elk_cloner

waiting for that "interfere with US elections" button on gosuslugi to appear any day now

idk, hard to compare it to anything, because I haven't really lived anywhere else for longer than two or three weeks it's mostly alright, the public transport is nice I guess (although I do have quite a bit of grievances on that front too), can't imagine how people get by in a lot of other cities without a proper subway, considering I use it almost daily

Even in my bubble of university-educated tech professionals the support is at least 50%.

yeah, I kinda feel that. I'm a uni student rn, so my bubble is a bit less government-aligned I guess, but there are still quite a few people who support Putin

I want my 1000 rubles

well it's not guaranteed but 1000 is the minimum prize and I think most people I know who voted online got at least that and it's not real money of course, you can only spend them in certain places also now that I checked it, looks like it's a Moscow-only thing lol

I mean, election fraud is still very much a thing here in Russia, especially since the online polls were rolled out in the COVID days. it is apparently secured by the bLoCkChAiN, but come on, there's no way to actually make online polls fair and secure, and it's especially weird when you log in with your government ID account (gosuslugi/mos.ru) to vote on their website. also, all the people who vote online participate in the lottery, where you can win something like 1000 rubles to spend in certain shops (you don't participate if you vote the usual way with paper ballots, which is kinda telling) there are also discrepancies with the protocols, like these ones, where some votes have been transferred to Putin out of the blue, and stuff like this where cops suspected that a man was attempting to spoil the ballot and take a photo of it (which is not illegal btw) and forced him out of the booth (he was apparently allowed to vote with the ballot after that though, but it's not the only case like this) some of the more oppositional candidates (like Duntsova or Nadezhdin) were not let to be candidates at all for mostly BS reasons (these candidates were pretty lib though of course, but still, pretty much any opposition had been thrown out of the polls) I'm not saying that only like 30% support Putin here or something (I do think that the actual rating is above 50% rn, but the more young demographic you look at, the lower it would be, and I may be biased living in Moscow, where the oppositional sentiment is stronger than in other parts of the country), and obviously electoralism is doomed from the start, but what I'm trying to say is that I think it's foolish to believe that elections here are really fair and that the rating is not inflated (I doubt Hasan knows all this of course, most likely just jumping on the lib bandwagon, but I wish there was a bit more nuance surrounding this topic here)