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Hi, this is Navalny. So, are you ready
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to catch the crooks red-handed together with us?
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That is exactly what we are going to do very
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soon, and for that we need you
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not just badly, but, to put it plainly,
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without you, we won’t be able to do anything. So,
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here’s what we have.
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We have the crooks: the United Russia party, and the chief
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crook, Vladimir Putin, who on March 18
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is staging his own re-election.
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In every election over the past 18
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years, Putin and United Russia have carried out
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massive fraud, and this has always been
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their main mechanism for staying in power. Hardly
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anyone would argue with that.
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You can simply go on YouTube right now
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and search for election fraud
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and you’ll see a huge number of completely obvious
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and blatant ballot stuffing cases. There are numerous
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scientifically confirmed and mathematical
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calculations showing how elections are rigged.
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Elections.
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Seven years ago, in 2011, there was fraud,
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but it was carried out so openly and
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brazenly that it led to the famous street
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protests of 2011–2012. Putin was frightened by those protests,
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drew conclusions, and changed his
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tactics. And now the main mechanism of his
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victory will not be adding extra votes to his tally,
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but the elections themselves
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turned into a fixed match. He did not allow
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me to take part in the election and instead picked
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his opponents from among candidates who
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would not criticize him and, in general, would not
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run any real election
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campaign at all. And so a result of more than
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75 percent
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is simply guaranteed for him. In other words, you and I
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already know right now how this will
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end: Putin will declare a grand
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victory and the crushing defeat of all his opponents,
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who, in fact, have been on the same side as him
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all along. That is why you and I are against
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even considering this an
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election. Therefore,
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we are not going there, and we are actively urging
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everyone not to go. And this is exactly where
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the one real problem for Putin arises.
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He is confident in his result, but he
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needs people to come to the polling
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stations. Otherwise, it turns out that the show
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he prepared—the actors, the lighting crew,
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the coat-check attendants—everyone is in place, but in the hall
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there is no one. The audience is not interested, and they
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simply did not come. And that frightens him, because
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if people did not come to the election, that means
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they did not recognize it.
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That means they do not recognize his power. It is one
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thing to say, “I am the lawfully elected
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president of all Russians,” and quite another when
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half the country tells you:
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“What kind of president are you? We did not vote for you,”
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“and we did not even have any real election.”
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So what will the crooks do?
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That’s right: falsify voter turnout.
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And they have excellent experience
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in how to do it. Here are a couple of
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amusing examples for you. Buynaksk, 2016.
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Turnout in the election was very, very high—from
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70 to 90 percent. Quite something,
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we think. But then we notice that at
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several polling stations in that city there were
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electronic ballot boxes, and stuffing ballots into them
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is much more difficult. And at those polling stations where
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the electronic ballot boxes were installed,
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turnout was only 20 to 25
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percent. In other words, the real turnout
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in that election was about twenty-five
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percent, and 65 percent was simply fabricated.
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Bashkiria (Republic of Bashkortostan), 2016. A Reuters
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correspondent conducts an experiment:
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they arrive at a polling station and begin
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demonstratively counting people one by one.
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The election commission members were
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forced to record the real
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turnout in the documents: 23 percent. But across the rest of
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the republic there were no observers,
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and turnout was 70 percent. That means 47
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percent was stuffed. Last year,
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in Vladikavkaz,
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the official turnout in the election was more than
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60 percent. But journalists took
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video recordings and simply used the cameras to
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count the actual
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number of people who dropped
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ballots into the ballot box.
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It turned out to be 10 percent. In other words, 50
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percent was stuffed. You see how this
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works. And the thing is that such
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massive fraud is possible only
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if there are no observers at polling
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stations. Up to now, in the entire history of
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Russia, no one has ever tried to cover
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most of the country with an observation network.
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There have been various attempts, but mostly they were
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still limited to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the largest cities.
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And for the first time, you and I will try to cover
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the whole country. We are ready for this. There are enough of us.
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We have a network, we have
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the knowledge, and together we will raise money to
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organize this process. And we
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ran a trial last year in
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Tatarstan, where local
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referendums were held across the entire
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republic. And we deployed observers precisely
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in order to prevent
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turnout from being faked in those referendums. And
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do you know what happened? Across the republic as a whole,
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in Tatarstan,
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turnout in the referendum supposedly came to 66
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percent, but where our
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observers were present, it was 19 percent. And we got
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all those fake referendums canceled everywhere
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where observation was conducted. Here is the main
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link: go there and leave your email address.
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If you have already registered in order
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to support me, the system will
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recognize and identify you. Next, you need to
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it will take a couple of minutes to
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answer our questions, and we
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can understand
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whether you have experience or not. If you are
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an adult, that means you can
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work at a polling station
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if you are underage, we will find
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another role for you. Some people want something close to
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home, while others want to travel somewhere else.
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This will be a very difficult, large-scale
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task: to organize and coordinate
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the work
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of tens of thousands of people, but our headquarters is ready for
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it. We will do it, and we need you, wherever
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you live, whether in a big city or in a village,
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in the Russian Far East or the North Caucasus,
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somewhere near you
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there will be a polling station, and there
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they will almost certainly want to
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falsify voter turnout, and we want
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you to be there at that moment so that together with
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us you can catch the crooks red-handed
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