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Russian elections

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Some Danish election monitors are also enjoying the elections today. Amongst some of the things they enjoyed, were police officers checking the ballot papers, election monitors from the opposition parties being placed out of the way, and busses taking persons from polling place to polling place to cast votes repeatedly.

And the United Russia party have allegedly also been instructing their election monitors to spike the coffee of the neutral election monitors with alcohol.
 
A bit of a setback for United Russia, with them 'only' pulling in 48% of the vote. Still, it's all relative when you consider that they got 64% in the last election.

Communists got 20% of the vote.
 
Ballots in the urn before the election has started:



Cameraman: There are ballots in the urn.
Woman: No there aren't

Also:

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Come on Arcade, I've been assured that it's impossible to cheat with paper ballots. The cameraman must be mistaken, and everyone knows that the camera lies. Probably just dust on the lens or something.
 
Undesired Walrus said:
A bit of a setback for United Russia, with them 'only' pulling in 48% of the vote. Still, it's all relative when you consider that they got 64% in the last election.

Communists got 20% of the vote.
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Worst rigged election ever. What are they thinking?
 
Cleon said:
Heh. That claims to be the results for the Chechen Republic. It sure looks like they love Putin in Chechnya. Totally believable. :D
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Yes, it's almost comical when you have such blatant voting fraud and then having Medvedev claiming that the voting was free, fair and democratic. I mean the other Caucasian (and most other) republics managed to fake at least slightly believable results.

Then again let's not forget that this scam goes deeper and is more advanced than just ballot stuffing and 'carousel voting'. There is only one real opposition party in the duma, the communist party, and it's practically toothless. Many people who voted for the communist didn't even like the party and especially dislike it's leader, they just vote for it because it's the 'recognized opposition'. The other parties more or less subtlety support the Kremlin whilst claiming to be 'opposition parties'.

The Kremlin recently tried to create a new political party, A Right Cause, in order to make a more pro-businesses 'libertarian-conservative' alternative for people to vote for in the election but one of the guys that they elected to run it didn't want to be a puppet so he pretty much spilled the beans and left the party.

I also read about a report of someone who sent in electoral results from a polling station to the electoral commission. Apparently the results that he sent in was 'revised' by the commission in order to increase the votes for UR by roughly 100% and decreasing the votes for the communists.
 
What I don't get is why. Russia's economy isn't doing too badly and as italy shows when the ruler has total control of the media personal missbehaviour isn't much of an issue.
 
Undesired Walrus said:
A bit of a setback for United Russia, with them 'only' pulling in 48% of the vote. Still, it's all relative when you consider that they got 64% in the last election.

Communists got 20% of the vote.
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I see russian black and white thinking pattern. 100% win or 100% loose. That's why so many fraud cases in this election and jailing opponents. Picture in this post explains my point of view:
 
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So what actually happened in this election? Was the fraud not quite up to the standards of previous years or was the drop in United Russia's support a sign that the election was free and fair?
 
Why isn't this in the Entertainment forum? Everyone knows the Russian elections are fiction. Whose turn is it to be president next time, Putin or Medvedev?
 
Bikewer said:
Putin. Don't forget, Dubya "looked into his eyes".....
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Heh. He also declared Ariel Sharon to be a "man of peace," and I think that was one of the few times when Israelis and Palestinians alike shared a good, hearty belly laugh.
 
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