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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I still do t quite get it tbh. They added a few dozen votes. Not entirely to get to 88%. They are clearly still just reporting whatever numbers they want regardless of the ballots.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

The tsar said the votes should be legit and so they are! With a little help of course.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh my. I didn't realise all of russia was voting using a single ballot box. So it seems they really have monetary problems? 🤡

(And, yes, they are mostly making up numbers anyway, but there has to be checks in some places, to make it look "legit". This was one of them)

Edit: the video clearly has a jump cut, and isn't showing all of the stuffing. So it is actually impossible to tell what amount they added. But they clearly went at it for enough time to move around the box.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not me thinking this was definitely St.Petersburg Florida.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wonder which one is shittier

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Florida of course. St Petersburg in Russia is a beautiful city with centuries of history. Its history is only marred by the regimes of the past ten decades or so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I like how this video was posted on shitpost community even before in your source (astapress). Shitpost community is the best source of news!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Republicans taking notes.....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This looks fake af. Hillarious though!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I doubt that in reality they would try to hide

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

This is just the one that got caught and video leaked. Probably just because it was so ridiculous. I remember a previous ballot stuffing video that got leaked where the stuff just moved some balloons in front of the surveillance camera before obviously planting ballots. The Russian way is to put in the bare minimum effort to maintain appearances.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Oh, that's what a stolen election looks like. Silly rabbits 😚

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Well obviously this was orchestrated by the Western Pigs, but luckily the people have overcome these shenanigans by voting in such great numbers for Our Great Leader, that they could not achieve their vile goals.

On a serious note though, that shuffling "covert" action is hilarious...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Thank you for the laugh 😂!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like how they're in sneak mode, also that mixing technique. Truly a bizarre video.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There are many more videos like this, it happened all over the place

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I don't think anyone was on the edge of their seats wondering if this was the norm

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They deliberately publish this to discourage and demoralise opposition

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

The opposition is in it. You're thinking of dissidents and no, they don't need extra demoralization.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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.