Bulev said that the results of the check are “at a fairly high degree of readiness” regarding signatures in support of Malinkovich. He also stated that the sheets presented by Nadezhdin were being checked.
Bulaev said that “there are mistakes that cause surprise.”
“When there is some inaccuracy in the spelling, the Central Election Commission, at the proposal of the working group, as a rule, does not take it into account, does not count it, but considers that this is acceptable. But when we see dozens and more than a dozen people who are no longer in this world, and they gave a signature, the question arises about the integrity of the ethical standards that are used, including by signature collectors,” TASS quotes him.
According to Bulaev, “to some extent, the candidate is directly involved in this.”
He proposed inviting Malinkovich and Nadezhdin to a meeting of the working group on February 5 to verify documents and signatures submitted by nominees in order to demonstrate to them the results of verification procedures, as well as “to provide them with protocols on those comments” that were identified by the election commission during the verification .
Earlier, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Russia, Ella Pamfilova, said that the Central Election Commission could complete the verification of signatures by February 7 and make a decision on all remaining nominated candidates.