The Central Election Commission invalidated 9,147 signatures in support of Boris Nadezhdin.
The CEC checked 60 thousand signatures, the permissible percentage of defects by law is 5%.
Boris Nadezhdin told the CEC that he is in second place after Vladimir Putin in social polls
Nadezhdin said that it was technically impossible to check all of the CEC’s claims to the signatures in the time given by the CEC. CEC Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova refused to extend the deadline for reviewing Nadezhdin’s signatures.
