To win in Russian presidential elections, Vladimir Putin received at least 31.6 million votes through falsification. This means approximately half of the votes in his favour were fake, claims Novaya Gazeta Europe.
This is a record number of fake votes in Russian presidential elections. So many fake voting ballots were put into ballot boxes that it is basically impossible to use statistical methods to determine “honest” votes, the media adds.
Using mathematician Sergei Shpilkin’s method, Novaya Gazeta Europe calculated the number of “anomalous” votes. The media used data compiled by “Nevibori” [Non-Elections in English] that’s based on 97% of ballots processed by the Central Election Commission.
74.5 million voters participated in the presidential elections in Russia. 64.7 million of them, according to data from the Central Election Commission, voted for Putin.
Shpilnkin’s method, on the other hand, suggests the winner received “additional” votes through fake ballots and editing of final records.
To determine this, Novaya Gazeta Europe compared the number of distributed votes for different candidates based on overall activity at each election site. Had elections been fair, the distribution of votes between leading candidates and other candidates should have been identical, that is, to differ only in absolute value due to the different number of votes, and not in form. However, the addition of fake votes for one of the candidates had affected one of the candidates: increased both the activity and results.
As previously reported, based on results of assessment of 100% of all ballots, Putin received 87.28% of votes. The Central Election Commission reported a record high engagement in presidential elections in the history of modern Russia. Head of the commission Ella Pamfilova said that more than 87.1 million citizens came to election sites, which is 77.44% of all registered voters. It is also reported that the Russian Central Election Commission managed to count all the votes in less than 24 hours. Putin received another six-year presidential term by winning in elections from which a well-known Russian anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin was barred. There were no opposition candidates participating either.
According to the changes passed to the Russian Constitution in 2020, Putin can serve for two more terms – until 2036, when he turns 84.
Putin is now on his way to become the oldest Russian leader that has ever served as president. If he remains in power until October 2028, when he turns 76 years, he will overtake the former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev as the older ruler of the Kremlin. If he ends up re-elected again in 2030, Putin will overtake Joseph Stalin as the longest serving leader, The Times notes.
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Novaya Gazeta Europe counts how many ballots were faked to secure Putin “full victory”
