Monday, December 12, 2011

146% of Muscovites are for Free Elections!

That was the text of a protest sign at the rally in Moscow on Saturday. That seemed like a rather odd number to me, but I figured it was a number that was chosen at random.

But it was not. Stu Savory's blog had this picture of Russian election returns from the Rostov Oblast:


Add them all up and you have the vote totals of 146% of ballots cast.

Mayor Daley and Ken Blackwell would have been proud.

(Yes, I know, Blackwell's fraud went the other way, by reducing the 2004 vote total in Ohio by over a quarter of a million, but the point stands.)
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1 comment:

  1. BadTux12/12/2011 7:13 PM

    Heh, yeah, I had that screenshot on my own blog back on the 5th. Who woulda thunk that Chicago economists re-designing Russia's economy for the oligarchs would have led to Chicago politics being the rule? :).

    I especially like the expression on the news reader's face. She's, like, "And the results are... wha? That doesn't add up! WTF do I say now, that won't get me fired or killed or both?!" It's an expression of surprise, dismay, shock, and fear if I've ever seen one...

    - Badtux the "The dead have a right to vote too, y'know?" Penguin

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