I really don't care about other countries.
My own is a stink pit of electoral fraud and abuse!
I want a FREE and FAIR ELECTION in AMERICA!!!
That way, we can elect Ron Paul, the people's candidate!
"Russia parliamentary vote criticized as undemocratic; Putin calls win in the election 'a sign of trust' " by Megan K. Stack/Los Angeles Times December 4, 2007
MOSCOW - European officials and vote monitors yesterday denounced Russia's parliamentary elections as an undemocratic exercise engineered by President Vladimir V. Putin and his party.
After an intense and often surreal campaign that featured Putin as its star and almost sole player, voters delivered a landslide victory to his United Russia party.
Putin, a 55-year-old former KGB agent, appeared unruffled by the criticism. During his regular Monday meeting with Cabinet ministers, he called upon Parliament to assemble for its first session quickly, rather than wait the usual 30 days after an election.
The victory at the polls was "a sign of trust," Putin said. "Russians will never allow the nation to take a destructive path, as happened in some other ex-Soviet nations."
With 98 percent of the votes tallied, United Russia was poised to capture more than 64 percent of the vote.
The results gave Putin's party more than two-thirds of the seats in the lower house, a large enough majority to amend the constitution without the support of other parties.
Much of the criticism from the West focused not on events at the polls but on the carnival-like campaign engineered by the Kremlin.
So their elections are different from America's how?
Heavily state-controlled media cheered on Putin's party, government resources were abused, and opposition parties were harassed, the monitors charged.
So how is Russia different from America?
Other than the fact that OUR MSM shovels an insane mass-murderer at us!
Russia fired back against its critics, dismissing the complaints as unfair barbs hurled by their Western foes. Speaking with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov suggested that the foreign observers had been misled by the propaganda of embittered opposition groups.
Analysts shrugged their shoulders at what they depicted as a typical war of words in the increasingly belligerent relations between Russia and the West.
In the restive northern Caucasus, voter turnout reached nearly 100 percent, and some 90 percent of the votes went to Putin's party, according to official results.
In Chechnya, election officials announced a voter turnout of 99.5 percent and claimed that more than 99 percent of those voters cast their ballots for Putin's party.
That sure sounds like ballot-stuffing all right!
Notice how stinkshit AmeriKan press so focuses on corruption in places its Zionist masters want to turn into enemies?
Want to study election fraud?
Delve into the 2000 and 2004 American presidential elections!
That's a treasure trove of theft and sabotage!
Asked whether he believed those numbers were correct, Peskov groped for an answer.
"Well, it's a very interesting result. I don't think I have a right either to believe or not believe," he said. "At least, I don't have a right to speak about that. But I know for sure these are official results, and I don't have a reason to distrust them."
With the vote settled and Putin pushing forward with a new sense of popular mandate, attention turned to the mystery of how the Kremlin will reapportion power when Putin's last term reaches an end next year. Many observers believe Putin will find a way to hang onto power.
Yesterday, Putin said he thought the presidential and parliamentary elections are scheduled too tightly together and suggested that the government should hold voting farther apart lest the voters become weary."
Awww, how condescending of Putin. Voters are weary.
Considering the crap politics shoved around in every country, he's right!
