According to a number of sources, in Russian elections of a very different scale, cases of the use of fountain burns with disappearing ink are periodically recorded. Soon after the recording is made, it evaporates and the form becomes available for fraud. We checked whether this is so.

Here's what the famous journalist Alexander Minkin wrote in his essay "Hello Obama"From the Cycle" Letters to the President "in 2009:

“If in America compared to us dishonest elections, it’s scary to think about what is happening there. Our elections are completely honest, fully comply with democratic standards. At the same time, we use endangered ink, vote of the chest and dead (all - for “United Russia”), in the newspapers of the article on general falsifications, in courts claims, sociologists mathematically prove falsehood ”.

Some media that illuminated the vote on constitutional amendments in 2020, Included Among the most popular fakes, a video in which the fact of using disappearing ink was obvious, but it turned out that it was made in Kazakhstan.

First of all, we note that the disappearing ink must be distinguished from sympathetic (invisible), which have the opposite effect: manifest after some time subject to certain conditions. The latter during the elections is pointless to put voters. But the fountain burns with disappearing ink for such purposes are quite effective - you can buy them For a penny, and they work reliably.

Let's go through some cases of using disappearing ink in the elections in Russia in the 21st century.

The first loud call on this topic sounded in 2009. Then the head of the Fair Russia faction in the State Duma Nikolai Levichv showed reporters to reporters confirming the use of disappearing ink in the elections to the Volgograd Regional Duma, held on March 1. In particular, on one of video recordings A member of the election commission itself demonstrates the effect of disappearing ink: a note made by a pen taken from the voting cabin after a while disappears from a sheet of paper. Typically, only 285 invalid ballots were discovered on the aforementioned section No. 389 on the election day, and most of them were clean. According to the deputy, on March 6–8, some of them passed into the category of real ones: in the ballots there was a note on voting for United Russia. The use of disappearing ink then managed to fix in six Volgograd polling stations.

On December 4, 2011, an event of a completely different rank took place in Russia - elections to the State Duma. Here, too, it was not without disappearing ink, and it was recorded at a high level. So, the deputy head of the CEC Leonid Ivlev on the same day declaredthat in the capital, representatives of one of the parties used a pen with endangered ink. “Technology we have known since 2009. All this was discovered in a timely manner, it was not possible to allow a violation of lovers of such actions, but the fact was confirmed, ”Ivlev said then, referring, apparently to Volgograd events. On the same day, the BBC website published video, taken by activists in another polling station. The frames show how the notes made by fountain shoes from the cabins for voting are easily wiped with a special pencil. Then the pen with disappearing ink was found in the voting booth at the polling station No. 627 in Kolpin.

A few weeks have passed, and the case first reached prosecutor's officeAlong the way, for the first time going beyond the balloon. The authors of the appeal claimed that the penallated with disappearing ink was used when signing the PEC protocol in the 334th section of St. Petersburg. As a result, with a copy of the protocol signed by the Chairman of the PEC in the presence of observers, this signature disappeared, only seals remained. The examination conducted by the independent center "Petroexpert" revealed traces of the use of disappearing ink. Moreover, the data that entered the system entered the system GAS "Elections", They differed from those that appeared in the issues issued by observers from five batch copies of protocols. The actual ballots suddenly became 300 more than they recorded at first, and United Russia received 369 votes in appendage at all:

In 2012, in the election of the head of the city of Degtyarsk, the Sverdlovsk region again They were discovered Handles with invisible ink. Then they were replaced by normal directly during the vote, but how many people managed to use them, history is silent. According to the head of the Oblazbirkom, after the verification, all the handles were seized and compiled relevant acts.

In 2013, on a single voting day, the insidious handles were Found On the site in the Moscow region and recorded by the local election commission. And in Khakassia in 2018 in the election of the head of the region - immediately on Three areas. Moreover, in the latter case, the candidate from United Russia lost the elections in the first round, and refused the second.

And these are far from all cases when the use of disappearing ink during voting in Russia was found by eyewitnesses. Many complaints, starting in 2011, can be found on the project website "Election violations". Unfortunately, fraud with disappearing ink is not a conspiracyology, but a very real phenomenon.