Russian Pres Election 2012

[Pingvin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_presidential_election,_2012
I support Prokhorov, 'cause he is lesser evil. Until he announced, I suppported Yavlinsky.

[smoltchanov]

And the winner will be Putin (though i don't support him as well)

[Pingvin]

Yavlinsky's bid rejected.

[minionofmidas]

What is the legal excuse for that decision?

[smoltchanov]

What is the legal excuse for that decision?

"Bad" signatures. By some accounts - the problems were in the "lists" itself, which were not printed before signature gathering, but simply xeroxed form first printed copy. This led to very high percentage of disqualified signatures, and that, in turn, to Yavlinsky's disqualification...I can't explain very high  percentage (above 20%) of disqualified signatures otherwise.

[minionofmidas]

I can't explain very high  percentage (above 20%) of disqualified signatures otherwise.

"He collected 19% over what he needed, so we had to disqualify 20% even though it looks ridiculous. Heck, quite a few of them are genuinely invalid"?

[smoltchanov]

I can't explain very high  percentage (above 20%) of disqualified signatures otherwise.

"He collected 19% over what he needed, so we had to disqualify 20% even though it looks ridiculous. Heck, quite a few of them are genuinely invalid"?

Nobody knows for sure. And, probably, nobody will...

[greenforest32]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_presidential_election,_2012

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Didn't realize it was this soon.

[Franzl]

It'll no doubt make the Maine Republican caucus seem like a role model in democracy.

[Boris]

Prokhorov/Jay-Z '12

[tpfkaw]

It'll no doubt make the Maine Republican caucus seem like a role model in democracy.

Putin doesn't need to fix this one...

[Middle-aged Europe]

It'll no doubt make the Maine Republican caucus seem like a role model in democracy.

Putin doesn't need to fix this one...

But he'll do it anyway.

[tpfkaw]

It'll no doubt make the Maine Republican caucus seem like a role model in democracy.

Putin doesn't need to fix this one...

But he'll do it anyway.

Well yeah, Putin does seem to have a severe case of http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DickDastardlyStopsToCheat

[Tender Branson]

Prediction:

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

[LastVoter]

Take a sh**t on the ballot.

[Tender Branson]

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

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

[Pingvin]

I'm just back from voting

[Tender Branson]

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 ?

[Tender Branson]

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 ...

[Harry Hayfield]

Presidential Exit Poll
Source: Russia Today

Putin 61.80%
Comm 17.80%
LDP 8%
Ind 7.56%
Just Russia 3.6%

Turnout: 56%

[Tender Branson]

Exit Poll was just released:

60% Putin
18% Communist Guy

All others have less than 10%.

[Tender Branson]

Live stream:

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

[Tender Branson]

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%.

[You kip if you want to...]

In democratic Russia, government choose you.

[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?