CCTV captures the moment 'an election official stuffs a pile of voting papers in to a ballot box' in Russia as Putin's p

[Bryan R.]

7 minutes ago, ctebah said:

Still doesn't change the fact that Putin is very popular in Russia.  After the way Ukrainian government acted, I'm surprised he didn't take a bigger chunk of Ukraine away.  There's more Nazis in Eukraine now than there ever was. 

 

Why not?  If the majority of the population of Texas were Mexican, and they voted to separate from the US and join Mexico, what's wrong with that?  

You can think what you want, obviously, but the world sees past the facade. The takeover was an aggressive move clouded by typical Russian deflection ie. "ethnic Russians ethnic Russians ethnic Russians".

 

I'm not talking about Crimea anymore in this thread.

[ctebah]

10 minutes ago, Bryan R. said:

You can think what you want, obviously, but the world sees past the facade. The takeover was an aggressive move clouded by typical Russian deflection ie. "ethnic Russians ethnic Russians ethnic Russians".

 

I'm not talking about Crimea anymore in this thread.

Yes, there is a lot of ethnic Russians in countries surrounding Russia....

 

A better question would be, what was the US doing in Ukraine and investing in overthrowing another government?

 

The world certainly sees past the facade.  Too bad many Americans don't.  

[wakjak]

51 minutes ago, Bryan R. said:

As if said vote, held within Russia, justifies anything. I guess we could expect Mexico to vote to take back Texas and beyond and it'd be fine and dandy.

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95.7% of Crimeans in referendum voted to join Russia - preliminary results

Over 95 percent of voters in the Crimean referendum have answered ‘yes’ to the autonomous republic joining Russia and less than 4 percent of the vote participants want the region to remain part of Ukraine, according to preliminary results.

 

59 minutes ago, Bryan R. said:

He "took back Crimea" to reunite the "ethnic Russians" in the region. Hitler said the same thing and Russia suffered much by his hand (Stalin didn't help his population much either). Irony?

https://www.rt.com/news/crimea-vote-join-russia-210/

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26606097

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA1Q1E820140317

 

You are wrong. They were given the choice and the pretty damn near had a 100% vote to join Russia, and you can find many videos of the Crimean people celebrating and having a good time while doing so.

[Bryan R.]

That was done AFTER Crimea was occupied. I'm sure that's as legit as this CCTV footage shows of this election. Now I'm really done with this, just stop talking about Crimea.

[exotoxic]

Daily mail considered a reliable source when it fits an agenda.

[techbeck]

2 minutes ago, exotoxic said:

Daily mail considered a reliable source when it fits an agenda.

Where there are search engines.  Many other sites reporting this.

[ctebah]

6 minutes ago, exotoxic said:

Daily mail considered a reliable source when it fits an agenda.

In this case it is.  Russian government already responded, launching an investigation and cancelling the votes from that particular voting station.  

 

Putin was going to win regardless, so this ballot stuffing is kinda pointless.  Russians absolutely love him.  

14 minutes ago, wakjak said:

 

https://www.rt.com/news/crimea-vote-join-russia-210/

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26606097

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA1Q1E820140317

 

You are wrong. They were given the choice and the pretty damn near had a 100% vote to join Russia, and you can find many videos of the Crimean people celebrating and having a good time while doing so.

Better stop talking about Crimea  

 

People may "google" some stuff up and deduce you're from Russia

[Nashy]

1 hour ago, Bryan R. said:

You can think what you want, obviously, but the world sees past the facade. The takeover was an aggressive move clouded by typical Russian deflection ie. "ethnic Russians ethnic Russians ethnic Russians".

 

I'm not talking about Crimea anymore in this thread.

Given the pain your country has caused the planet over with both military and just corruption, it's probably a good thing.

[Draggendrop Veteran]

I would suggest that we stay on topic....

 

Thanks.

[techbeck]

3 hours ago, Hum said:

I'm sure there will be some 'stuffing' going on this November in the USA.

Yea, hopefully it is of Hillary and Trump....

 

Anyway, not surprised by anything in politics these days.  Corruption is everywhere.

5 minutes ago, Draggendrop said:

I would suggest that we stay on topic....

 

Thanks.

[FunkyMike]

 

14 hours ago, Circaflex said:

That is fine and dandy, I am glad you brought that up, however, the bulk of this article is about an elections official who stuffed ballots during the elections in Russia and was caught doing-so on CCTV.

She should be investigated, trialled and then put in a gulag.

 

I wonder who she was voting for. 

[Circaflex]

13 hours ago, exotoxic said:

Daily mail considered a reliable source when it fits an agenda.

If people here will accept RT.com as a reliable source, there should be no problem with the daily mail. 

[xpablo]

16 hours ago, J. X. Maxwell said:

Nonetheless North Korea does elections better

Yeah, you vote for Dear Leader or you get executed. 

 

[FloatingFatMan]

19 minutes ago, xpablo said:

Yeah, you vote for Dear Leader or you get executed. 

 

A little difficult to vote for anyone else when there's only 1 name on the ballot sheet...

[techbeck]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-election-fraud-idUSKCN11Q1RI

 

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Phantom voters, smuggled ballots hint at foul play in Russian vote

 

Voters across Russia handed a sweeping victory to President Vladimir Putin's allies in a parliamentary election on Sunday. But in two regions Reuters reporters saw inflated turnout figures, ballot-stuffing and people voting more than once at three polling stations.

 

In the Bashkortostan region's capital Ufa, in the foothills of the Urals, Reuters reporters counted 799 voters casting ballots at polling station number 284. When officials tallied the vote later in the day, they said the turnout was 1,689.

 

At polling station 591 in the Mordovia regional capital of Saransk, about 650 km south-east of Moscow, reporters counted 1,172 voters but officials recorded a turnout of 1,756.

 

A Reuters reporter obtained a temporary registration to vote at that station, and cast a ballot for a party other than the pro-Putin United Russia. During the count, officials recorded that not a single vote had been cast for that party.

 

Election officials at the stations denied there were violations or count irregularities.

 

It is unlikely that any irregularities at these polling stations would have been on a scale that could have affected the result.

 

The incidents are only a narrow snapshot of what was happening across Russia's 11 time zones and thousands of polling stations on an election day that was a test of whether support for Putin and his allies had held up despite a recession and Western sanctions. Reuters was unable to assess independently if such practices were widespread.

 

Reuters sent reporters to a random sample of 11 polling stations across central and western Russia on polling day, including in and around Moscow.

 

At three of them, there were large discrepancies between the number of voters Reuters reporters counted, and the number that officials recorded. At four of the other eight, there were also some irregularities, including smaller discrepancies in the voter tallies and people saying they had been paid or pressured to vote.

 

More shenanigans

[xpablo]

2 hours ago, FloatingFatMan said:

A little difficult to vote for anyone else when there's only 1 name on the ballot sheet...

You are wrong on that, there are a few political parties in N.Korea

 

Actually the people don't get to vote directly for the leader they vote for the district candidate selected in a parliamentary election

there is a chosen candidate of a district and voters must approve or disprove of the candidate, if they disprove they must write in another candidates name.

 

All parties belong to the "Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland",  which selects the leader of N.Korea.

 

Of course  all political parties except the "Workers (Communist) Party" are just for show, for the outside world to think there are fair elections in the DPRK. 

 

Anyhow getting back to the thread,

 

Putin's team stuffing ballot boxes is probably minor in comparison to having opposition leaders and crtics assassinated.

 

 

 

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Now we do know exactly where the $4.4 mil had gone over the last few years before - to finance the fifth column's precisely these activities in yet another attempt to discredit the Russian elections.