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Offline Askold

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Russian Voting Fraud
« on: September 19, 2016, 09:30:12 am »
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37403673

Russian government promised a fair election and as proof they placed webcameras at voting stations. Apparently they forgot to tell their staff because the officials have been caught committing voting fraud on camera.

Sadly there may not be any consequences because the authorities are the ones cheating and the people fighting for transparency don't really have any power other than trying to spread the news of these incidents in Russian social media and perhaps getting the story to global news.
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Re: Russian Voting Fraud
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2016, 09:38:36 am »
Oh, come on, Russia!  Everyone fucking knows your democracy is a sham to begin with, why are you even trying to say otherwise?  That's like Kim Jong-Un eating a cheeseburger and using it as a sign that there's no famine in North Korea.  Literally nobody buys it for a second.  Putin, just be out with it, already: you're the reincarnation of Stalin without the commanding mustache.
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Re: Russian Voting Fraud
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2016, 03:26:13 pm »
Oh wooooow.  How did they think this was gonna end?

Ironbite-Putin just doesn't care anymore.
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Re: Russian Voting Fraud
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2016, 04:27:46 pm »
So I take it Russia doesn't have term limits?
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Re: Russian Voting Fraud
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2016, 05:25:33 pm »
I think they had one for the president but Putin got rid of it.
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Re: Russian Voting Fraud
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2016, 06:18:02 pm »
So the Russian President can just outright do that?
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Re: Russian Voting Fraud
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2016, 06:52:57 pm »
It seems I remembered wrong. The Russian constitution allows unlimited terms but only two consecutive ones. I thought Putin and Medvedev had changed the rules back when Putin had to step down and become the prime minister.
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Re: Russian Voting Fraud
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2016, 08:39:16 pm »
Quote from: SCarpelan on September 19, 2016, 06:52:57 pm
It seems I remembered wrong. The Russian constitution allows unlimited terms but only two consecutive ones. I thought Putin and Medvedev had changed the rules back when Putin had to step down and become the prime minister.

Yeah, I remember that. Putin couldn't serve more than two terms consecutively as President and so "settled" for being Prime Minister for a term. As soon as the next Presidential election rolled around... guess who's back as President!

There was also a joke from back then:

Medvedev is about to give a speech, when an aide notices a loose string on his jacket.

"Mr. President, let me get that string for you," the aide says, and reaches for it.

Putin puts his hand on the aide's arm before he can get the string, however, and says, "Leave it there; we might need it later."
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