Vladimir Putin received at least 31.6 million votes through fraud, that is, about half of the votes for him were thrown in, Novaya Gazeta Europe found out.
This is a record scale of vote fraud in the presidential elections in Russia.
There were so many falsifications that it is almost impossible to identify the area of “honest” votes using statistical methods.
Using the method of mathematician Sergei Shpilkin, New Europe estimated the share of “anomalous” votes in the last elections. We used data based on the results of processing 97% of the CEC protocols collected by the Nevybory channel.
Excluding electronic voting, 74.5 million voters took part in the elections. 64.7 million of them, according to the Central Election Commission, voted for Putin.
Shpilkin’s method reveals how many votes were “added” to the winner by stuffing ballots and rewriting the final protocols. To do this, the distribution of votes for different candidates is compared with the turnout at each individual polling station.
If the elections were fair, the distribution for the leading candidate and all other candidates should be identical, that is, differ only in absolute value due to the different number of votes, and not in form. However, throwing in for one of the candidates affects the distribution: it increases both turnout and the result.
Based on the results of checking 100% of the ballots, the current Russian President Vladimir Putin received 87.28% of the votes, according to the data of the Central Election Commission.
Earlier, the Central Election Commission announced a record turnout for the presidential election in the history of modern Russia. According to the head of the commission, Ella Pamfilova, in total more than 87.1 million citizens came to the polling stations, which is 77.44% of voters.
