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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. Re:"rigged Elections" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Except that in ten years, Bush will be gone and Putin will most likely still be "president". Some people are actually suffering - you just thought you were.

  2. So the worst case scenario for Russia is that ... by intnsred · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... their elections are about as fair and honest as the last two US presidential elections.

    Given the obvious propaganda value of the US bashing Russian elections, I think we in the US ought to shut our mouths until we get our own act cleaned up. By any polling measure, Putin enjoys 60-70% approval by Russians; here in the US Bush is not even at a 30% approval rating while publicly admitting to torture and with a majority of Americans thinking he has committed impeachable offenses.

  3. Re:"rigged Elections" by dcollins · · Score: 1, Troll

    On the contrary:

    - A study sponsored by a consortium of media companies, done by the University of Chicago, found that under any of 4 methodologies, a full-state recount in Florida would have made Gore the winner in 2000.
    Summary at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000_Florida_results
    NORC Florida Ballots Project: http://www2.norc.org/fl/

    - Gore offered to have a full-state recount, but this was rejected by Bush and Republicans:
    Article from South Florida Sun-Sentinal: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-7243729_ITM

    --
    We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
  4. Re:"rigged Elections" by SL+Baur · · Score: 0, Troll

    the media on election night, when the state of Florida was actually called for Gore before the polls closed in Western Florida, causing many people to literally walk away from the election lines. That sort of thing really sucks. Former President Carter actually conceded his losing election before polls had closed in California.

    That sort of thing sure gives people a lot of incentive to get out there and vote ...

    You can usually tell what politicians are up to by what they accuse others of doing. For Republicans, it's cheating on their wives or taking drugs. For Democrats, it's committing vote fraud. For Republicans, it's cheating on their wives, playing footsie in the little boys room or taking drugs.

    There. Fixed that for you.