elections reviews and mentions

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  1 project | /r/pinkfloyd | 6 Feb 2023

  *Had the votes been counted fairly, however, the tally would have been quite different. Golos, an election monitoring group, reported thousands of violations at polling stations. Videos of ballot-stuffing circulated widely on social media. There were suspicious patterns in the data, too. When Dmitry Kobak and Sergey Shpilkin, two researchers, analysed the results, they found that an unusually high number of turnout and vote-share results were multiples of five (eg, 50%, 55%, 60%), a tell-tale sign of manipulation. According to Messrs Kobak and Shpilkin, there were at least 1,310 polling stations (out of 96,325) with results that were suspiciously tidy, with rounder numbers than you would expect to see by chance. Although it is difficult to pin down precisely how many votes were affected, the researchers estimate that such fraudulent results may have boosted United Russia’s vote share by nearly 20 percentage points. Other, less obvious forms of cheating may have taken place too. '*

• Shoigu calls UK Defence Secretary for the first time and tells him about “dirty bomb”
  1 project | /r/UkrainianConflict | 23 Oct 2022

  About the first point - if you ever meet a person like this and know you can safely argue with them without getting police sent after you, show them this. If Russia cannot have non-falsified presidential elections than how can it organize referendum with conflict of interests. They'll probably ignore it or get angry but it's worth a try.

• Why does putin still live?
  1 project | /r/ukraine | 22 Feb 2022

  No, my contention is the polls are fraudulent in the first place, in exactly the same way Lukashenko "won" his election. The results are whatever Putin wants them to be. https://github.com/dkobak/elections Shpilkin's analysis has been widely reported in news. I guess you already know this but are choosing to try to defend Putin for some mysterious reason...

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