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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on March 21, 2018, 02:39:38 pm

Title: Seeing 'Churov's Saw': Russian Researcher Says Putin May Have Received 10 Million Fraudulent Votes
Post by: TomSea on March 21, 2018, 02:39:38 pm

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Seeing 'Churov's Saw': Russian Researcher Says Putin May Have Received 10 Million Fraudulent Votes

Humans love round numbers, and Russian election officials appear to be no exception.

Official data from Russia’s March 18 presidential election shows that many polling stations reported turnout in percentages ending in 0 or 5 -- a phenomenon that a prominent researcher says demonstrates clear manipulations at the ballot box.

The analysis by Sergei Shpilkin, a physicist by training who is renowned for his studies of Russian elections, suggests President Vladimir Putin may have received more than 10 million falsified votes nationwide in his landslide victory, which handed him a fresh six-year term.

Read more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-election-fraud-10-million-votes-researcher-churovs-saw-putin/29111554.html (https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-election-fraud-10-million-votes-researcher-churovs-saw-putin/29111554.html)