Russian Pres Election 2012

[Insula Dei]

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?

Casting a vote you know won't have any real tangible effects at all? Isn't that the essence of Swiss federal elections?

[Insula Dei]

Amazing Zyuganov (funny way of writing the name, you Anglos have) may well be the only major Russian politician from the 1990s to still be relevant in some way.