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Vladimir Putin (71) was re-elected president in a landslide victory on Sunday. It is his fifth term in which he will lead Russia for another six years.
In total, about 76 million people voted for Putin, the head of the election authority, Ella Pamfilova, said. The Kremlin leader was re-elected with 87.28 percent of the vote, the electoral authority in Moscow announced on Monday.
Invalid votes counted for Putin
There was no real opposition in the elections. Meanwhile, the state propaganda machine was running at full speed, drumming up heavy support for Putin. The result was a record – supposedly.
Because what many thought they knew for a long time has now been proven in black and white by a report from Novaya Gazeta. Millions of ballots were allegedly forged by the Kremlin, and invalid ballots were summarily counted for Putin. The Kremlin’s critics come to this conclusion after their analysis of election turnout and the corresponding results in all polling stations.
Computationally improbable and unusual
They noticed that Putin achieved high results in polling stations where turnout was also high. But from a statistical point of view this is very unlikely and unusual. A deviation from what could actually be expected mathematically. In a pictorial representation, upward outliers can be seen, as “Die Presse” explains. This correlation between turnout and pro-Putin votes is intended to prove fraud.
How many Russians actually voted for Putin in their own country will probably remain a secret forever. In Switzerland, however, post-election surveys of about 58 percent of voters in Bern and Geneva showed that he lost the election among Russians living in Switzerland. Putin received 16 percent of the vote in Bern and 20 percent in Geneva. The most votes were won by 40-year-old Vladislav Davankov of the New People’s Party, deputy head of the Duma parliamentary chamber.
According to official figures from the Central Election Commission, 41 percent in Bern and 50 percent in Geneva voted for Putin. Dawankow received 38 percent in Bern and 29 percent in Geneva.
Source: Blick
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