Again The Swamp? Duma elections will be held with violations of ballot rigging sure the majority of people in Russia
– People in Russia doubt that the upcoming State Duma elections will be “open, honest, transparent.” This is evidenced by the results of a survey of non-governmental research organization “Levada-Center”. According to these data, public opinion little changed since 2011, when there were mass protests.
Despite the fact that 22% of respondents are confident of abuses during the elections do not, it is only 1% more of those who believes that the regional election commissions, the results will be rigged. Another 13% believe that fraud is involved, the Central election Commission of the Russian Federation. This percentage significantly decreased compared to November 2011. Then in the rigging, the CEC suspected 31% of Russian citizens.
In General it can be noted that the CEC trust, more than half of inhabitants of Russia: 12% – trust Commission is still 41% more inclined to it. However, in the fall of 2011 before the elections to the state Duma of the VI convocation the credibility of the CEC was a total of even slightly above, the total number of “trusting” was 46%. Despite this, after the announcement there were a lot of accusations of fraud, which was accompanied by mass protests.
Now the advantage in the election campaign for the “party of power” confident 18% of respondents. 9% of the population believe that the evil power of the party will not be able to participate in the elections, 8% predicted exclusion from the electoral lists of “objectionable” candidates.
At the same time, 26% of respondents believe that among the “abuses” in the elections will be vote buying. 15% of Russian citizens believe that it is possible from the authorities, 11% – of the opposition.
To the question, you are ready to sell their votes in the upcoming elections, 63% answered in the negative. 11% would agree to this Scam for 5 thousand rubles, 5% – for a substantial amount.
Overall, more than half of respondents believe that the abuse will have very serious (14%) and serious (40%) influence on the election results. Another 35% believe the impact will be, but “not very serious”. Only 5% believe that “almost no impact” on the results will be.
