Opposition, NGO cry fraud in Russian polls

[DonViejo]

Source: Agence France-Presse




18 MAR 2018

Russian opposition activists and an NGO on Sunday reported ballot stuffing and multiple voting during the presidential election which is set to see Vladimir Putin win a fourth Kremlin term.

The non-governmental election monitor Golos, which publishes a list of fraud cases online, by early afternoon had counted 1,764 irregularities, including observers prevented from carrying out their work.

The movement of Alexei Navalny, Putin's most vocal opponent who has been barred from standing in the election for legal reasons, said it had sent out 33,000 volunteers to monitor the election. Navalny's website reported hundreds of cases of fraud, notably in Moscow and the region around the capital, Saint Petersburg and Bashkortostan in the Urals.

Support for Putin is significantly lower in Moscow and Saint Petersburg than in Russia as a whole, according to recent official polls.

Read more: https://www.afp.com/en/news/205/opposition-ngo-cry-fraud-russian-polls-doc-12r0771

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1. I thought his approval rating was like 80%, you know like tRump's.