Elections were held in the districts of Krasnodar Krai affected by the recent catastrophic flooding.
source These were snap elections, because the district heads had been removed from office by Governor Tkachev, as a way of at least somewhat responding to the nationwide calls for Tkachev himself to resign. The helplessness, disorganization, and constant lying shown by the regional authorities at the time could be written straight into disaster-response textbooks. The famous "what, were we supposed to go door to door?" was just one detail, though a very telling one. So, the elections have taken place. Governor Tkachev is very pleased:
It turns out he not only "dealt with the aftermath," but even received a "vote of confidence." Amazing, isn’t it? After such a failure, how can anyone talk about a "vote of confidence," and how did residents of these districts even manage to vote for Tkachev’s people and United Russia? Did they really all lose their memory? Before saying there’s something wrong with the residents, let’s look at the official voting records. We’ll immediately see how this so-called "vote of confidence" was produced. Voting outside a polling station is an exceptional procedure, intended for people who absolutely cannot make it to the polling place. Very elderly people, immobile disabled people, and so on. Voting outside the polling station is a cumbersome, very time-consuming process with a complicated procedure. Anyone who has served as an observer and accompanied this kind of voting knows: you spend hours walking around, and in the end five or six very elderly grandmothers vote, each taking 20 minutes to find her passport and then asking someone to read out what the ballot says. Apparently something happened yesterday in Krasnodar Krai, because entire towns and districts suddenly became bedridden and ill: In Abinsky District, 15% of voters were struck down by serious illnesses, yet still managed to submit requests for off-site voting. What responsible people — they got sick, but still fulfilled their civic duty.
In Krymsky District — 16%
In Korenovsky District —*** 25%***
In the Moldavanskoye rural settlement of Krymsky District — 24%
In the Nizhnebakanskoye rural settlement of Krymsky District — 21%
And today’s prize in the category "MAXIMUM VOTE OF CONFIDENCE" goes to Slavyansky District. There, more "bedridden patients" voted than healthy people — 56%
This is simply wonderful and astonishing , and also utterly shameless.
An excellent calculation was done by the website "Slavyansk-2":
If each supposedly legless voter took 10 minutes, then off-site voting consumed a total of 1,319 hours. Voting itself lasts only 12 hours. If off-site voting was conducted continuously for all that time, that means 109 teams in 109 cars were driving around the city with portable ballot boxes, nonstop serving this frail electorate! If that really was the case, then all that remains is to marvel at the skill of the manager who organized this operation so brilliantly!
Today, December 10, we called local clinics and the central district hospital to ask whether there had been an increase in house calls for emergency medical care and in the overall illness rate among Slavyansk residents over the past weekend. We were assured that the number of sick people on those days was at the usual level.
Where were the observers, you ask? There were no observers, just as there were no independent candidates. The candidates were removed from the election, and so the observers were automatically barred as well.
Obviously, with this level of off-site voting, the election results can be considered honest only to the same extent that Governor Tkachev’s niece’s billions can be considered the product of a young entrepreneur’s talent.
So that’s your vote of confidence.
It is symbolic that I have to write this post on December 10, exactly one year after the first truly mass rally against election fraud and vote theft.
They remember perfectly well how it’s done, they do it openly, and they will keep doing it unless we stop them.
Everything we were talking about a year ago is no less relevant by a single gram (or whatever the unit of measurement for fraud is — not by a single milli-Churov (a sarcastic reference to Vladimir Churov, the former head of Russia’s Central Election Commission, associated with election fraud)).
The current results (as of 14:00 Moscow time) of the vote on our position regarding the route of the December 15 march are as follows (the voting is still ongoing):
(source) See you on the 15th:
http://youtu.be/1-X0KsFUyHQ
(sharing the video is highly encouraged and rewarded with a vote of confidence)