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Russian Poll Worker Counts Referendum Votes Without Looking
Published 2 years ago
Video released by Russian state media today shows a Russian poll worker "counting votes" during the referendum to join the Russian Federation in occupied Ukrainian territory.
For the past five days, a Russian-run referendum has been occurring throughout Russian occupied territories in Ukraine. Today, video has been released showing a Russian poll worker tallying votes on that referendum without the poll worker even bothering to look at the ballots before counting them. Preliminary results from the regions show that overwhelmingly, in all of these regions where the referendums are being held, Ukrainians are voting to join the Russian Federation. In some regions, the vote is up to as much as 97% of all ballots being cast in favor of the referendum.
These measures are being taken to bring territories controlled by Russia "officially" under Russian control just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "partial" military mobilization which will see some 300,000 Russian men being drafted into military service. In the same announcement, Mr. Putin also stated that Russia was willing to use their nuclear weapons to defend what they believe is Russian territory.
For those of you who are bad at math, Russia just made large portions of Ukraine Russian territory with a sham referendum where the ballot counters didn't even bother to look at the results on each ballot before counting them as in favor of the move. It's worth noting that a lot of these regions are still actively being contested by Ukrainian forces.
