Russia’s elections commission has said it found “dead souls” among the more than 100,000 signatures of support submitted by Boris Nadezhdin, the sole anti-war candidate in next month’s presidential election, in a sign that he could be disqualified from a carefully managed ballot meant to deliver victory for Vladimir Putin.
Nadezhdin, a veteran politician who has associated with Kremlin insiders and the opposition to Putin, has been waging a last-minute campaign to get on the ballot for the election, with thousands of Russians standing for hours in the freezing cold to add their signature in his support.
While Nadezhdin has not yet been disqualified, Friday’s briefing at the central elections commission indicated that he could be removed in the run-up to the vote. He has been summoned to the commission on Monday for a review of the “errors” among his signatures.
“There’s dead man’s signatures on this paper”
“What do you mean? They’re all standing right here in front of you”
bang bang bang
“See? Three dead man’s signatures”
I was seriously wondering how many conscripts might have signed before getting killed in Ukraine.
Wouldn’t it be strange to require 100,000 signatures and stop exactly at that number? I feel like they’re just buying time with this tactic.
He needs 100k signatures, but can file only 105k signatures.
“you have error in documents”
“What would that be?”
“In field ‘name’ is not ‘Vladimir Putin’. Grave error in documents, we cannot accept”
Was the error that he filed the paperwork to run as president?
Nah, he failed to fall out of a window.
Some of the names that support him are apparently from dead people.
Unclear whether they were dead before Putin’s people identified them.
He failed to spell Vladimir Putin correctly in the name field. Any other answer is incorrect.
How kind of them. They’re trying to save him from mysteriously falling out of a window.
If I ever ran opposed to Putin, I would never leave the ground floor. Can fall out of a window that’s 5 feet off the ground. Stairs just wouldn’t exist in my world.
I’d also avoid any kind of tea. Tea in Russia has been known to come with a complementary side dish of plutonium
That’s England.
Let me introduce you to “basements”
“Dead souls”… were they dead before patinas investigators identified them?
This is interesting.
It’s widely assumed that Putin has various measures to ensure he’ll win no matter who runs against him.
This could be an indication that he’s unpopular enough that even these measures won’t be enough to ensure he’ll win.
Same happened 6 years ago.
Also there was poll last year what maximum age should be for presidency. 60% are against 70 years or older president. Bunker Rat is 71.
I’m sure there were videos a few years back of goons openly shoving piles of paper into the ballot boxes.
Like, not even smart enough to do it off camera. Didn’t matter anyway. Nobody is going to do anything about it.
Until the majority of voters who lived through ‘91 to ‘00 die off, he’s fine.
I imagine the issue was with his Death Certificate it was filed, but the state sponsored hitman is taking his time.
Well it can take time for polonium to kill someone.
Nobody buys this, right? Putin’s people will find any error they decide they need to find
How convenient.
what’s even more convenient is they submitted them on the 48th floor… where the windows are well tended and open easily.
Always use Linux to file paperwork in Russia.
Windows will be the death of you over there.
Navalny 2018 all over again. Who could have guess that Putin fears anyone younger than him.
He fears anyohter other than him.
At least he tried. Hopefully they dont kill him for that.
Welp I guess there goes another window. Also, I would like to mention that the same game plan is being used by Putin as Cheeto Mussolini was trying to do.
2 peas blah blah blah. You get it.
Quelle surprise!
