Russian Pres Election 2012

[ZuWo]

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?

[ZuWo]

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?

You have a point here.

But when I cast a vote the effects of my vote are not the most important to me anyway - it's the knowledge that my vote will be counted just like the vote cast by my neighbour. At least I have some reason to assume that I as a citizen am taken seriously by the government this way.