Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9945668
One resident complained of pro-Russian collaborators with ballot boxes going from house to house looking for voters accompanied by armed soldiers.
Vladimir Putin will certainly win another term of office, but a high turnout would help the Kremlin’s efforts to legitimise his continued rule.
It would also be used to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
USA: vote for either of these rich old men
China: these rich old men will vote for each other
Russia: neighbor, vote for our rich old man or we will shoot you
Australia: voting is compulsory, but you can just draw a dick on the ballot if you want.
Europe: vote in a bazillion different levels of governance and still it’s the same old rich people who decide what happens
i wonder if I’ll be like half-super-powerful if I’m getting half of these qualifying attributes 👴🏽☠️
In the Netherlands you can also do this, but if you then attribute the dick to a politician it will be considered invalid.
Well technically, since the US has the electoral college, the US is what you wrote down is China.
But that aside, one of Chomsky’s books or something from the 80’s discussed exactly that difference. Or was it Slavoj Zizek? Anyway.
How in the US, there’s an illusion of choice, but how in Russia, there’s only the one option. Both Americans and Russians have equally much agency, but the Americans want to believe it isn’t true for them, whereas Russians are bored of pretending it’s not true for them.
Or something. Memory fails.
“Encouraged”?!
Reporters need to grow a fucking spine. They are being threatened into voting… And voting for Putin.
Local man encouraged to donate liquid assets to community by masked men in his house at 3am.
A glimpse of Post Trump Amerika
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Voting normally starts early in remote parts of Russia, but the procedure has been extended to the four partially occupied regions of Ukraine “for security reasons”.
Ukrainians under occupation are also put under pressure through a pro-vote campaign called InformUIK, ostensibly designed to inform them about the procedure of voting, as well as all the candidates.
Residents have been sent text messages informing them of the dates of the vote and tried-and-tested Soviet methods are also being deployed to attract them to polling stations, such as free concerts and food.
The day early voting started in occupied parts of the Kherson region, on 27 February, there were two explosions in Nova Kakhovka: one targeting the offices of the Kremlin’s United Russia party, and the other near a polling station.
Then last week Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate said a local woman helping the Russian administration hold the election had been “liquidated” in a car bombing on 6 March in the occupied town of Berdyansk in the Zaporizhzhia region.
While Russia-installed officials and media in occupied parts of Ukraine are busy promoting the vote, they do not focus too much on drumming up support for any particular candidate - and they don’t need to.
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