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You already know perfectly well that these so-
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called March 18 elections are a complete
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sham.
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On March 18, Putin will effectively be reappointed, and
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anyone who goes to a polling station, no matter
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who they vote for, will be supporting Putin’s
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reappointment and his policies. And that raises
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an interesting question: will the authorities
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still falsify even this
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vote?
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With fake candidates and results known
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in advance, on the one hand
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we can see that the whole country is literally
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being driven to vote with a stick, while on the other
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hand it’s unclear why any of this is even
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necessary.
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We conducted a very simple experiment. You’ve
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probably received a text message like this:
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the election commission informed you that now you
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can vote anywhere, and to do that
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you need to go to an MFC (Russia’s public services center) and submit an
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application.
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I want to vote at this
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specific polling station. Various show-business stars
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posted on their
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Instagrams
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paid promotional posts advertising this
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option. The Central Election
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Commission said that nearly 3
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million people had already used this
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feature and registered to vote at
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the polling station of their choice.
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And all of this looks like some kind of massive
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scam. But CEC chair Ella
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Pamfilova assures us that everyone
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has been counted, everyone has been counted correctly, and
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no one will be able to go and register for 10
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polling stations
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and then vote 10 times. It is very important
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to restore trust in elections in Russia after all.
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This is Ilya Borisovich Pakhomov,
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a member of our campaign staff, and these are three
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tear-off slips from applications to vote
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at one’s current location. Ilya received them
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literally within 30 minutes, just as
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the CEC suggested in its text messages. Ilya went to
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the MFCs in the Novokosino, Kosino, and
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Veshnyaki districts of Moscow and, without any problems, got
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these three pieces of paper with signatures and
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stamps, each of which will allow him
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to vote in these fake elections on March 18.
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After all, at local election
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commissions there is no
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and by law there cannot be any
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nationwide voter list
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that would make it possible to check
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whether this person has voted somewhere
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else or not. There, basically, anyone
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can just show up with a worthless piece of paper like this
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and vote.
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Today, March 9, I received an absentee certificate
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for polling station 1764 and I intend to use it to vote.
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It’s very quick and convenient to get
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an absentee certificate this year—and not just for one polling station.
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We were too lazy to spend more time on this, but it is absolutely
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clear that Pakhomov could have obtained not three
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voting slips, but 33 or 133. And
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apparently, all these three million
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votes backed by such papers, which
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the CEC has already reported, represent a far
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smaller number of actual living people
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hired by local administrations.
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On voting day, they will simply
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be bused from one polling station to another, where
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they will tick boxes
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for the universally beloved great Putin.
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Because by any other method they cannot
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raise turnout. After all, any normal
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person understands that these elections are fake. In the
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few days remaining before the vote,
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do one simple thing: every
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day, write online, on social media, and
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say out loud that you are not going
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to the polls and do not recognize these elections.
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And, really, there are no
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elections at all. Look, it’s simple:
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internet penetration in Russia is 80
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percent, and 49 percent of the population
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uses social media daily. So if you, as a
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viewer of this video, don’t mind taking the time and
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simply write somewhere online every day
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that it is shameful to go to
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these elections and that you personally are not going, it
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will become an incredibly powerful campaign that will reach
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tens of millions of people, and it
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will work far better than these
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fake papers from Ella Pamfilova and
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Vladimir Putin. Subscribe to our
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channel.
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This is where the truth is told.