For the first time, some election workers in Russia have actually come out and admitted that numbers were falsified in the recent Duma (parliamentary) elections.
It looks like they use, primarily, three techniques: bribe officials to change results, bonuses for completing elections more quickly, and “carousel voting”, in which you bus a bunch of people around to vote at multiple places.
Perhaps the most troubling question is this: is Putin cheating only now, or has he always been cheating and he’s just now getting caught? My answer would be that his first election was legitimate, maybe even his second. He’s a genuinely popular guy for most Russians. But it’s hard to prove anything. As partisan as our politics have often become, at least the FEC does a pretty good job, most of the time.
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