Ukrainian Rebel Regions Vote, With Fake Election Monitors
Source: ABC
Two Russian-backed breakaway regions in southeastern Ukraine held an elections that were hailed by Russia but denounced by the United States, the European Union, and the Ukrainian government.
Exit poll results released by rebel leaders in the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic showed overwhelming support for the current leader of the rebel region, Alexander Zakharchenko, and his party.
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.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/11/ukrainian-rebel-regions-vote-with-fake-election-monito
Using the tools of democracy to subvert democracy. A sobering reminder on our election day in the USA of the spreading dictatorship of Putin's Russia and how far it will go.
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