They wrote about it on Twitter, but I decided to check for myself. You can try it too and type “Elections 2018” into a search engine.
Yep, that’s exactly right. Even Google’s artificial intelligence already understands everything about Russia’s “elections” better than any political scientist:
So let’s use our own intelligence as well and, recognizing that these are not real elections but simply Putin’s reappointment, refuse to take part in it.
The authorities understand the game and have stepped up their efforts aggressively. They don’t care who you vote for—the main thing is that you show up. Just look, for example, at the notices in schools in Yekaterinburg:
And we must not sit idly by. You don’t need to submit it to accounting, of course, but right now make a list of two people whom you will persuade not to go to the polls, but to take part in the voter strike.
Even Google will consider those who go to vote idiots.