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The numbers suggest strongly that Russia's Primorye gubernatorial election was stolen
Meduza
11:11, 17 september 2018

On September 16, the Primorsky Krai held a runoff gubernatorial election between acting Governor Andrey Tarasenko of United Russia and Andrey Ishchenko of the Communist Party. In the first round on September 9, the incumbent won 46.6 percent of the vote against Ishchenko’s 24.6 percent. As precincts reported their results on election day, however, the challenger appeared to be on his way to an upset victory, holding onto a more-than-five-point lead with just five percent of the precincts left uncounted. But then something happened, and Tarasenko suddenly shot ahead. Meduza explains why there’s every reason to believe that something was criminal election fraud.

The race’s leader changed very suddenly

Communist Party candidate Andrey Ishchenko was winning the election with 98.77 percent of all precincts reporting, but he began losing when the last 0.97 percent of results started coming in.



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