“Not so long ago there was a single voting day - the first EDG since 2016, in which I did not take any part...

“Not so long ago there was a single voting day - the first EDG since 2016, in which I did not take any part. I was sad about this, remembering the elections of past years. And I thought if I shouldn’t tell a couple of funny stories related to the elections, their organization and observation of them. If I can’t participate now, then at least I’ll remember the past, long past. I’ll tell you one story now, as a test. And at the end there will be a poll whether you, dear subscribers, want to continue this in the same spirit. I encourage you to vote in the poll. Every vote is important! =)
“How I became an anti-Soviet”
In August 2016, I firmly decided to join the precinct election commission in my native Frunzensky district of St. Petersburg. At that time, recruitment was just underway for the reserves before the parliamentary elections, and I successfully became a member of the PEC with the right to a decisive vote. The Yabloko party sent me. 
My site was located at the school, at the beginning of the street. Yaroslav Hasek, very close to the Kupchino metro station. (By the way, a couple of uninteresting facts: at the exit from this metro there is a bronze monument to the brave soldier Schweik, J. Hasek was the Bolshevik commandant of the city of Bugulma in Tatarstan during the civil war, I love and respect the work of J. Hasek).
I went and met the election commission in advance and agreed that on the Saturday before voting day I would come to help prepare the polling station premises. In our case, it was an ordinary school office. On the indicated day, I arrived there, helped carry all sorts of ballot boxes and screens (they were instead of booths for secret voting), and then received a somewhat unusual task.
As you might guess, ballot papers are printed in advance. They arrive at the polling station a couple of days before the elections. The commission recounts them, puts its stamp on each form, two members of the commission leave their signatures in the upper right corner of the ballot. But before the 2016 elections, another event happened: from the elections to the legislative assembly of St. Petersburg, at the request of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the list of the Communists of Russia party was removed. And the ballots have already been printed! And these incomprehensible second communists are there. The law provides for such a possibility: a party removed from the elections is simply crossed out. So they gave me a ruler, a pen and a stack of ballots. And, I must say, there were a lot of them. A lot - it's about 2.5 thousand. It’s clear that I would have died there alone, and a little later they sent me someone from the commission to reinforce me. As they say, “the fighters’ hand is tired of stabbing.” As a result, I crossed out the “Communists of Russia” party about one and a half thousand times. And when I left the polling station that day, I felt like a real anti-Soviet. 
That's all for today, but in fact this story has a continuation. If you want to periodically read stories in the same spirit, or vice versa, if you are not at all interested in reading this, then vote accordingly in the poll below. Let me remind you that every vote matters!
Yours Vasya N., pre-trial detention center-7, Moscow”