Shocking footage has emerged of the terror tactics used in Vladimir Putin’s election victory, with a man being dragged from a voting booth by armed police suspecting him of ‘voting the wrong way’.
This came as evidence was released suggesting the Kremlin despot’s victory was based on between 22 million and 31.6 million false votes.
And a prominent communist lawmaker, Maria Prusakova, 40, defied her party, which has recognized Putin’s landslide, by saying it was based on “imaginary support,” in other words deception.
A voter in Putin’s home city of St. Petersburg is approached by an armed police officer in the voting booth.
He was forcibly dragged away after the police officer tried to monitor him filling out his ballot.
A male voter in St. Petersburg was dragged out of a voting booth by a police officer while checking on the man submitting his ballot
Versions of the story suggest that the officer suspected him of forging his ballot as a protest against Putin
Two officers eventually led the voter away before a female election official intervened and told police the man has the right to mark his ballot however he wants.
One version is that the police officer suspected him of forging his ballot paper – which he is legally entitled to do – as a protest against the warmongering dictator Putin.
Another is that he was thought to be ‘voting the wrong way’.
Another officer helps drag the voter away, but a female election official intervenes and tells police that the man has the right to mark his ballot however he wishes.
This example of voter terror is minor compared to the mounting evidence that the outcome was based on a massive theft of votes.
About 75.9 million voters cast their votes for the dictator and he officially won with 87.29 percent of the vote in the election.
Yet the independent news outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe has used a mathematical model developed by Russian expert Sergei Shpilkin, whose method has long questioned the veracity of Putin-era elections.
“Our analysis shows that Putin received at least 31.6 million votes through fraud, that is, about half of the votes were cast for him,” the newspaper said.
“This is a record amount of voter fraud in the presidential elections in Russia.
“There were so many fakes that it is almost impossible to identify the area of ’honest’ votes using statistical methods.”
Another preliminary analysis by the Major Stories news agency suggests the scale of the falsification of 21.9 million votes, based on the same model designed by Shpilkin, a physicist seen as Russia’s leading independent analyst of election statistics.
“This is a record number of voter fraud in the presidential elections in Russia,” says Russian expert Sergei Shpilkin
In both cases, the estimates are based on incomplete voting data and more precise analyzes will follow.
Shpilkin’s theory is that the ratio of votes cast for different candidates should not change depending on higher turnout.
So if turnout is higher and votes pile up for one candidate, it’s fraudulent.
This is the conjecture about Putin’s victory during three voting days from March 15 to 17.
It is suggested that votes were ‘added’ to the winner by stuffing ballots and rewriting the final election protocols.
“The distribution of votes among different candidates is compared with the turnout at each individual polling station,” Novaya Gazeta Europe said.
Communist MP Prusakova broke ranks among Russian politicians by declaring that Putin’s victory was based on forgeries.
“It must be admitted that today the authorities have all the tools – electronic voting, three-day voting, administrative tools and electoral legislation – to legitimize their political hegemony,” she said.
“But unfortunately, the result of this government’s actions has been only an increase in the number of imaginary expressions of support.”
Prominent communist MP Maria Prusakova, 40, defied her party, which has acknowledged Putin’s landslide, by saying it was based on ‘imaginary support’
Russian election statistician Shpilkin estimated that fraud in Putin’s elections has increased since he came to power a quarter-century ago.
In 2018 – the previous presidential election – some 8.6 million fraudulent votes were added to Putin, according to his analysis model.
Alexander Kirejev, a Russian-born election expert now living in the US, calculated that a vote on constitutional changes in 2020 involved 20 million rigged votes.
The 2021 parliamentary elections indicated that 14 million votes were tampered, Shpilkin said.
Putin’s spokesman described the 2024 count as “a completely unique result” – but according to this analysis it is only due to cheating on an epic scale.
By comparison, the alleged number of fraudulent votes is about the same as that of the 32 million who voted in Britain’s last general election in 2019.
Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the election result highlighted the “depth of repression” in Russia.
“Putin removes his political opponents, controls the media and then crowns himself the winner. This is not a democracy,” he said.