vote. The authors of the document were members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, including Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov and Valery Rashkin, who recently became accused in criminal proceedings for illegal hunting.
The Communists pointed out the serious shortcomings of the electronic voting system, which in their view emerged during the recent elections. The explanatory statement states that CEC leader Ella Pamfilova “partially acknowledged the current shortcomings of the Moscow electronic voting system and stated that the metropolitan platform would not be used in the future.”
Federation on Pushkin Square unauthorized mass action demanding the cancellation of election results. A month later, Ivan Melnikov, the party's first deputy chairman of the party's central committee, announced the Communists' intention to appeal to the Constitutional Court.