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!
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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.
Reminds me of the time Ten Downing Street made a post congratulating Biden, but didn't properly edit out the word "Trump". Although was probably an intern doing a rubbish removal job on two pre prepared stafements
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
Makes it easier for those that do the counts to feign ignorance and they have 'evidence' of ballots for any potential external warchers of the election.
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.
They deliberately publish this to discourage and demoralise opposition
The opposition is in it. You're thinking of dissidents and no, they don't need extra demoralization.
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!"
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've thought the same, but then I thought of a theory. What if these people do it as weird as possible, so these videos get leaked, and they have video-evidence of how loyal to the state they are?
You know, to prevent yourself from falling out of a window.
Not me thinking this was definitely St.Petersburg Florida.
There are many more videos like this, it happened all over the place
I doubt that there are that much of videos like that. Russian government is very controlling of who gets access to recordings from voting stations. Often even observers, who are supposed to verify how fair the elections were, don't get access to the recordings.
I'm convinced this video was leaked only because of how silly these women acted. Probably someone shared this recording with a friend, he with another friend, and now we all admire this video.
I don't think anyone was on the edge of their seats wondering if this was the norm
Oh, that's what a stolen election looks like. Silly rabbits 😚
I dunno if I believe it. All you need to do is "count" the ballots. There's no need for actual ballots. I assume this is something else being misrepresented.
Putin in no way allowed a fair election. He's a tyrant. I just don't agree that this is what it says it is.
I like how this video was posted on shitpost community even before in your source (astapress). Shitpost community is the best source of news!