Russian Pres Election 2012

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Prediction:

Putin "wins" with about 63.7% of the "fixed" vote.

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Ria Novosti has a nice map of the "turnout" and "election results":

http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20120304/171705949.html

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Chechenya already with 94% turnout a few hours before polls close !

Could it be that there are a lot of troops voting absentee there who are registered to vote elsewhere in the country, therefore pushing up the turnout numbers in Chechenya ?

Or is it just the usual vote fraud ?

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A reporter from derstandard.at (Austrian newspaper) had a pretty good job today:

During the Russian election today, every (?) voting precinct had a webcam monitoring the election process, to avoid fraud. There are about 100.000 or so precincts in Russia.

So, this reporter from the Austrian newspaper watched live videos from precincts on webvybory.ru the whole day and at some point he watched a precinct in the small town of Tarumovka in Dagestan, where election officials stuffed hundreds of filled-out voting sheets into the voting machines. He also made a screenshot:



You can clearly see that the guy on the left is entering at least 2 ballots into the election machine. And it looks like the guy behind him has about 10 sheets in his hand ...

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Exit Poll was just released:

60% Putin
18% Communist Guy

All others have less than 10%.

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Live stream:

http://stream.1tv.ru/dvr/ch1.shtml

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A few exit polls now say 58-60% Putin.

With about 20% counted, Putin has about 62%.

Probably mostly Sibiria yet, with the Western part of Russia being counted later.

Moscow and St. Petersburg will probably push Putin below 60%.

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Putin is at 99.73% in Chechnya? You know, they could have at least tried to make these results believable.

Silly. Kadyrov is the 99.73% of the Chechen electorate.

True.

If you don't want to wake up the next day in a barrel full of acid or with a bullet in the head, don't mess around with Kadyrov.