Russian Officials Bar Antiwar Candidate Boris Nadezhdin from Presidential Election
Boris Nadezhdin, a challenger to Putin in Russia's presidential election, claims that the Central Election Commission invalidated signatures in support of his candidacy due to its own misspellings during the digitization process, including errors in addresses and names. The CEC rejected over 9,000 of his signatures, prompting Nadezhdin to fight to have a share of them declared valid. Independent journalists suggest his campaign workers may have sabotaged his ballot registration, but supporters dismiss this as a hired hit job.