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Well, one of my university buddies happened to be an observer in the 2012 presidential elections (he went as the observer from the Communist Party, although he
by Joker_vD 6y ago
Well, one of my university buddies happened to be an observer in the 2012 presidential elections (he went as the observer from the Communist Party, although he himself was supporter for Prokhorov, ironically enough). Well, he claimed he did his duties with utter dilligence, never leaving the voting station, and that he saw a) absolutely zero fraud attempts; b) 70% of valid bulletins had votes for Putin. And when he later checked in the GAS "Vybory" whether the protocol he signed was meddled with in the system, no, it was there with the counted numbers just as it was signed.
He was rather upset with Prokhorov's loss but admitted that that guy wasn't actually popular.
- lostmsu 6y agoGood anecdata. I observed a few different elections between 2008 and 2012, and the only clean one showed result vastly different from nearby regions. I myself was kicked out by police force under a made-up reason (obstructing work of commission by making them nervous - without even speaking to them) during parliament elections in 2011. When this kind of stuff did not happen, you could see a different result from nearby stations. Friends of mine reported discrepancies between observed counts of voters and reported results, indicating fake bulletins. And you can find quite a few videos on YouTube with busses/minibuses driving people around to vote multiple times.