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CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS
3/12/2007
Local observers assert high voter turnout in Chechnya to be a gerrymander
The voter turnout of 99.21 percent on December 2, announced by the Chechen Electoral Commission, is hardly real. However, the outcome of this sort could be anticipated.
A spokesman of one of local human rights organizations said:
"It is well-known all over the world for a long time that wherever and whenever they announce such 'empyreal' figures of voters' activity, it always means falsification. ...In my opinion, any elections held in the territory of our Republic attract maximum 15-20 percent of citizens. Basically, they are civil servants. People are just exhausted by all these electoral campaigns, and they are firmly convinced that all the same the authorities will count votes as they need to."
"I'm confident that 'Yedinaya Rossiya' has not won this number of votes as a whole over the ...
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