The March 15-17 presidential election was the most rigged in Russia's modern history, according to evidence published by election experts, observers, and media. Estimates of vote rigging range from at least 22 million votes to about 31.6 million votes, without taking into account the online voting and the election

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.”

  • @Bernie_SandalsEnglish
    14•8 months ago

    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.

    • @hoshikarakitaridiaEnglish
      2•8 months ago

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