You know, if you were undecided that day, I doubt you’d vote for the ones who shot a howitzer at you that day.
And why would they need to force people to vote?
And the presence of troops in the voting areas would allay the fears of people voting they would be voting unprotected in case of Ukrainian troops attacking them, or attempting to arrest them, especially so if any voting areas were close(r) to the battle lines.
Forgot...
So people thinking there was no fathomable reason or need for soldiers to be present must be delusional.
Exactly.