[troutman]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Maybe the UN should send in some poll monitors, you know, the type they use in barely functional democracies in Africa.

Russia votes:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-r...-idUSKBN2441VC

Golos, a non-governmental organisation that monitors elections, said it had recorded numerous irregularities during the vote, including ballot stuffing and widespread cases of employers forcing staff to cast a ballot.

Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Election Commission, said on Friday the vote was “free, open, democratic to the maximum and fair.

“Its results are legitimate and indisputable.”

Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, said the emphatic nature of the result was a measure of how deeply Russians trusted Putin to run the country.

‘It looks like a gameshow’: Russia's pseudo-vote on Putin’s term limits

Get-out-the-vote effort includes prize giveaways while campaign avoids focus on president

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ns-term-limits