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More modern methods were also used to falsify the votes. Three candidates – the chairman of the Russian Congress of the Peoples of the Caucasus, Alia Totorkulov, a representative of the Lezgins, Ruslan Kurbanov, and the head of the Civil Force party, Aleksandr Ryavkin – were removed for vote manipulation. Rostelecom, which provided technical support for the elections, said that votes for these candidates were cast from the same computer. At the same time, the organizers had previously stated that they had no technical ability to track the IP addresses of voters.Gazeta.ru reports.

A few days before the end of the elections, candidates from the “Navalny bloc” – Melkonyants, Lukyanova, Popova and Fedotov –sent an appealto the OP working group, to the presidential administration and to the Minister for Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov with a proposal to check the elections for fraud. The working group reported that this was impossible, since ROI could not find out the IP addresses of those who voted.

As a result, despite the success at the beginning of the voting buy cell phone number listand active work on social networks, no one from the "Navalny bloc" made it into the Public Chamber. The deputy chairman of the "All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation" Bogdan Novorok received the most votes in the elections - 43,314. At the same time, as Navalny emphasizes, Novorok did not write a single post on Twitter or Facebook calling for voting for his candidacy.

In second place is Artem Kiryanov with 43 thousand votes. He is known as the organizer of the picket against US sanctions at the American embassy. Despite the fact that Kiryanov is the chairman of the "Russian Union of Taxpayers", in the OP he will be in charge of the "Education and Science" direction. The author of the song "Go Forward, Vladimir Putin" also turned out to be one of the first, having collected more than 36 thousand votes in the section on combating corruption.

More than 30 thousand voters voted for Kristina Potupchik. In the Public Chamber, she will be engaged in the development of the information society and the media. Nikolay Drozdov and Konstantin Raikin received half as many votes, but this was enough to become leaders in the "Culture and Creativity" category.

The first electronic elections in Russia did not go at all as they were expected announcedROI director Ilya Massukh at the Russian Internet Forum. Even electronic voting was not without falsifications. And this is despite the fact that users were not choosing influential politicians, but members of a consultative organization that few people paid attention to before the May scandals.