Azar did a great job: The carousel broke down How a Lenta.ru correspondent prevented illegal ballot stuffing A g*roup of journalists managed to stop an attempt at ballot stuffing at one of Moscow’s polling stations. To do this, the journalists infiltrated the ranks of those being used to organize a "carousel"—a scheme in which people vote at multiple polling stations using fraudulent absentee certificates. Read Lenta.ru’s correspondent’s report to learn how it happened and how the whole process works. *http://www.lenta.ru/articles/2011/12/04/carousel/

The scoundrel, the bastard, the long-serving head of the Moscow City Election Commission and, on the side, a dollar millionaire (Yury Luzhkov, former mayor of Moscow, kept him well supplied with prime real estate), Valentin Gorbunov will have to answer for all of this sooner or later.