Chernivtsi: To prevent fraud in the e-petitions on the website of the city Council be provided a reliable system of signature collection
About the details of any foreign interference in the operation of the service "E-petitions" city Council was told at the town Hall the Deputy head of the legal Department Nikolai Uskov, Department head of computer and technical support Manilich Valery, head of Department of addresses of citizens Nina Sable and head of information projects of the company Langate Sergey Kushnir. A press conference was convened after the discovery of the falsification of signatures on a petition, registered on January 20. For two weeks the activity of the citizens about its support was negligible, but within 4-5 February, the number of signatures exceeded the required for consideration level. "We analyzed the situation and came to the conclusion that milking signatures — no more than a dozen, – says Valery Manilich. The rest are rigged. Many signatures came from email addresses that differ from each other only by a letter or digit. It's surprising that the petition, which addressed only our city, signed, judging by IP addresses, residents of other countries – such as Brazil". According to Nina Sobol, the Department of citizens ' appeals received a letter with the statement that their names were used without their knowledge. The majority of signatures in support of their invalidity, the collection of signatures under the petitions continues. With this in mind, mayor Alex Kaspruk has sent letters to law enforcement agencies to investigate facts outside interference. Nikolai Uskov noted that the case falls under part 1 of article 361 of the criminal code – “Unauthorized interference with the work of electronic computing machines (computers), automated systems, computer networks or telecommunication networks, which led to the leakage, loss, forgery, blocking of information, distortion of information processing or violation the established order its routing,”. For such violation provided the penalties ranging from a fine to imprisonment up to three years. In order to make the process of collection of signatures under the petitions as accurate as possible, it is planned to use the BankID system, as a reliable method of verification of citizens through the data Bank. This was reported in the Chernivtsi city CouncilÏåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
