Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9945668

One resident complained of pro-Russian collaborators with ballot boxes going from house to house looking for voters accompanied by armed soldiers.

Vladimir Putin will certainly win another term of office, but a high turnout would help the Kremlin’s efforts to legitimise his continued rule.

It would also be used to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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    USA: vote for either of these rich old men

    China: these rich old men will vote for each other

    Russia: neighbor, vote for our rich old man or we will shoot you

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      Australia: voting is compulsory, but you can just draw a dick on the ballot if you want.

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        Europe: vote in a bazillion different levels of governance and still it’s the same old rich people who decide what happens

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          i wonder if I’ll be like half-super-powerful if I’m getting half of these qualifying attributes 👴🏽☠️

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        In the Netherlands you can also do this, but if you then attribute the dick to a politician it will be considered invalid.