The desire to participate in elections as an observer is a reflection of a person’s active citizenship. In fact, this is the only way to monitor compliance with the law at the voting stage.
Instruction manual
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The requirements for the observer are minimal. It can become not only a citizen of Russia over 18 years old, but also a citizen of another country. The main thing is that he officially represents the media, a candidate or a registered party.
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Contact directly a newspaper, magazine, radio station, online publication that has state registration as a media outlet. Ask if you will agree to issue an observer ID. Such a document may be a temporary press card.
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To become an observer from a party, you do not need to join it at all. Contact the election headquarters of any party. You can find contact information or fill out an application at the following addresses: - "Yabloko" - http://yabloko.ru/control- "Fair Russia" - http://www.spravedlivo.ru/information/districts/- Communist Party - http: //kprf.ru/party/contact/- LDPR - http://www.ldpr.ru/#party/regions- "Just Cause" - http://www.pravoedelo.ru/region- "Patriots of Russia" - http://www.patriot-rus.ru/RegionIf you want to go to the polls as an observer from self-nominated candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, then fill out the form on the page
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You can contact any day, even on election day, but keep in mind that only one observer from a candidate, media or party you want to represent can be present at one polling station.
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Fill out the form at http://www.4mar.ru/watchform.htm or http://nabludatel.org/stat-nablyudatelem. A coordinator will contact you and inform you where and when observer training courses will be held in your region, and will also help you obtain a certificate by contacting representatives of parties and the media specifically in your city. You can also go yourself to the organizer of the initiative group at
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You should be prepared for the elections, know your duties and rights. To do this, the leaders of the party’s election headquarters provide their observers with memos. You can print such a memo by downloading here:
