Publicly Available Russian Election Results Hint At Fraud 304
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."
Re:s/Russia/America/g (Score:2, Interesting)
These are pretty different situations, i mean no one in the states would be ballsy enough to try to go "ahh fuck it, just put in we got all the votes from everyone".
In the US they have to at least try to be SLIGHTLY subtle.
Re:Russians Know What Russia Is (Score:2, Interesting)
The ad should be retitled "Russia Doesn't Even Bother to Pretend to Have a Legitimate Election." Why would they? It's Russia. Historically speaking, it'd be weird to the point of unsettling if it weren't rotten to the core.
Hell, it seems like every time things start looking up for the Russians, somebody comes in to actively undo everything positive, and crushes them further. I know some guys who defected to the US during the Cold War... they never seem to run out of horror stories to share about how much life sucked there, but what constantly amazes me was that they felt they got out of there before it REALLY went to hell...
Iceland! (Score:3, Interesting)
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?
Iceland - they nationalised the banks and told the IMF to fuck off.
They devalued their currency, and their economy is now growing.
The President and Prime Minister are very popular.
Re:Forced Voting? (Score:3, Interesting)
Not really much point in an offtopic response to such an obvious partisan hack, but...
Did you even read the story? He's talking about how when he was in 8th grade, he wasn't a good student precisely because he liked basketball more than anything else. He implies that ethics was, in fact, more important than basketball but because he wasn't a very good student he couldn't appreciate it at the time.
But whatever. Go on trashing him over stupid shit like this instead of his actual policies, because you know, it's *so* productive to bitch and moan about what our presidents used to do as students.
--Jeremy