VOA标准英语2012--Poll Watchers Hope to Cut Fraud in Russia Vote
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(二月)
Poll Watchers Hope to Cut Fraud in Russia Vote
Row upon row of Russians take lecture notes in a university classroom on a Saturday afternoon. They are not poor students.
They are just 50 faces from an army of 200,000 Russians volunteering to work as poll watchers, trying to fight fraud when Russians vote Sunday for president.
One volunteer, Anna Bugrova, says reports from friends and family about fraud in the December parliamentary elections made her angry.
Burgova says she read about fraud on the Internet and realized it was widespread. As a result, she volunteered as a poll watcher.
Her instructor 1 is Matvey Petukhov, of the Citizen Observer monitoring group. He teaches volunteers how to spot ballot 2 stuffing and multiple voting, but he also trains them in dealing 3 with the police and filing legal complaints with prosecutors 4.
Petukhov predicts the expected surge in watchers at voting stations will prompt fraudsters to concentrate on absentee ballots 5 and home voting. He estimates volunteer observers will monitor voting at all polling stations in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Russia's other big cities.
At Carnegie Moscow Center, analyst 6 Masha Lipman cautions the poll watching movement may not extend beyond big cities.
"The effort to observe the election will hardly be nationwide," said Lipman. "In Moscow it will make a difference. However the regions are different and provinces are very different from big urban centers."
To lighten up the four-hour training classes, an ad agency produced an observer training video for free.
After the cries of fraud in the December elections, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced a $500,000r program to install two web cameras at each of Russia's nearly 100,000 polling stations.
But this move did not convince information technology expert Vyacheslav Filippov, who decided 7 to become a poll watcher. Filippov says a lot of vote stealing can take place off camera and that the public will not have guaranteed access to the videos.
A 23-year-old psychologist, Ekaterina Korovkina, says she is prepared to stay at her polling place for 20 hours on Sunday, watching for fraud. Korovkina says that she has the support of friends, family and her students and that she is prepared to stand and fight if she detects fraud.
Korovkina may have to fight. After Russia's December parliamentary vote, voting experts studied the results for The Wall Street Journal. They concluded that fraud clouded 21 percent of the total, or 14 million votes.
- The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
- The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。
- The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
- The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
- This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
- His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
- They're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》