Still trotting out that lie? Even if true it would not apply to Kherson and Zaporizhzhya oblasts. And how can the results for the Zaporizhzhya oblast be accepted when half of the oblast, including the city of Zaporizhzhya itself, were excluded from the vote?
https://twitter.com/Sebasti15091137/status/1574861974218874883?t=kIRqzXnJVV6GcyeB1xdKGw&s=19
Screen grab from Russian TV showing the Zaporizhzhia referendum COUNT.
97.81% of 38,672 votes cast.
Only 605 no votes.
These numbers are real. Well, as real as 92% yesterday and 53% earlier were. Russia can’t even settle on the numbers.
What’s the population of Zaporizhzhia city?
710,052 (on 1 January 2022.)
That number is also real.
In other words, less than 6% of the population of Zaporizhzhia Oblast even got to vote.
A referendum that denies 94% of elegible participants a vote and declares a near 98% win is even less reliable than a TV advert saying 85% of 350 women voted some ludicrously overpriced tub of aqueous cream as a miracle beauty product.