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.
“There’s dead man’s signatures on this paper”
“What do you mean? They’re all standing right here in front of you”
bang bang bang
“See? Three dead man’s signatures”
I was seriously wondering how many conscripts might have signed before getting killed in Ukraine.
Wouldn’t it be strange to require 100,000 signatures and stop exactly at that number? I feel like they’re just buying time with this tactic.
He needs 100k signatures, but can file only 105k signatures.
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.
“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.
How kind of them. They’re trying to save him from mysteriously falling out of a window.
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.
“Dead souls”… were they dead before patinas investigators identified them?
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.
Yeah I think this is the most likely explanation, like surely he knows he can’t win but he is a symbol that there is still opposition to Putin.
And if he dies he’s a martyr. Usually takes an event like that to knock the dominoes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
