They learned to cheat from the
old Chicago styles.
no kidding.
It seems that when the Berlin Wall came down and the USSR was dissolved and Russia staggered down the path of open elections, they bought all the old chicago voting machines. The kind with the curtain\flip a switch to vote\pull handle to record the vote and open the curtain for the next guy.
After the vote count, Richard J Daley won the election by 160 thousand votes.