The second part of the “secret” stuffing at the elections in St. Petersburg was published
It shows two women performing “tricks” with a ballot box to distribute the ballots they had previously cast.
“Observers of St. Petersburg” write that, most likely, the video shows polling station No. 5 of the Admiralteysky district at school No. 260.
My favorite story was of a European union leader who congratulated Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory a day or two before the election even started!
That was Charles Michel, president of the European council, congratulating Putin with his landslide victory on the morning when voting began. Not a fan of Michel, but that was pretty good.
Does it really matter? I’d be surprised if they even read the ballots. I imagine they just get shipped over to a big paper shredder while Putin decides how much he’s won by this year
It doesn’t matter at this point. The same thing was caught on video in the last election and the one before and absolutely nothing happened.
United Russia and current Russian government really love to go through the motions and put up a facade, as then their supporters have additional grounds to retreat to in their demagogy.
They can always say “Oh but look we counted the ballots it adds up!” and if you point at manipulations like these they can say “Oh but these were unique cases! We excluded them and the votes still add up!”
Oh wow, they must have found some extra democracy in the back room! How kind of them to add it to the box in a totally normal and not suspicious fashion.
If someone walked in with a tray of papers looking bored, I’d think little of it. These folks sneaking around like fucking scooby doo villains is so wild.
I like how they’re in sneak mode, also that mixing technique. Truly a bizarre video.
That’s what got me. Like she was paid to act sneakily when adding the “votes”, but it wasn’t specified how to be sneaky - or she wasn’t paid to not be caught. I mean, one should assume that you can’t be that stupid to not realise that the camera cannot be fooled by you crouching in on your knees. Well to be fair, at this point Russians being stupid should not surprise me anymore
