well the prime focus right now cabin the central election commission in moscow where the ballots are being counted throughout the night we can get some much more clear numbers there from our correspondent because having a great show but she now joins us live from right in the thick of it at the commission headquarters you catarina bring us up to date what are those figures looking at right now. below any some of my figures are not any different from what you are is sitting there almost twenty two percent of all ballots have been counted by these hour and the outspoken favorite current prime minister vladimir putin is leading with sixty two point three percent of the vote coming second is communist denied his uganda seventeen point five percent of the vote close to eighteen but by the way he was also his party came second during the most recent nationwide state duma election under several to do with the communist party more than twenty two percent of the total vote what's new from the previous hour is that independent candidate billionaire me hope proper was definitely breaking throug

well the official figures from the central election commission of russia is that it has managed to gain sixty four almost sixty four percent sixty three point seven in fact that is almost forty five million people voting for him to be russia's president not he's got of his main rival the leader of the communist party has managed to go on a seventeen point two percent of the votes that is about twelve million people voting for this man for the one who has been running from almost every election campaign since the collapse of the soviet union because of russian tycoon and you come into the politics the first time presidential candidate has managed to go on a seven point eight percent of the vote that's about five million people vote people voting for him liberal democratic leader. at six point two percent four million people voting for him and last but not least again on of leader of the just russia party the former head of the upper house of the russian parliament has managed to go to garner less than four percent of the vote three point eight percent that's two point seven million peopl

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all right catalina great job a live from the central election commission headquarters of course we'll be joining you throughout the night here on r.g.p. as we continue our special coverage was a very chilly night tonight temperatures well below freezing it's no it doesn't stop people coming out in the two hundred thousand they think they are in this and others around the city as well up to thirteen. were sanctioned for tonight those who are pushing currently has the majority of votes you can single you screens for the past couple of hours he spoke the past four years is probably history of course after serving two presidential term escape true things are out his company brought it to victory because they're pretty use of they perceive it to be true either. my first question is really what's the atmosphere there like what i wonder what the reaction was when to the stage where about fifteen minutes ago in the national square behind this along with president with and it was quite astonishing to see that call this thing from a clinton for what appeared to be tears but he turned his face j

movement thirty of their own websites so it's a very different conclusions that of the state to election commission also the independent poultry body based in russia where they say that putin actually what about fifty percent of the votes so the right isn't that the private won the election rather by how much the margin is in question here they also allege it three thousand took place on voting day itself actually flew gillard should ballot stuffing also what we told ourselves it's come just cried a number of people said the awol polling station a vote during a number of times individually now the situation have refuted this so same in fact there are certain circumstances but people plus the police stations. to give them the opportunity to vote to election commission of also being forced to answer one of the issues this is a video that's been loaded itself a polling station in the russian republic of dagestan in the north caucuses there is allegedly shows ballot stuffing taking place central action commission said that any results from individual polling station would be counted towards the end vot

people go to one particular polling station of votes a multiple amount of times it's a true election commissions are future based saying that there were circumstances of people bussed to polling stations they say though it was part of measures to ensure that such people especially workers to get the rights of but also the central issue commissions how to answer questions here when it comes to a video that's been uploaded on to you shoot this is purge of all polling station in the russian republic of dagestan in the north caucuses where there's allegations of ballot stuffing taking place the election commission estates responded saying that any of the voting taking place in that polling station will be in old camps the end result. so you're going to how have the opposition leaders been taking this news of the very prominent opposition candidates and presidential candidates have been outspoken on this issue very critical indeed now. russian billionaire get about thirty thousand monitors helping oversee election process they come up with four thousand irregularities if they want to take to court al

mention that they were some of the observers did see a lot of breaking at the elections even though the electoral commission has said you know these elections have been wanted to very closely that the best monitored elections in russian history in fact you know they had some discrepancies according to the communist party and they will be looking into that in the near in the coming weeks and disputing some of those numbers and some of those results betty and it's . just looking at the latest votes coming through from the central election commission on the screen nobody can see it yourself but if you only just joined us here you can see of the sixty four percent so far at this stage of the votes being counted that's what overturned it was sixty three point five minutes last. going down a little bit about half percent just last but still that's more than many people were predicting you get for the first time runner and he's already ahead. certainly a veteran runner for president not a happy camper sure not to count the old v.p. come tonight or just six point eight percent he was hoping i think to get at least

the federal elections commission is it illegal for five one c three is to gauge an election or well before citizens united there are many restrictions because they want to see fairies and see for years. they receive corporate money and where they can receive corporate money after citizens united. corporations are people now yes well go. because you can see three's have to be issue based but they can you know put a candidates name say they're bad on an issue run an ad or have a bus tour and it's perfectly fine so a lot of this is bus tours well it was multi-faceted let me just throw a quick example in one race in colorado and it isn't in dozens of races but betsy markey cory gardner benchmark of a democrat sitting congresswoman if you looked into the empty seat you saw maybe five or ten thousand given to the republican opponent really everybody by the coast but there were millions spent they had to i think tank in colorado called the independent institute which set organizers to hold tea party rallies to put out talking points against betsy markey they had ads that didn't show up because th

the central election commission says he won the country's election. that mean he's renewed his grip on power for another six years. but opposition groups claim there was electoral fraud. putin denies their accusations. >> election workers have counted most of the ballots. the election commission reports putin has a significant lead with more than 64% of the vote. putin is 59. he served two terms as president between 2000 and 2008. he spent the past four years as prime minister under current president med vef. he managed toim prove his support in latter stages of the campaign by pledging stability for russia. despite putin's victory will is widespread voter dissatisfaction. tens of thousands of people have started protest. but few strong leaders are emerged to spearhead the opposition. >> reporter: the protests over the last several months suggest support for putin has waivered. still, the results of the election suggest a majority of voters saw him as the best choice available. a number of groups opposed to putin participated in their protests but opp

have election two thousand and ten how do you manage to do this without showing up in federal election commission forms over two years out from the two thousand and ten midterm elections the first major election after systems united and we're just figuring out how the koch brothers manipulate the election and elected the tea party congress one of the strategies they used was to use a network of nonprofit organizations that don't disclose their donors or their spending we just received a financial audit of one of the organizations they use elect republicans and what's interesting here we're seeing all this electioneering activity activity that explicitly organized to help you know republicans beat democrats but none of it was disclosed with the financial or with it excuse me the f.e.c. the federal elections commission it illegal for five one c three is to engage in electioneering well before existence united there are many restrictions because i want to see thirty's and see for as you know they receive corporate money and where they can receive corporate money after citizens united though that's w

the central election commission reports putin has a significant lead with more than 64% of the vote. communist party leader in second with 17%. the 59-year-old putin served two terms as president between 2000 and 2008. he spent the past four years as prime minister. he suffered from a vote rigging scandal in the lower hours. they organized protests since. he promised to improve support in latter stages of the campaign by pledging stability for the nation. a lack of viable contenders also worked in his favor. putin will serve a six year term as president once his victory becomes official. >>> japanese government officials say they'll monitor putin's new administration. they want to explore ways to resolve a territorial dispute with russia. the countries have been arguing over a group of four islands off northern japan for more than 60 years. soviet troops seized the islands after world war ii. japanese officials have been requesting they be returned ever since. japanese government officials welcoming putin's victory. they say he understands the importance of the dispute, and is willin

change the law do you have to change the instruction for the fall for the election commission so they have to do this they have to go and tell them under a camera and not elsewhere they have to show the product how the camera like this so we did not use the loo again they had to do it right know that there is a clear instruction from the central election commission. and they have to do so so this whole procedure has been written yes and if somebody breaks the procedure will you be punished penalize the what. he's saying forgot everything. of all the. controlling members people people who control the people there will remind him year they will remind this people from different candidates and different parties so everybody. process of installing the cameras and is it was done in a very open way. a very interesting thing one where we're talking now where there's one literally hours before before the upcoming elections there was lots of criticism in the world in the russia itself about the the manner in which the previous election was conducted and in the parliamentary election even disap

again they had to do it just right know that there is a clear instruction from the central election commission. and if they have to do so this whole procedure has been written yes and if somebody breaks the procedure will you be punished and penalize the what. you say for life everything that is of all there is a. controlling member so you people people who control the people they will remove your ten years they will remind you this people are from different candidates and different parties so everybody. process of installing the cameras and he is it was done in a very open way. a very interesting thing one where we're talking now or when there's one literally hours before before the upcoming elections there was lots of criticism in the world in the russia itself about the the manner in which the previous election was conducted and in the parliamentary actually willing to say yeah yeah this aggression so this is true but in three months time now russia will run the most transparent election there ever took place in the world. in my opinion yes it is certainly looks this way. yes from the it wa

earlobes of the sun you bring your moralist a few moments to listen for correspondent the central election commission on the reaction in the atmosphere to condit's headquarters as well as experts of poring over those figures as they come in continue to do so voting on it safe and russia's presidential election well but very shortly. the official policy allocation giong phone called touch from the i choose option slipshod see my. city along the i r t's mine field costs and the street now in the palm of your posts. on the wall she told call. he. has. seen. the at. least some. luck. on. from. home.

some violations registered in the course of this voting the official figure of the central election commission is that eighty nine violations across the country while the opposition claims that there were more than three thousand violations those were irregularities or possible false occasions and always of the ballots during the course of the election we understand that the main concern is the so-called carousel voting when a large group of people came to polling stations to cast their ballots and they did that at several polling stations across their cities but the central action commission explains that those buses bringing people at the stations were completely legitimate and official way of placing a ballot for those who were not able to make it into the polling stations for the absentees the people who were basically working on this day so that's how the central action condition has explained the accusations the allegations of this so-called carousel voting there's also been a very serious incident and one polling station in the republic of dagestan where a video a live web camera record

taking place now since then essential election commission announced any results from their individual polling station we know what counts in the end result jacob was the reaction been from the opposition to the measures put in place to enable a fair and transparent election but really in direct contrast to what we're hearing from those who are. was a mess because it was taking those who fit the etude to the opposition movement will they be very discontent in their view saying that ballot stuffing took place also called carousel see why people descend on mass toward polling station and vote a multiple amount of times sexualization commission have refuted this care so say that people if you thought she worked as a bus the particular polling station is to give them the opportunity to vote. currently ranking place or he's paid course of elation that four thousand population is took place also you know he's going off well he says that vote should be valid based on claims of elect. all the principal complaints here is that and concerns is the promise of better way of putin really did so wel

four percent of the vote still to be confirmed these results still from the results from the election commission will be. throughout the night we'll have more of an idea later on this morning in about six hours or so but then of course it's ten days to fifteen days for them to be properly ratified properly but this gives you a very good idea of where it's going to go i think tonight and go to the election h.q. of liberal democrat candidate but even if you're not skinny artie's correspondent. is there. you told us earlier on that it wasn't a happy camp what is the general feeling among soldiers austrian as follows tonight . well i would say that i wouldn't think that there is extremely depressed it's more of our you know this is not the first time that they're being doing it this is the fifth time badger in austin has run for the presidential for a pro for president and didn't win so these people it's more of a i would say one of the mill occasions yet another long elections nice and you know they're ready to do it of course as long as it takes but they're standing by their man and that is was wh

the central election commission is saying that they received reports of over eighty boy elations taking place of voting day which will be investigated one of them occurring in the north caucuses the russian republic of dagestan where there seems to be a video has been uploaded alleging ballot stuffing taking place since that has been received the central issue commission so they all know all the votes at that local polling station it won't count to the end result. what's the reaction been to all this from the opposition. or the opposition as such show a different side to this story they haven't been has satisfied indeed they allege this ballot stuffing did take place around russia and we saw this as a system of carousel voting whereby people symbol of mass into it divisional polling stations to disrupt activities there for each presidential candidate they had observers which could lead to the situation around the country so that. the russian billionaire currently sees or comes in this presidential election he had about twenty cows and his disposal they seem to report about four thousand

ok country not graduate not live from the central election commission headquarters we of course will be joining us throughout the night for the results as and when they come in there in central moscow we're assessing the plans and prospects for each of the candidates are it seems to me treatment with genco is gauging the mood and team putin's headquarters in central moscow are now joins us live. and there's really good to me to be the. good the front burner of course of the kid the front runners campaign a squad i should say must be pretty confident of the victory we just heard from you catarina there and the first exit polls are putting through tonight fifty eight point three percent but it's premature to celebrate before of course the official results are in what's the team getting up to right now is they're waiting for these results well it has been pretty agitated over the past five to ten minutes we've had a live transmission of mr truro the head of the election committee right now which puts the blessing of bush in that sixty one point seven percent to fourteen percent of the v

i get the impression of a lie from the central election commission headquarters looks like very few people there behind you although we do know the counting does continue in it so monday those final word results will be ratified in about ten to fifteen days' time some of let him drive also already congratulated him on his victory now ahead of him selection h.q. shall we dimitri go blank as a burning station for us tonight really. close in as a massive lead it appears i support is happy with the results so far well it seems well you've just been talking to scott who is the press secretary for and he said these results around standing around sixty five percent probably putin were beyond their expectations they expected and when the first round but not these kind of big results they are calling on a man beyond competition a political figure number one in russia of course but as soon as they. left the building out and met with his supporters with his team both congratulating each other will triumphant even though the votes have not been counted one hundred percent of them they've basically cal

transitional council, our presiding body, recently passed the election law and appointed the election commission that could carry on the job for the election. soon we will be electing the national assembly, the first democratically elected body in over 40 years. my government will do its part to ensure that these elections are a success because we understand that these elections are the first stage of libya's accelerated path to genuine democracy. there is surprising parallelism between the libyan and american experience in fighting for democracy. take for example the formation of the continental congress as a transitional government body of the united states during and after the american revolution. it led thepath towards an elect government and to a convention which drafted the american constitution in much the seam t government has represented the will also guideduring and after the upcoming election of the national assembly in june. the national assembly will oversee the drafting of a constitution which will serve as a bedrock for our dwd and ensure peaceful transitions between elected gover

the pedal election commission than twoust repay more receivedollars that he during the 2008 presidential campaign. the sec says that the campaign received $13 million in matching funds from the government. was $2 million more than he entitled to. edwards must repay the money within 30 days. barbara mikulski made history today. longest serving ofen in the history congress. on thel be honored floor on wednesday. she has served more than 35 in the house of representatives as well as the senate. it was a sight to behold at the white house today. the first family mart st. the south lawn. the fountain bubbled green water. the first time the fountain was turned green for st. patrick's in 2009 at the request of michelle obama. she was inspired by what folks chicago do. is what they do in chicago. they turn the river green. tradition dates back more than 50 years. workers were out early this adding the green dye to the river. every year, thousands of people lined this waterfront to enjoy same patrick's day festivities and that includes parade. used to live in chicago. remember bundling up quite a

tuesday, and then, i will be testifying at the state assembly in sacramento on may 1 before the elections commission. the assembly member has proposed an amendment that would allow us to move forward with all the electronic filing, which has been a priority of ours for a long time, so this is very good news. the city's legislative affairs committee has voted to approve the legislation. actually, they wanted to sponsor it. they normally only suppose it or not, so this takes it one step further. so it has been endorsed by the city itself, and i've found that this afternoon that staff is recommending that another indorse it at their april 5 meeting, so that is good news for us, and i believe it has got fairly smooth sailing ahead. this will be a good chance for san francisco once again to sort of take the lead in doing something new with electronic filing, which, for a lot of reasons, say does not only staff resources but all kinds of paper and other things. >> so is this legislation to allow san francisco to do it or others? executive director: i am sorry. that is completely wrong. it allows -- it wou

lots of activity at the jackson county election commission.he polling precincts are continuing to drop off their materials here. as you just mentioned, wolf, fresh numbers. no one else is getting these numbers. let me reveal them to you. out of five precincts, 31 pre-sixty in jackson county, these are the totals, mitt romney, 508 votes, rick santorum, 399 votes, newt gingrich, 360 votes, wolf, and ron paul, 58 votes. i'll read those back to you. mitt romney, 508, that's at 37.85%. rick santorum, 399, at 29.73%, newt gingrich has 360 votes, at 26.83% and again, ron paul, 58 votes at 4.32. we're continuing to talk with our contact, danny glascot. and we'll bring you more numbers. >> that's five precincts out of 30, is that right? >> reporter: correct, 5 out of 31. he's still loading them in one by one. a fairly quick process, wolf. snow thanks, shannon. we'll get back to you and dana as well. explain potentially what this means for romney, santorum and gingrich. tiny numbers. romney with a healthy lead. not a huge number but as shannon says, per

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the monitor will be able to compare the certificate he or she has with what the election commission says occurred. if there's a discrepancy, then you're going to hear a lot. so i think the question really for the opposition is, yes, they're going to keep that issue going but it's really what do they do next politically. >> brown: so that is the question. what does happen? what kind of presence do they seem themselves being now and on what issues? is any of that clear yet. >> warner: what they say is they want a really fundamental rewriting of the political rules of the road. and they want something that is really outside what the constitution provides which is for putin to invite these liberal activist leaders into a dialogue, redraw the political rules to make it even easier to form political parties. putin and medvedev have already announced some changes in that regard. and then once that is done, actually hold new parliamentary elections not in december 2016 when they're scheduled but maybe in a year or two. >> brown: that goes to the big question for the opposition- everyone else. wh

this and that is a creation of the very, very dysfunctional and completely gridlock election commission. there are a couple players that have gotten us to this point. the fcc has played a big role and the supreme court despite its promises that we have disclosure and that will prevent corporations to be held accountable. i don't think we're going to have that much information in this coming election about the true sources of money and before doing so, i'll mention that there's a counter veiling interest here, public interest, government interest that i'm confident alan will talk more about. it's true that over the decades and the context of the disclosure cases that if a particular donor to a particular cause would suffer threats, harassment, or reprisals of a result of them being disclosed, they should be exempt. but this is an ex sem shun and we're talking about victims of extreme violence and discrimination in threats and reprisals at the hands of government themselves. so a brief mention of some of the ways that the new super pac act that the sunlight foundation has just announced l

majority vote but claims there were multiple violations during the poll the country's central election commission has now officially confirmed putin as president elect our correspondent peter all of us in central moscow with the latest . a league of voters already group of public figures in russia bloggers as well who are independent electoral group observers prime minister vladimir putin who said well ok that's your opinion i'm not too fussed by what you have to say really he did say that the he knew that there was always going to be criticism from the league of voters they'd already called them election before it actually taken place what they were basing these claims on say that they wouldn't recognize the elections is the four thousand five hundred reported problems they were reported to then only one hundred of those related to fraudulent and added on to candidates told they highlighted one hundred and sixty eight votes were added to me of putin's total from here in moscow now one hundred sixty eight when you think about it millions of voters went to the polls something of a drop in the ocea

you very much and just a reminder if you're sitting there going to show up for the central election commission have forth from the ground zero of the russian election from from from the central command point where it's all happening so you know and as we just heard the the situation there was pretty much stable sixty something for putin seventeen plus something for for the runner up it was who was the communist leader at the moment. so we have started talking about the possible protests about the possible accusations after the elections and jim said that he would like to see what happens or not if if the people will be complaining about the the legitimacy of the election that this is this is already started we heard that. has already stated there that he has reports of thousands of irregularities do you think that something will happen close to what we saw after they leave this and move actions you know that. this is the game is not an idiot because you know we know. the responsibility of all participants of this presidential all is quite obvious. for candidates i believe they should recognize

we need to get rid of the federal -- federal elections commission. it is a joke. it does not support the law. i hope he makes it one of his top items. tavis: this argument wears me out that the president was convinced by his aides. he was a brilliant guy, but now he is not brilliant enough to be talked out of a dumb decision by aides who do not -- who suggested. i do not buy that, respectfully. house statesmanlike. you said earlier in this conversation that by the end of his second term, he will be a great president. i want to believe that and not just another garden variety politician, but have statesmanlike would he have been if he said, "i am not playing this game"? the americans who are so sick of the politics would have rallied to his defense and said, "the president is right about this. we have to get this money out of politics." the guy raised and three- quarters of a billion dollars. how much money do you need? you are leading mitt romney and rick santorum and newt gingrich by double digits in most of these states begin i am just trying to find out about a

cameras were installed in the more than 90,000 polling places as election organizers r of the election commissionslocal level. so it was not a good report card. >> reporter: election observers say they did witness irregularities at this vote but probably fewer of them. perhaps that's because vladimir putin was so far ahead in opinion polls he didn't need to cheat. he remains a popular figure in much of russia and was seen as the candidate of stability. the only suspense here has been over the size of the victory margin. in the end, the putin vote was put at just upwards of 63%, large enough for an absolute majority but not so large that he can be accused of massive vote rigging. it's about 10 points down on its last time he ran. still the arguments don't matter. vladimir putin is the one and future president of russia. >> jeff: mark phillips in moskow, mark, thank you. ahead here it is an historic house so what happened when the kilauea volcano came to call? you should know that just one dose of children's advil gives up to eight hours of fever relief. allowing your little one to get back to build