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Voter Intimidation: The Case of Russia
Speaker: Ms. Lene Wetteland (Norwegian Helsinki Committee).
Chair: Ms. Oksana Antonenko (LSE)

Lene Wetteland will analyse the challenges connected with short term election observation by drawing upon examples from her field experience in the former Soviet Union, focusing in particular on voter intimidation in the Russian Federation.

Both voters and independent observers are subjected to increasing pressure as Election Day approaches, as the incumbent aims to legitimise the elections through high turnout. Short term observers have a possibility to document or even prevent election fraud on voting day through their presence, but also risk partaking in this legitimization. Wetteland will show several examples of how this pressure plays out, how civil society actors deal with these challenges and how the voters, in growing numbers, contribute to disclosing the violations towards the presidential elections on the 18th of March 2018.