Independent Presidential Candidate Gets on Russia Ballot

Mikhail Prokhorov has been put on the ballot for the Russian Presidential election, to be held in March. He is one of five candidates who qualified. He needed 2,000,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot, and he obtained them. See this story.


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  1. Richard:

    Just out of curiosity, do you happen to know roughly what the current number of registered voters in the Russian Federation?

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  3. http://www.idea.int/publications/vt/upload/Voter%20registration.pdf

    The 1993 constitution has
    no special section concerning the suffrage
    (there are only very general provisions),
    which remains regulated by different federal
    laws and federal constitutional laws. Active
    suffrage is granted to all citizens aged 18
    and over (the age limit is not a constitutional
    norm and some politicians and experts,
    especially those from the southern regions,
    suggest bringing the age limit down to 16).
    There are only two restrictions on suffrage:
    serving convicts and citizens admitted incapable by a court have no right to vote (persons under criminal investigation have this
    right).
    Voter registration in Russia is conducted
    periodically by the public authorities in an
    automatic manner. All Russian citizens are
    on the lists of voters compiled by constituency election commissions on the basis
    of information from the heads of local
    municipalities. Registration occurs twice a
    year (by 1 January and 1 July). The information is passed to a constituency election
    commission immediately after the
    announcement of an election date. The basis
    for registration is permanent or preferential
    residence in the constituency. The list of voters is supposed to be made public no later
    than 20 days before the election. Any citizen
    has the right to verify it and point out errors,
    if any, and a constituency election commission is supposed to either correct errors or
    provide a written reply within 24 hours.
    Citizens who were omitted from the list or
    became residents in the constituency after
    the list had been compiled are included in an
    additional list on the basis of documents that
    identify the person and his or her residence.

  4. Of passing curiosity, is Arno still contracting petitions in Russia? I’m curious whether any of the petitions, including this one, are being contracted to US or other foreign petition companies.

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