@Penguin
Why am I commenting? I read an article, and I passively pointed out that I agreed with some things in it.
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Putin has won in the only way that really matters: Once again, he is president of Russia.
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You can call him whatever you want, but it is obvious to everyone that he is "gaming" the constitution to get himself a third term. I frankly don't think he cares, and I pointed that out earlier.
Now there is a really interesting comment under the article:
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I heard that they caught poll workers in Dagestan on webcam stuffing ballot boxes, but that this district's results were invalidated immediately... I also heard that "carousel voting" - where people are bussed from district to district to vote multiple times - was wide-spread.
But here's the thing: With such massive amounts of people voting, the number of people you'd have to bus around in order to manipulate the final result by even one percent would be staggering. And critics of this election are claiming a discrepancy of more than 15%. Doing the numbers:
Population of Russia: 143 million
Number of people who voted (64%): 91.5 million
15% of voting total: 13.7 million
Let's say you arranged to bus a bunch of people around, each one voting 4 times in different districts (and Russia's districts are pretty vast outside of Moscow). You'd have to bus around 3,425,000 people. Assuming you could fit 50 people per bus, you'd need to mobilize 68,500 buses to make that work.
I'm just saying, that'd be a pretty impressive stunt to pull off...
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Mind you, Putin is ex-KGB, but I don't think he is that good.
And anyways, even if the results are inflated by a few %, he must have gotten more than 50%, AKA, enough to avoid a runoff