Russian Pres Election 2012

[GMantis]

I'm just back from voting

What is it like to cast a vote in an election where you don't know whether your ballot will be "corrected", dumped in the nearest river, compensated for by 10 Putin votes that come out of nowhere or be chosen as one of the few non-Putin ballots the electoral commission has to accept in order to render the result still somewhat believable?

Considering the kind of opposition facing Putin, there is not really much need to falsify the results.

[GMantis]

I'm just back from voting

What is it like to cast a vote in an election where you don't know whether your ballot will be "corrected", dumped in the nearest river, compensated for by 10 Putin votes that come out of nowhere or be chosen as one of the few non-Putin ballots the electoral commission has to accept in order to render the result still somewhat believable?

Considering the kind of opposition facing Putin, there is not really much need to falsify the results.

Isn't it still generally accepted that he does? Whether he needs to or not?

The results in Chechnya and Dagestan are of course falsified, but that might be the local warlords overpalying. As for the rest of the results, there are probably some problems with the election, but not in a very large scale. After all, the results are close to the polls before the election, including those made by opposition polling agencies.