Russia election: Arrests for vandalism as ballot boxes targeted in Putin vote
www.bbc.com
At least eight people are held for a series of attacks including green dye being poured into ballot boxes.

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Incidents involved green dye being poured into ballot boxes, the boxes being set alight and fireworks being set off inside polling stations, state media reported.

BBC Verify has so far verified footage of six incidents across Russia, including a video showing a woman throwing a petrol bomb near a St Petersburg polling station.

Other authenticated videos showed paint being poured into ballot boxes at various polling stations. In one, a woman could be seen pouring bright green liquid into a box in Moscow. Another showed a fire breaking out at a voting booth.

Russia has also enforced the vote in occupied areas of Ukraine - in the small town of Skadovsk, Russian-appointed officials said an improvised device exploded in a rubbish bin in front of a polling station, but no one was hurt.

  • JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca
    18·
    4 months ago

    Other than protest, is the idea that spoiling real-people ballots will make election-rigging even more obvious?

    • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works
      32·
      4 months ago

      I think the idea is the whole election is illegitimate, so they’re taking a massive shit on it in lieu of Putin’s grave.

    • Chuymatt@beehaw.org
      12·
      4 months ago

      Probably protesting that there aren’t any actual alternatives as they’ve been eliminated.