Biden Condemns Vote Fraud - in Russia

Timothy Birdnow

Irony is a lost art, and is largely wasted on modernity where it goes entirely unrecognized.

Take the recent elections in Russia.

In the most recent elections Putin's party has pretty much cleaned up. Why?

Well, for starters, Google and Apple removed a series of apps designed to help people find candidates not affiliated with Mr. Putin. Kind of like the way Google suppressed information that would hurt Joe Biden. Or like Facebook did too.

From the article:

Putin's highest-profile critic Alexei Navalny has already been jailed and with his organizations banned for being "extremist," anyone associated with his groups was excluded from running in this weekend's parliamentary and local elections.

On Friday, a 'Smart Voting' app produced by Navalny's group, which informed supporters which candidate was most likely to unseat Putin-supporting United Russia politicians,was removed by both Apple and Google. The Telegram app popular in Russia soon followed suit.AFP news agency sources said the companies faced threats of serious criminal charges and incarceration of local staff.

Navalny's team still sought to release the same information via publicly available Google Docs lists and YouTube videos, but by the early hours of Sunday these too had been blocked. Google, which owns YouTube, did not immediately respond to news agencies' requests for comment.

Opposition groups blamed Russia's media regulator Roskomnadzor. When the Google Docs and YouTube videos were published as a back-up, Navalny's banned Anti-Corruption Foundation tweeted, "How quickly will Roskomnadzor write another request and YouTube will fulfill it? Let's see."

Sooo...the same people who helped get Biden elected and who stoked the "Russian collusion" lie about Trump helped Putin stay in power.

There's more:

There have been widespread claims of electoral fraud. The Golos election-monitoring movement, which authorities branded a "foreign agent" ahead of the polls, and independent media reported thousands of violations.

The alleged fraud includes vote-buying and lax measures for guarding ballots at polling stations. Golos claims included ballots being stored overnight in a cabinet with a broken door, while envelopes for storing ballot tallies appeared to have been opened and then resealed.

Central Elections Commission head Ella Pamfilova said that more than 6,200 ballots had been annulled in five regions for procedural violations and ballot-stuffing. Pamfilova included reports of voting "coercion."

Friday's opening day featured unexpectedly long lines at some polling places, with independent media suggesting state institutions and companies could be forcing employees to vote. Online voting, new limits on independent election observers and the polls being spread over three days were also cited as opportunities for mass voting fraud.

Media in St. Petersburg reported suspected cases of "carousel voting," in which voters cast ballots at several polling stations. An AP video journalist saw the same voters, believed to be military school students, at two different polling stations.

A local Russian election commission member posted a video in which a man appeared to have tried to cast several ballots and then was confronted by a poll worker. The man in the video said he had obtained his ballots at a subway station.

Sound familiar?

In the past Putin has favorably compared Biden and the Bolsheviks. And Putin, being an old Bolshevik himself and supported by the Communist Party by and large, should know.

In a case of complete cluelessness Joe Biden condemned the vote fraud in this election.

He is the apex of lack of self-awareness!

Putin no doubt got the idea from Mr. Biden himself.

I guess elections are only unfair when other people stuff the box, eh Joe?

 

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