22:10, 18 September 2016

Polling station destroyed in Dagestan

A broken ballot box and torn and trampled down ballot papers at the polling station in the village of Gotsatl. Screenshot of a video from the "Dagestan Online" community on Facebook, facebook.com/groups/dagonline

A ballot box at the polling station in the village of Gotsatl was broken by a group of young people, who supported the pro-regime candidate and rushed into the station, a local resident told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Social media have posted photos from the station, where torn down ballots can be seen.

Today, Dagestan held voting at elections of Russian State Duma MPs, of deputies of the National Assembly and self-government bodies of municipalities. Numerous violations were recorded.

The incident at the polling station in the village of Gotsatl, Khunzakh District, occurred in the evening, when it became clear that the winner was the single-mandate candidate Abusupyan Kharkharov, not the candidate from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Partyu Abdulmajid Magaramov, said one of the villagers. A huge number of ballot papers at the station were torn and trampled down.

"They say they began stuffing packs of ballot papers into boxes; and some people did not like it; finally, a brawl broke out," Zarema Abduragimova, a user of the Facebook, wrote in her page.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Oleg Ionov

Source: CK correspondent