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The regional branch of the Agrarian Party of Russia was banned from participation in the upcoming October elections in Primorye’s Duma due to inappropriately filed signatures of the voters, a press statement from the regional election committee reported Monday.

According to the law, the parties may either pay an election participation fee of 2 million rubles ($75,000) or submit support signatures of at least 15,931 voters. Primorye’s branch of Agrarian Party of Russia became the only party of 12 wishing to participate in the elections to choose the second way of collecting farmers’ signatures.

The party leadership submitted 17,055 voter signatures to the election committee of which the commission members determined 1,775 as counterfeit or invalid. 1,775 signatures equaled 11 percent while the limit for unacceptable signatures could not exceed 10 percent according to the law.

Currently ten political parties have successfully passed the registration procedure. Among them are United Russia, Russia’s Communist Party, Russia’s Patriots, Liberal Democratic Party, Yabloko, Russian Pensioners’ Party and Freedom and People’s Rule party (Svoboda i Narodovlastie) headed by Viktor Cherepkov.