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Doug
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posted 29 February 2008 11:58 AM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
The Kremlin is planning to falsify the results of this Sunday's presidential election in Russia by compelling millions of public sector workers to vote and by fraudulently boosting the official turnout after polls close, the Guardian has learned.

Governors, regional officials, and even headteachers have been instructed to deliver a landslide majority for Dmitry Medvedev - Russia's first deputy prime minister, whom President Vladimir Putin has endorsed to be his successor.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/29/russia2

It's quite interesting, really. The election results have been pre-planned so as to show a good - but not too good - turnout.


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Cueball
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posted 29 February 2008 12:02 PM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Public sector workers should not vote, then? and if they do vote, they will vote for Phutin's man?
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West Coast Greeny
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posted 29 February 2008 12:28 PM      Profile for West Coast Greeny     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
No. But they shouldn't be told who to vote for by the government.
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Cueball
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posted 29 February 2008 03:34 PM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The article does not say the government is telling them who to vote for.
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Fidel
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posted 29 February 2008 05:22 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
If personal incomes weren't rising an average of ten percent a year, and if there wasn't a proportional voting system in place and recognized by democracy rating agency, Freedom House as an advanced electoral system in over 70 countries, and if Putin wasn't so popular in Russia, then I might be concerned.
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