Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
The Quadrillion to the fourth power argument graces an insane, dangerous and all-over anti-American lawsuit. As if it weren’t enough, now the states of New California and New Nevada have filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the Texas…
A recount in Wisconsin’s two largest counties (by population) ended with Biden gaining a net of 87 votes over Trump. Together, the two counties make up 26% of the state’s population. Biden’s statewide margin of victory is about 20,600 votes.…
Here’s Meduza on the experimental “electronic voting” at the Moscow city election: …[O]fficials have assembled something even more obfuscated than traditional voting… [O]nline observers effectively will have no way of knowing if electronic votes have been counted properly. In essence,…
More from last Sunday’s election in Moscow: The candidate Putin reportedly voted for came third out of three in his district. The leader of United Russia’s faction in the city council lost his seat. Protest voters elected a dummy in…
At the previous election to the Moscow city council (aka the Moscow city Duma, Mosgorduma), the Kremlin’s puppet party (United Russia, UR) won 38 seats out of 45. Yesterday, UR’s candidates – all of them running as independents as the…
Alexey Navalny’s team not only asked fellow Russians to boycott last Sunday’s farcical election but also invited volunteers to monitor the vote. About sixty thousand volunteered and more than 33,000 were posted at precincts across the country. Even if most…
The Toronto Star has given this title to an AP story on today’s election in Russia: With a Putin election win in little doubt, Russian voters pressured to get turnout numbers up. At Al Jazeera, Mariya Petkova’s report appears under…
It’s a complete disgrace, this so-called Duma election today. No one to vote for, anyway. The day began with massive DDOS attacks on LiveJournal.com, newtimes.ru, bg.ru and a few other sites, including one documenting electoral irregularities. Back when I started…