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January 11, 2002
FLOW OF STATE FUNDING WILL BE COUNTED
[from WPS Monitoring Agency, www.wps.ru/e_index.html]
Central Election Commission head Alexander Veshnyakov and Chair of the Auditing Commission chief Sergei Stepashin recently signed an inter-departmental agreement on sharing information resources. The reseources in question are the state-controlled Vybory computer system, and the Auditing Commission's IT and telecommunications systems.
Veshnyakov said long ago that the expensive ($2.9 billion) Vybory system will not only count votes, but various state structures could use it for their own purposes. The Central Election Commission has already concluded similar agreements with the Duma, the Emergencies Ministry, and the Supreme Court. However, the agreement with the Auditing Commission has a special signficance: the law on political parties is coming into effect, and it stipulates state funding for the election campaigns of some parties.
Stepashin announced, "We audit all organizations that use even a kopeck of state money. That is when we can use the Vybory system, which enables us to quickly and precisely find out for what purposes the state money was used. It will also help calculate the sum of unaccounted money that was used in the course of the campaign."
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