Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence of vote fraud

Re:Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence... by huhtenberg on Sunday December 11, 2011 @11:16PM (#3342231)

Now, here's the funny part.

It is widely speculated in the Russian part of the Internets that this fraud is not Putin's doing, but rather a frame-up for Putin's party aimed at stirring shit up in the country. The ruling party would've gotten what they needed without this mess, and the voting fraud is allegedly a very rough hack job that was meant to be obvious.

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Re:Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence... by VladRussian on Sunday December 11, 2011 @11:59PM (#3342346)

according to that graph in the article

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9wJyYHagRbo/TuMibuRO59I/AAAAAAAAAM...

the same frame-up was attempted in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, etc... It is a nice double pay scheme that is completely in the nature of the current Russian regime - to get and stay in power through election fraud and blame the fraud on the opposition at the same time.

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Re:Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence... by abcd_f on Monday December 12, 2011 @12:08AM (#3342368)

It's not being blamed on the opposition from what I can tell, but rather quite squarely on the US that is meddling with Russia's internal affairs.

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Re:Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence... by danielharan on Monday December 12, 2011 @02:51PM (#3344674)

Then it appears the US meddling is quite extensive!

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Re:Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence... by cema on Monday December 12, 2011 @02:35AM (#3342713)

  It is widely speculated in the Russian part 
  of the Internets [...]

Not at all. This is the first time I see it proposed seriously, and I monitor the Russian internets quite closely.

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Re:Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence... by ati on Monday December 12, 2011 @03:12AM (#3342790)

I second that. If this is anti-Putin frame-up, he would be the first to investigate election fraud. Actually the opposite is the case, russian authorities repeatedly say that elections were clean and fair.

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Re:Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence... by culebron on Monday December 12, 2011 @02:43AM (#3342728)

Not at all. The majority of the people aren't that fool. I'd say you can't fool others at all: earlier or later this gets discovered.

A small number of the ruling party supporters do suppose this. I guess part of them are real zealots, but there is another part that are just paid for blog & news comments. (Screenshots of announcements of such jobs were circulating recently.)

Now, the problem is if we (Russians) can achieve anything with this evidence. The quality of the political opposition is very low. Most of them do fight each other more than work for the people's needs.

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Re:Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence... by anghyflawn on Monday December 12, 2011 @04:10AM (#3342922)

Do you mean the head of the election commission's ridiculous claim that all the videos of ballot stuffing, multiple voting etc. were filmed in advance by the opposition? The only thing that the Russian internets do with this claim widely is ridicule.

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Re:Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence... by antonp on Monday December 12, 2011 @03:37AM (#3342846)

Huhtenberg, care to provide a link, please?

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Re:Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence... by agrostis on Monday December 12, 2011 @04:50AM (#3342997)

You, Sir, are Surkovite propaganda.

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