“Electoral Sultanate”: In Russian political parlance, this term refers to regions where the most gross frauds are carried out without any regard for plausibility or prudence, and which constitute an almost inexhaustible trove of votes for the Kremlin. Masu. Tatarstan, Kemerovo, Saratov, North Caucasus, Mordovia, Tuva: in all these regions, the turnout and the score attributed to the ruling party candidates, regardless of the type of poll, systematically exceeds 80% and 100% It even came close.
Reading the detailed results of the presidential election, which ended on Sunday, March 17th and declared victory to Vladimir Putin with 87.28% of the vote, it becomes clear that the entire country of Russia has been transformed into a huge “electoral sultanate”. It became clear. The conditions under which the vote was organized (dummy opposition, controlled media, repressive climate, part of the population forced to vote), the results of electronic voting, unanalyzable black boxes, polling stations. seems to have reached unprecedented levels without even mentioning the fraud in .
No region is immune to this observation, not even Moscow, where the authorities observed a certain degree of discretion. A good example was the Danilovsky district in the south of the capital. The region is known for its exorbitantly priced target market and its highly educated, affluent population. At the polling stations where independent observers managed to register, Putin's vote share hovered around 60%. At the four polling stations where there were no polling stations, the percentage reached 99%.
Sibekino, a town of 40,000 people in the Belgorod region, is further along. At one polling station in the region, which is subject to regular shelling by the Ukrainian military, turnout reached 100%, with 100% supporting Putin. Compared to this result, even Chechnya, where 98.99% support the president, becomes insignificant.
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Fraud was greatly facilitated in this presidential election because the number of independent observers was greatly reduced. Russia has a rich tradition in this field, and until recently tens of thousands of well-trained volunteers were registered as observers. Their presence during the voting and counting process made the fraudsters' job even more difficult. Currently, only political parties and a small number of institutions authorized to vote can certify observers. Access to surveillance cameras at polling stations was also restricted.
As a result, videos of ballot box stuffing and multiple voting, which were still numerous in the 2021 parliamentary vote, were rare this time around and were often captured almost by chance by willing observers with mobile phones. . This, among other examples, happened when a poll worker in Krasnodar came out of a polling station with several ballots in hand. The person who shot the incriminating video was arrested on the spot and later sentenced to 14 days in jail and a fine for “violating a state representative” and “displaying a prohibited symbol.”
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