That has either the effect that the vote counter just has a laugh while not effecting the published numbers, or the far worse effect of the FSB standing in front of the voters door in a few days.
Please read the article before posting a comment. Headlines are intentionally written in a way to attract your attention often omitting key factors. Especially if a headline seems egregious it’s worth to check if the article itself has more information that would answer some obvious questions, like in this case where a blogger already known by the secret service posted a video about the voting ballot. It is still a shitty thing to happen, elections are by no means free in Russia.
Oh, must be a good democratic voting system if you can know who did it, full transparency! nothing to hide if you did vote for the good one!
He posted a video of it. This means that:
what happens when a protest ballot catches the vote counter off guard because it’s really fucking funny
That has either the effect that the vote counter just has a laugh while not effecting the published numbers, or the far worse effect of the FSB standing in front of the voters door in a few days.
Please read the article before posting a comment. Headlines are intentionally written in a way to attract your attention often omitting key factors. Especially if a headline seems egregious it’s worth to check if the article itself has more information that would answer some obvious questions, like in this case where a blogger already known by the secret service posted a video about the voting ballot. It is still a shitty thing to happen, elections are by no means free in Russia.