Russia's Medvedev says open to election law ideas | International | Reuters

Russia's Medvedev says open to election law ideas | International | Reuters: "MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev told leaders of three opposition parties on Saturday he was open to ideas on how to change election laws that they say favor the pro-Kremlin party.

The Nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), Fair Russia and the Communist Party walked out of parliament this week in a rare act of protest against disputed regional elections, which independent observers say were rigged.

Russia's ruling party, United Russia, chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, crushed opposition parties in the elections held across much of Russia, including Moscow.

The opposition parties want a rerun of the vote, an abolition of the early voting system, which the opposition says is prone to fraud, and the resignation of the central Election Commission's Chairman Vladimir Churov."