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Publicly Available Russian Election Results Hint At Fraud

Posted by timothy on from the or-could-just-be-a-coincidence dept.

gotfork writes "As some Russians protest the results of the recent election, several commentators (Russian), have started looking at the results which are posted to the election commission web site and there's very strong evidence of fraud. Voter turnout correlates strongly with percent voting for the ruling party, United Russia, and there are a lot of polling stations with nearly 100% turnout and 100% voting for United Russia in some unusual places. The raw data is posted so you can do your own analysis."

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  1. Re:s/Russia/America/g by AdamJS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, yes. But 100% turnout from places that range from Apathetic to outright hatred of his Regime, and a majority vote for him? That's an entirely different level of bullshit than what Scott Walker could accomplish.

  2. 2011 in a nutshell: by korgitser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Russians are on the street protesting.
    Americans are on the street protesting.
    Europeans are on the street protesting.
    The middle east is on the street protesting.
    Africa is on the street protesting.
    Dose anyone know a place where people are actually happy with their government?

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    1. Re:2011 in a nutshell: by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Can you name a period of time where people have been happy with their government? In a democracy, politics is about compromise, which means that nobody really gets what they want, and in non-democratic systems of government there is a large group of people who never get what they want. It is fairly rare for people to be satisfied with their government.

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  3. Re:s/Russia/America/g by jacks0n · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1. false equivalency. The fraud involved there is quantitatively and qualitatively worse.
    2. irrelevant. Illegal and immoral behavior in one country does not make it OK in another.

  4. Re:Forced Voting? by rednip · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Political corruption is as old as politics itself, acting like it's a Chicago invention is just another 'conservative' trying to make a back handed comment about President Obama's legitimacy,

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  5. And still some people want even bigger government by Quila · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The bigger the government, the more this will happen.

    Imagine a government that didn't have the power to create entire new industries, the power to pick winners and losers in the commercial sector, through regulation or legislation. The corporations that make money through this now wouldn't have anybody to lobby, they wouldn't have any influence.