Mironov Says Voting Prevents Fraud

By The Moscow Times

Oct. 14, 2011

The only way to avoid election fraud is for people to vote in the State Duma elections in December, A Just Russia leader and former Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov told Rossiya-24 in an interview broadcast on Thursday.

To change the existing party monopoly and build a new future, Russians must use their vote, Mironov said.?

"If a large proportion of the electorate does not show up [at the polls], their ballot papers can be redistributed to someone else," Mironov said.

On Wednesday, jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky also urged voters not to sit out the election.

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