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📢 Barred Observers, Inflated Turnout and Stuffed Ballots: REM's Overview of the First Two Voting Days, 18-19 September 2026

In yesterday’s report (), REM focused on coercion to vote. Today, we present an overview of direct violations of voting rules and

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📢 Coercion to Vote: The Real Machinery Behind Russia's 2026 Turnout Numbers — REM summary It is unclear what distorts Russian election results more in the regime's favor — coercion to vote or outright falsification and fraud. Some types of fraud, such as ballot-stuffing, are

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🗳️ Manufactured Turnout Under Occupation: Russian CEC Reports Up to 80%+ "Participation" in Occupied Ukraine

By the close of Day 2, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) updated total national turnout to 44.6%.

On the occupied territories, the high ...turnout was driven

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📊 Day 2 Closes at 44.4% Turnout: "Electoral Sultanates" Surge as Siberian & Western Regions Lag By the end of the second voting day (21:00 MSK), total turnout in the #StateDuma election reached 44.38% according to the Central Election Commission. The contrast across regions

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📊 Day 2 Closes at 44.4% Turnout: "Electoral Sultanates" Surge as Siberian & Western Regions Lag

By the end of the second voting day (21:00 MSK), total turnout in the #StateDuma election reached 44.38% according to the Central Election Commission.

The contrast ...across regions

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🚨 Abnormal "Home Voting" Fraud Exposed in Leningrad Region

At Precinct Election Commission No. 967 in Kudrovo (#Leningrad Region), election observers documented severe irregularities during portable box inspections.

Mobile voting boxes — used to collect ...individual votes at

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Every tenth candidate barred from the Duma race: how the ballot thinned out

Nearly 500 of 4,856 nominees (10.2%) never made it onto the ballot. They were denied registration, removed from the race, or withdrew.

🔹 One in three Yabloko candidates was removed. More ...than half of

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Ballot Stuffing by Election Commission Member Caught Live on Camera in Mari El

At a polling station in the Republic of #MariEl, a video livestream captured ballot stuffing. An election commission member waited until the observers had left the room and then put two ...batches of

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“Classic Russian Election”: Ballot Stuffing Caught on Camera A ballot-stuffing incident at a polling station in #Voronezh was caught on video by an election observer. The footage appears to show ballots being unlawfully placed into the ballot box. https://t.co/zHJZj430OM

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64 Opposition Candidates Barred From Russia’s Elections Over “Extremism”, Alleged Copyright Violations and Foreign Assets — Verstka

The number of candidates opposed to #UnitedRussia who were removed or denied participation in the ongoing #StateDuma and ...regional legislative

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🤡 Voter in #Komi Given Ballot Already Marked for #UnitedRussia

#CPRF State Duma MP Oleg Mikhailov claims that the ballots already had marks next to United Russia. 48 such ballots were discovered (see video).

The Komi Election Commission has launched an ...investigation. The

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📊 Breaking Down Russia’s Duma Election Turnout: Early Surge Driven by Administrative Coercion

By 14:00 MSK on Day 2, Russia's CEC reported an inflated turnout of 32.58% (~36M voters) — significantly outpacing 2021 numbers. But a breakdown of the data reveals ...that this "voter

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70% Turnout in Online Voting on Day One of Russia’s Elections — Expert: Result of Voter Coercion Turnout in Russia’s federal remote electronic voting (#REV) system reached 70% by the end of the first day of voting. According to the REV counting system (https://t.co/zGz4TCs1Bg),

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