from personal archive

Julia Kapichnikova, a young primary school teacher from Tambov. In 2012, she was appointed as an observer at one of the polling stations. Julia honestly did her job. Recorded violations - stuffing, postscript 600 votes.

At the end of the voting, Kapichnikova refused to sign the protocol of the results of the presidential elections. The head teacher of the school where Yulia worked reprimanded her subordinate and advised her to quit. As a result, Kapichnikova's story received wide publicity.

After the hype at school, they left me, but they looked at me askance. In the end, I completed maternity leave, and then she went to another school, - Julia admits. - But since then I have given myself a word - never to participate in the election campaign. I know that in many regions teachers are still fired for disobedience. There are those who leave of their own accord after the elections.

Teacher at a rural school in the Ryazan region Raivo Shtulberg was fired when he refused to agitate the people before the elections in 2015 (In the Ryazan region, the regional Duma was elected - "MK") for a particular batch. The man posted a revealing video online, where he posted the truth about forcing teachers to vote. He said that subsidies were promised to the village for "worthy votes". However, in past years, the villagers did not see the results of such injections of money.

Raivo Stulberg. Photo from personal archive

After that, the director of the school where Shtulberg worked advised the teacher to quit for good. Raivo wrote a letter of resignation of their own free will.

I can't say anything about the last elections, Raivo Shtulberg says. - I have not had anything to do with school for a year now and I hope that I never will. Former colleagues also did not say anything. They are afraid for their places.

In my time, the authorities adhered to such a formulation that teachers are not forced, but asked to agitate. That is, a person, it seems, can refuse, he will not get anything for it. The school principal then directly told me: “People asked me to distribute leaflets, am I going to refuse people?” The head of the RONO was also asked - other people from above. I suspect that those are also “asked”.

There are pawns in schools, and each of them is served as best he can, so that the authorities notice and note. There are no ends, the chain is too long. Well, the "crime" to start for stuffing and so on will be on the "switchman", that is, on the teacher. As far as I know, the sensational criminal case that has now been opened against the head teacher of the Nizhny Novgorod school is almost the first in the entire history of electoral stuffing. Maybe she'll get off with a fine or get a suspended sentence. But a person's nerves will fray. And yet, “he was under investigation” is a serious stigma for a teacher.

Anton Popov, a teacher from the city of Puteets also tried to fight for the truth. True, his story is not connected with the elections. But he also has something to say about the participation of teachers in the elections.

Anton Popov. Photo from personal archive

I once complained about one student who had no brakes. Then I even sent a video from the lessons to Putin's reception room. He asked in a letter to provide the school with at least some cheap video cameras so that he could prove how disgusting this teenager was behaving. As a result, the director forced me to write a letter of resignation. I left school. I worked as a programmer in a hospital for six months. But in September he returned to school. Nobody wanted to take my place - there was no crowd of people who wanted to teach such children, and even go to a village school for a pittance.

Understand, objectionable teachers are removed everywhere. In this system, the main thing is to be able to bend and obey.

As for the elections, I myself served on the commission this year. My father was the chairman of the precinct. We didn't have any violations. It seems to me that such things happen in crowded cities, where if they are fired, a person will still find a job. In the villages, no one runs the risk of fraudulent elections, how then to look fellow villagers in the eye?

It's easier in the city - you don't know anyone, nobody knows you. A lot more depends on the head of the precinct and on how independent people sit with him on the commission. For example, our members of the commission were pensioners and people who had nothing to do with school. If something is wrong, they will not be silent ...

Finally, we contacted the workers of the teachers' trade union movement. Assuming that there really should know about such stories. We turned to the co-chairman of the Interregional Trade Union of Education Workers "Teacher" Andrey Demidov. The man honestly admitted: “Teachers will not even talk about such things anonymously. Why are they in trouble?"

As the values ​​of the Fraud Index for each case of presidential and parliamentary elections, as well as the referendum, the values ​​of the coefficient of determination of the regression trend line of the desired election result for the current government (voting for the desired candidate and for the desired party in the elections, for the desired answer in the referendum) on the turnout by regions of Russia are used. The index value equal to 0 indicates that the distortion of the election (referendum) results due to the interference of the current government is generally equal to zero. The index value equal to 1 indicates that all the ballots additionally thrown into the ballot boxes (inscribed in the final protocols) were given to only one party or only one candidate in the elections (only one answer in the referendum).

So, for example, a noticeable relationship between the magnitude of voter turnout and their support for the majority political parties in the “elections” of September 18, 2016, there were practically no results (with the exception of the party “ United Russia and - to a much lesser extent - the Communist Party). The coefficient of determination of the trend line of voting for EP, depending on the voter turnout, turned out to be 0.95:

It is this value that became the value of the Voting Fraud Index for September 18, 2016 in the upper graph.

Available official data Central Election Commission, as well as the results of calculations of the corrected (actual) turnout of voters and the corrected (actual) number of votes cast for the United Russia, carried out by S. Shpilkin, allow us to estimate the absolute and relative scale of falsifications during the so-called. "parliamentary elections" in Russia in 2007-2016. Their main results are summarized in the following table.

The scale of falsifications during the “elections” in State Duma Russia in 2007-2016

On September 18, a single voting day was held in Russia, the Russians elected deputies of the State Duma from party lists and single-member constituencies, as well as deputies to the bodies local government. The turnout in the elections this year was a record low, following the results of processing 93% of the ballots, it amounted to 47.81%. Rain sorted out the results of the vote.

What happened to the State Duma

• Only four parties were able to get into the State Duma - United Russia (54.42% of the vote), the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (13.52% of the vote), the Liberal Democratic Party (13.28% of the vote) and A Just Russia (6.17% of the vote). The LDPR almost managed to overtake the communists, the party had a chance for the first time since 1995 to take a place above the third. In these elections, A Just Russia has a large drop in the number of votes cast for the party: against the backdrop of protest activity in 2011, it gained 13.24%. United Russia in the last election received a little more than 49% of the vote.
• As a result of voting, United Russia received 343 mandates (140 on party lists and 203 on single-mandate constituencies) and a constitutional majority in the State Duma. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation will have 42 mandates (34 on party lists, seven on single-member lists), the Liberal Democratic Party - 39 mandates (34 party and 5 single-member), A Just Russia - 23 mandates (16 on party lists, seven on single-member). For comparison, according to the results of the elections in 2011, United Russia received 238 mandates.
• According to the legislation, those parties that gain 3% of the votes receive budget funding in the amount of 110 rubles multiplied by the number of votes cast for this party. In 2011, such a party was Yabloko, the party was entitled to almost 248 million rubles. In these elections, the party could not repeat the previous result and received only 1.85% of the vote. The result that was closest to the three percent threshold was for the “Communists of Russia” - 2.35% of the vote. According to the results of the draw in the CEC, they took second place in a ballot with a similar name and almost identical emblem to the Communist Party, which could have brought them additional votes.
• Well-known opposition candidates failed to get into the State Duma. Dmitry Gudkov, who ran for Yabloko in Moscow in the Tushinsky district, could not get around the leader - Gennady Onishchenko. Lev Shlosberg, who also ran for Yabloko, but in the Pskov district, did not even make it into the top three. Maria Baronova, who, with the support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, ran in the Central District of Moscow, also did not make it into the top three. Its main competitor, Andrei Zubov from PARNAS, took third place in the district.

Reporting violations

• Pamfilova called these elections the most transparent, but there were reports of violations. On the Golos traffic map, for example, more than 400 messages are indicated in Moscow, more than 200 in St. Petersburg and Samara, and almost 100 in Saratov. investigative committee already checking on the fact of election fraud at the polling station in Rostov-on-Don, and in Dagestan, one of the polling stations at all.

Single-member constituencies

• United Russia won in 203 single-mandate constituencies out of 225. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Just Russia won seven victories each, and the Liberal Democratic Party won in five constituencies. Civil Platform and Motherland have one victory each in single-mandate constituencies. In most cases, the parties did not face competition from United Russia.
• In 18 single-mandate constituencies, United Russia did not nominate strong contenders. The heads of key committees and its supporters from other parties remained. United Russia vacated two seats for small parties: the leaders of Rodina and Civic Platform Alexei Zhuravlev and Rifat Shaikhutdinov. In Adygea, Vladislav Reznik decided to run not from United Russia, but as an independent candidate after the Spanish prosecutor's office put him on the international wanted list on suspicion of involvement in organized crime.

Elections in the regions

• Elections to 39 regional parliaments were also held on the single voting day. Most of them will have four parliamentary parties, but in some regions other political forces have also entered the legislative assemblies. Yabloko members entered the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the Pskov region. Also, the "Party of Growth" passed to the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
• Elected on September 18 and the heads of the region. In all regions, the governors who were acting heads of the subjects won. In the Chechen region, Ramzan Kadyrov won a preliminary victory, in the Tula region - the former bodyguard of the president, Alexei Dyumin. In Komi, Sergey Gaplikov won, in the Tver region - a native of the special services Igor Rudenya, in the Ulyanovsk region - Sergey Morozov, in Tuva - Sholban Kara-ool, in the Trans-Baikal Territory - Natalya Zhdanova.

Photo: Kirill Kallinikov / RIA Novosti

As values ​​of the Falsification Index for each case of presidential and parliamentary elections, as well as a referendum, the values ​​of the coefficient of determination of the regression trend line of the desired election result for the current government (voting for the desired candidate and for the desired party in the elections, for the desired answer in the referendum) on the turnout are used voters by regions of Russia. The index value equal to 0 indicates that the distortion of the election (referendum) results due to the interference of the current government is generally equal to zero. The index value equal to 1 indicates that all the ballots additionally thrown into the ballot boxes (inscribed in the final protocols) were given to only one party or only one candidate in the elections (only one answer in the referendum).

So, for example, there was practically no noticeable connection between the turnout and their support of most political parties in the “elections” of September 18, 2016 (with the exception of the United Russia party and, to a much lesser extent, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation). The coefficient of determination of the trend line of voting for EP, depending on the voter turnout, turned out to be 0.95:

It is this value that became the value of the Voting Fraud Index for September 18, 2016 in the upper graph.

The available official data of the Central Election Commission, as well as the results of calculations of the corrected (actual) voter turnout and the corrected (actual) number of votes cast for the EP, carried out by S. Shpilkin, allow us to estimate the absolute and relative scale of falsifications during the so-called. "parliamentary elections" in Russia in 2007-2016. Their main results are summarized in the following table.

The scale of fraud during the "elections" to the State Duma of Russia in 2007-2016.

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Democracy ... democracy - how much meanness and lies are hidden in this word! Such my definition of the essence of democracy will probably surprise many people! But, knowing why I gave such a definition of democracy, the reader will be surprised even more! I'll start with the very concept of DEMOCRACY!

Democracy appeared in the slave state when the slave owners got together to develop a single set of rules and laws in order to better manage the slaves! Yes, they came together to create a single code of laws and regulations in order to better manage their slaves, and so that there would be no differences in this matter among individual slave owners. It is probably not worth explaining what and whose interests these laws reflected in the "free" and "democratic" slave state. And although they will immediately try to give you an explanation that the word DEMOCRACY arose from the Greek word DEMOS, which means - THE PEOPLE! But, at the same time, as is often the case with those suffering from memory loss in the right places, they will forget to add that only free people, the vast majority of whom were slave owners, were considered DEMOS or people in this state! And they will forget to report that the main population was precisely SLAVES, who were not even considered people! Isn't it true that little has changed since then?!