Alleged ballot box stuffing filmed at Russian polling station

A web camera video appears to show several men feeding dozens of ballot papers into an electronic ballot box at a polling station in the Russian province of Dagestan amid claims of widespread election fraud in the country's presidential elections.

4:08PM GMT 05 Mar 2012 - The Telegraph.co.uk



Numerous videos of the incident taken from the official polling station web cam have been posted online.

The Russian Central Elections Commission said it had cancelled the results from the polling station in the Tarumov district but denied any electoral fraud, instead blaming officials of mistakes.

"This was not a case of ballot stuffing, it was a mistake, a fateful error of the district election officials," the country's Central Elections Commission Chairman, Vladimir Churov said.

Mr Churov explained that officals had added postal votes to the electronic ballot machines before the polling station had closed and counting had started.