Instead of reading the 248th highly analytical article about what exactly we should do in Putin’s ~~election~~ re-election, watch the Yekaterinburg mayor’s short video on the subject. Or at least the first three minutes of it. It will immediately become clear what needs to be done.
Surely you have no doubt that the mayor of the country’s fourth-largest city knows how this process is being prepared and how various procedures like the “real collection of signatures” are being carried out right now?
Obviously, he has all the information about his city, and this is genuine testimony from a public official.
“All officials, all civil servants, every public officeholder without exception has been given direct instructions to ensure maximum turnout. They have already won this election, and now the only thing they care about is turnout. Nothing else. ... They will drag all disabled people, all elderly people who have not left their homes, to the polls. Transportation will be organized. ... So I will say that a boycott is now a much more serious and effective action. ... All financial-industrial groups in the region have been ordered to collect signatures. They will be collecting signatures for Putin and Sobchak.”
So now each of us has two paths before us:
Do you want to help Putin secure a smooth, trouble-free re-election? Go to the “election” and become a participant in his re-election. No matter where you put your checkmark, even if you scribble all over the ballot, you will have voted for six more years for Putin.
Do you want to create the greatest possible problems for Putin during his re-election? Take part in the voters’ strike. Urge everyone else to join the strike. Come out to the rally on January 28 in your city and demand the return of your political rights.
This is no longer about “allowing Navalny to run,” but specifically about the fact that everyone who has not been brainwashed by state TV has simply been stripped of the right to influence the country’s fate.
No “voting math” makes any sense now. The approach is politically simple: help them, or hinder them.
Make your choice.