Fake Signatures Thwart Campaign
From Times Wire Reports
Russian ultranationalist lawmaker Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky has been disqualified from a governor’s race after election officials discovered faked signatures on nominating petitions, officials said. As a result, the electoral commission in the Siberian region of Sverdlovsk refused to register Zhirinovsky in the Aug. 29 gubernatorial elections, officials said on Russia’s NTV television. At a Moscow rally, Zhirinovsky said he wasn’t giving up yet.
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