Evidence shows recent presidential elections most rigged in Russia’s modern history (kyivindependent.com)
from mycathas9lives@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 15:03
https://lemmy.world/post/14794346

Another sign of rigging is that 2024 election results peaked at round figures, Shukshin wrote. This distribution of results looks like a saw on graphs, which led to the nickname “Putin’s saw.”

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clgoh@lemmy.ca on 28 Apr 15:35 next collapse

I’m shocked! Shocked to find that election rigging is going on in there.

audin@lemm.ee on 28 Apr 15:59 collapse

That election rigging is happening is very clearly not the point of the article.

jeffw@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 15:36 next collapse

I feel like the article would’ve been more readable with visual depictions of the vote distributions, instead of just describing them.

anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Apr 15:58 next collapse

No shit, he straight up murdered his only actual political rival.

anticolonialist@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 16:42 next collapse

The guy polling at 6% was hardly a rival. Several other candidates polled higher.

rustydrd@sh.itjust.works on 28 Apr 18:11 next collapse

The polling numbers would be more meaningful if there were credible polls.

[deleted] on 28 Apr 19:47 next collapse
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anticolonialist@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 19:48 collapse

By credible you mean in your favor?

JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 02:46 collapse

Yeah imagine removing a rival that was only actually polling 6%, what a huge threat to your completely legitimate reign…

anticolonialist@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 03:13 collapse

The 6 other candidates were polling way higher

YeetPics@mander.xyz on 29 Apr 15:14 next collapse

Too bad putler killed them all.

I’ll stop mocking you the minute your leaders stop killing each other.

anticolonialist@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 16:13 collapse

Show deaths of other opponents to back up your claim

JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 14:47 collapse

You are building my case for me…

[deleted] on 30 Apr 15:49 collapse
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FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml on 28 Apr 17:00 next collapse

This is a very dumb comment. The only party who could actually compete with putin was the communist. Navalny didnt get 3%

hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 17:03 next collapse

Probably because he was imprisoned. It’s hard to say what his results would have been, but a lot of experts said just by virtue of being the only opponent he could have beat Putin in a fair election.

FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml on 29 Apr 01:28 collapse

This community is very averse to facts, and those “experts” are very stupid. Propaganda is all you feed on

Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 01:56 next collapse

While they’re definitely wrong in ignoring the communist party’s value as a signal for disliking the regime/as a protest vote, you’re also feeding on propaganda if you think Navalny and his smart voting campaign weren’t a very large movement.

If Navalny wasn’t a threat to the regime, then Putin wouldn’t have hounded him for a decade.

hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 03:41 collapse

Putin might not have killed him, but he most definitely made him unable to compete in the election one way or the other.

YeetPics@mander.xyz on 29 Apr 15:13 next collapse

Quick, back to your propaganda booth 🥾👅

GiveMemes@jlai.lu on 30 Apr 15:31 collapse

Russian people tend to disagree with you on this one. At least those I’ve met and read the work of.

A friend put it to me that ‘the death of navalny was so hard because he was the entire face of resistance. Now there isn’t anybody for the people to gather behind.’ (not verbatim at all).

I agree that .world can be averse to truth, but I think you (and your instance) probably can be too

FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml on 30 Apr 20:44 collapse

I dont think they disagree because thats what the elections result say, you can check for yourself

humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Apr 20:23 next collapse

FYI In the last elections he passively participated, he got 27% while Putin’s bitch got 51%.

And we know that in Russia, the second tour almost always ends up not in the favor of the ruling party.

Skates@feddit.nl on 29 Apr 04:10 collapse

This is a very dumb comment.

Proceeds to write a very dumb comment.

Hey, I appreciate the honesty.

lltnskyc@monero.town on 30 Apr 15:09 collapse

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/…/ar-AA1nLp5U

anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Apr 18:52 collapse

Won’t someone rid me of this meddlesome priest??

lltnskyc@monero.town on 30 Apr 21:38 collapse

WDYM?

Kyrgizion@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 22:07 collapse

en.wikipedia.org/…/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur…

Comes down to powerful figures not needing to explicitly order killings, their underlings know implicitly when they have to take action.

Jaytreeman@kbin.social on 28 Apr 16:24 next collapse

Guy got 87%.
You can't get 87% of people to agree on pizza toppings for the night

billiam0202@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 16:50 next collapse

Shit, you can’t get 87% of people to agree they’re all hungry.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 17:00 next collapse

The sad thing is that of that bullshit 87% figure were still people who voted for him and far more than should have. There are way too many Putin sycophants in Russia. I realize it doesn’t help that the media is state-controlled, but it’s amazing what he can get away with and still be worshiped by a significant segment of the population.

I guess it’s not that much different from Trump.

Jaytreeman@kbin.social on 28 Apr 17:18 next collapse

(Assuming you're American)

Lots of Americans seem to think that state media is a bad thing. Lot's of countries get it right. Especially after it's first been implemented.
I'd often rather have a government (obviously not Russia, China, or in my case Canada) over some oligarch controlling it. Murdoch hasn't exactly been doing good things wherever he goes

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 17:20 collapse

I am American and I have nothing wrong with some of a country’s media being state-run. The problem comes when it is all state-run. That is the issue in Russia. All the media they consume is an outlet of Putin’s government.

humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Apr 20:37 collapse

I guess it’s not that much different from Trump.

It looks completely different from my perspective. Vast majority of Putin’s supporters are quite passive and want to have tomorrow everything they have today. They do not organize into groups themselves, and they are not invested emotionally.

I’d say that war supporting Z-groups behave much more like Trump supporters. But don’t let yourself to be tricked here, they are 2 distinct groups with not complete intersection

tudor@lemmy.world on 01 May 20:52 collapse

you can’t get 67% of family members to agree on who goes to the shower first

InternetUser2012@midwest.social on 28 Apr 17:14 next collapse

“election”

MrBusiness@lemmy.zip on 28 Apr 18:29 collapse

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Superfool@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 17:35 next collapse

I would love to know what the real figures were.

Could he have won without cheating, or will his ego not even allow a reasonable tally against him?

Daft_ish@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 19:56 next collapse

ITT: Unabashed Putin sympathizers.

Take note and do not listen to a word they say.

Vertelleus@sh.itjust.works on 28 Apr 21:01 next collapse

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phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 28 Apr 21:10 next collapse

Orlly!

King3d@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 02:25 collapse

Ya rly

TheJims@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 21:33 next collapse

This is what republicans want for America and they’re one stolen election away from pulling it off.

anlumo@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 12:30 collapse

Doesn’t have to be stolen, it takes one large trip-up by Biden and it’s totally legitimately done.

Fully supporting the genocide in Gaza nearly did it, but he’s now recovering from that luckily.

mechoman444@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 11:44 next collapse

What! Russia is rigging their elections so Putin continues to be elected president?

NO! Say it ain’t so!

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 29 Apr 14:30 next collapse

most rigged in russia’s modern history so far

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Blackmist@feddit.uk on 29 Apr 16:37 next collapse

I don’t doubt the elections were rigged (mostly in making sure anybody else with a fraction of a chance was imprisoned and murdered before the elections), but the Kyiv Independent might not be the least biased source around.

rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee on 30 Apr 15:15 collapse

In unrelated news, evidence shows the sky is blue.