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More than 95% Crimeans voted for reunification with Russia, says official (UPDATE)
Itar-Tass ^ | 03/17/2014 | Itar-Tass

Posted on 03/16/2014 2:32:09 PM PDT by goldstategop

SIMFEROPOL, March 17, 0:52 /ITAR-TASS/. Upon the processing of 50% ballots cast Sunday in a referendum on Crimea’s future, a total of 95.5% voters who had come to the polling stations said ‘yes’ to the reunification of their region with Russia, Mikhail Malyshev, a person in charge of the referendum commission at the Crimean legislature said.

Another 3.5% voters said ‘yes’ to Crimea’s continued stay within Ukraine. Invalidated ballots made up 1% of the total. Malyshev said that the data did not feature the results of voting in Sevastopol.

The ballots in Sunday’s referendum contained two questions: 1) Are you in favor of Crimea's reunification with Russia in the status of a constituent territory of the Russian Federation and 2) Are you in favor of restoring the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Crimea and its status of an integral part of Ukraine.

As many as 1,534,815 people of Crimea and 309,774 people in the city of Sevastopol had the right to vote in the referendum.

As many as 27 territorial election committees and 1,239 polling stations, including 192 polling stations in the city of Sevastopol were set up for the event.

The expenditures for the referendum were covered from the autonomy’s budget. Referendum’s organizational costs stood at 1.7 million U.S. dollars.

(Excerpt) Read more at en.itar-tass.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: crimea; crimeanreferendum; itartass; russia; sevastopol; ukraine; update
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To: goldstategop
These are the same kind of numbers Saddam used to get when Iraq had "elections."
61 posted on 03/16/2014 4:30:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
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To: TigersEye

And exactly what is it I said that got you so defensive about your boy Putin?


62 posted on 03/16/2014 4:30:41 PM PDT by Red White and Blue patriot (USA all the way. Love it or Leave it. Better dead than Red. Putin = Hitler 2014)
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To: goldstategop

Russia hasn’t changed in 1,000 years, who’s ignorant idea is it that it’ll behave differently after the fall of the Soviet Union?


63 posted on 03/16/2014 4:33:22 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: Red White and Blue patriot

You’re a disruptor troll and a loon. That is the only thing you outed on your pansy thread.


64 posted on 03/16/2014 4:34:59 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Red White and Blue patriot

What I have a problem with is having it both ways. Do we recognize every group that overthrows their government? Say, like Cuba?

We get pissed when the courts over rule our votes. The people of Crimea have voted. Who the hell are we to say their votes don’t count? To me this is no different from West Virginia seceding from Virginia.


65 posted on 03/16/2014 4:40:50 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: TigersEye

I think you’re right. I don’t have an opinion on this subject. I don’t trust any of the information I’m getting, and there seems to be a few people who come on the discussion threads with an ax to grind.


66 posted on 03/16/2014 4:47:14 PM PDT by virgil
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To: VerySadAmerican

How many troops did Kentucky send in order to make it happen?


67 posted on 03/16/2014 4:47:33 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: virgil

I don’t trust any of the info either. I have no idea what the real story there is.


68 posted on 03/16/2014 4:50:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: TigersEye

You’re an apologist for a Russian tyrant who is intent on reclaiming a lost empire that this country defeated. You and the rest of the Putin crotch sniffers can take the first plane to Moscow for all I care.


69 posted on 03/16/2014 4:51:28 PM PDT by Red White and Blue patriot (USA all the way. Love it or Leave it. Better dead than Red. Putin = Hitler 2014)
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To: Red White and Blue patriot

I consider the EU in many ways to be more “commie” than Russia. Are you a socialist?


70 posted on 03/16/2014 4:52:41 PM PDT by impimp
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To: Red White and Blue patriot

Really? Where did I post anything in defense of Russia? Post a link to it or admit that you’re a lying POS because that’s exactly what you are, punk. LOL


71 posted on 03/16/2014 4:54:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: impimp

That’s because you are a Putin fanboy.


72 posted on 03/16/2014 5:16:34 PM PDT by Red White and Blue patriot (USA all the way. Love it or Leave it. Better dead than Red. Putin = Hitler 2014)
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To: SkyDancer

Just because we had plenty of voter fraud in the 2012 election (and nothing was done about it) does not mean that the same took place in the Crimea.


73 posted on 03/16/2014 5:16:52 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 1rudeboy

lol....


74 posted on 03/16/2014 5:23:20 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: 353FMG

In a referendum widely denounced as rigged, and closely watched by Russian soldiers and “self-defense” forces, residents of the Crimea voted overwhelmingly to join the Russian Federation on Sunday, with exit polls putting the result at 93%, according to the BBC. The U.S. sponsored a UN Security Council Resolution declaring the vote invalid, but Russia vetoed it on Saturday, exercising its power as one of five permanent council members


75 posted on 03/16/2014 5:23:28 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice.)
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To: impimp
"I stand with Russia and Crimea and Putin. I stand against the EU, Kerry, and Ted Cruz.... Who do you choose?"

I stand against Putin on Crimea and against EU/Kerry on perversion. So, I am against both.

76 posted on 03/16/2014 5:33:52 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
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To: Irish Rose

It probably wouldn’t go 95.5% for unification but unification would still win running away. Crimea was “given” to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 after Josef Stalin’s death (why, I’m not sure) and came with Ukraine when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. But before that, if I remember right, it was part of the Russian RSFSR and part of the Russian Empire long before 1917, settled by Russians when the Tatars were driven out.

The result is not entirely illegitimate, Crimea should have probably been allowed to seek unification with Russia. Now the way that Putin went about it? Very reminiscent of a couple of maneuvers pulled in 1938 by a dude with a toothbrush mustache and bad hair. The ends don’t justify the means even if the ends are, in the long run, probably the right ones.

}:-)4


77 posted on 03/16/2014 6:15:35 PM PDT by Moose4 (Sufficiently feisty.)
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To: Moose4
Crimea was “given” to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 after Josef Stalin’s death (why, I’m not sure)

Khrushchev was Stalin's man in the Ukraine...He needed to win over the Ukrainians to consolidate his power...so he "gifted" Ukraine with Crimea, although in the grand scheme of things, it meant little at the time.

78 posted on 03/16/2014 6:16:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: goldstategop

So Putin is better at this than Maduro, but doesn’t have it down to a science yet like Kim Jong-Eun.


79 posted on 03/16/2014 6:33:54 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: goldstategop

” Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin


80 posted on 03/16/2014 6:35:58 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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