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Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections

Posted by Zonk on from the little-to-the-left dept.

gaika writes "A graph in the best traditions of Edward Tufte shows how the voting was rigged in Russian parliament elections. Initially some regions were showing higher than 100% attendance, but later on everything was corrected, or way too much corrected, as the correlation between winning party's vote and attendance now stands at 90%. I guess the people who have rigged the vote have never heard about Correlation Cofficient."

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  1. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Putin's 7% cap on political parties pretty much annihilated most of the opposition. Why did they need to add votes? Out of habit?

    1. Re:Why? by cptdondo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Heh. If you read the Russian, Chechnya (or however you spell it in western alphabet) has the highest turnout - 10,000% - and a perfect score - 100% - in voting for Putin.

      Lesse - last I heard, they were still fighting the Chechen rebels, nyet?

  2. You don't need brains to be a dictator by crath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess the people who have rigged the vote have never heard about Correlation Cofficient.

    You don't need brains to run a dictatorship, just a rampant willingness to fuck people over. Reminds me of some of our own leaders here in The West!

  3. Those who count the votes... by xs650 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." Josef Stalin

  4. Re:Where did the data come from? by Escogido · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most likely from the GAS "Vybory" (short for State Automatized System "Elections") that is used to calculate preliminary voting results.

    I worked for 9 years in the Central Election Commission of Russia, and during my time a lot of technical people had access to the database, and it's not really hard to grab a copy of the DB or a report. I quit that job some years ago, but somehow I doubt a lot of things changed.

    This is not a security hole; the data is entered into the system straight from the signed protocol as soon as a lower level election commission does, and protocols are being made public right after they are signed. It also has no official status, at the data is only used for preliminary figures; the official results have to be delivered in paper form.

    While we're at it, the site of the Central Election Commission is http://www.cikrf.ru/ and the present election results will be eventually posted at http://www.cikrf.ru/elect_duma/npa/index.jsp. This is in Russian however, so I don't know how useful that would be..