"Anti-fascist" pro-Russian separatists try to legitimize elections by enlisting the help of fascists
No, really.
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/11/ukrainian-rebel-regions-vote-with-fake-election-monitors-real-anger/
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Though turnout was reportedly high, the vote lacked basic, internationally recognized safeguards for a free election. Armed rebel guards were posted outside — and sometimes inside — polling centers. Sacks of free or nearly free vegetables were offered for those who turned out.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, refused to recognize the election and declined to send monitors. Instead, a shadowy and previously unheard of group calling itself the Agency for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or ASCE, was brought in to monitor and certify the results. Most of the monitors belonged to Russian political parties or extreme fringe European political movements.
Russian media, including the Kremlin’s foreign-language propaganda network RT, however, continued to report that OSCE observers were present. The OSCE denied those reports.
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