Posted on 03/15/2024 8:19:34 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
Russia's three-day presidential election began on Friday, and some Western analysts have said the Kremlin is concerned about low voter turnout. Although Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to win by a large margin in what is considered by many to be a rigged election, his office is reportedly concerned that a smaller-than-expected turnout could lend credence to the argument that the contest is illegitimate.
The Moscow Times on Thursday detailed how Russia is attempting to lure citizens to the polling stations with prizes like bags of sugar and concert tickets. In Omsk, a city in Siberia, some young voters will be offered free rides on the local Ferris wheel.
Ukraine's military intelligence agency (GUR) told The Kyiv Independent that its officials hacked into one of Russia's online voting systems and disrupted the election process on Friday. A spokesperson with the agency added: "There are no elections or democracy there anyway."
Disruptions were also reported at a number of physical polling locations after some residents appeared to protest Russia's election. Some ballots were destroyed after demonstrators poured dark-colored dye into ballot boxes in several cities, including at locations in Moscow and Crimea. Another Russian media outlet reported that a woman was detained in Saint Petersburg for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a polling site....
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and we are supposed to be all lathered up about Russian Elections.
Hey - a lot of dumb Ukrainian cannon fodder died in Belgorod to make a big deal about the Russian elections.
Into the guns, dear Ukie friends!
Into the guns once more!
For Little Vloddy and his new dacha in Monaco!!
What Ukraine election doink?
The hubris of Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, Grant Shapps and others bathed in Ukrainian blood.
State sponsored immigration, food stamps, housing, debit cards, cell phones, Healthcare, and transportation, for Democrat votes in America if you vote for Biden.
Posts from Turdeaux’s leading snow Nazi. You must really hate yourself in the still hours of early morning when it is dark and quiet and you are alone with yourself.
Macron is losing it.
At least our voters get Newports and 40s. Better than the Russian crap.
Firewood. Hmmm.
“I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the Party is beneath the dignity of any man. And the Party was right: one man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic; five million people desperate for fuel will destroy a city. “ —from Dr Zhivago
What about a man desperate for votes! Maybe Biden should offer the same.
Great quote there from Doctor Zhivago.
No chicken in every pot? There must be a shortage of eggs…
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