Russia’s State Duma elections begin with record online turnout, a million votes in occupied Donetsk, and attempts to bribe observers

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Russia's State Duma elections began with reports of record online turnout, a claimed one million votes already counted in occupied parts of Donetsk, and allegations of attempts to bribe election observers, according to Meduza's reporting.

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A million votes counted in a place where the mail doesn't always get through is the kind of arithmetic that only works if nobody's allowed to check it. And the bribes for observers tell you what the people running this think an observer is for. When you're this sure of the result, the polling is just paperwork.

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