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The amount of 50.x Vs. 49.x votes lately is too damn high.
Yeah, given what polls were saying this is shockingly close (65% yes iirc). Russian money down the toilet though so that's something.
BBC saying it'll swing further "yes" from votes yet to be counted thankfully:
Interesting BBC article. At the end, it says:
Addition: BBC finds evidence of vote-buying in Moldova [video, 1 min.]
I think we know.
The Kremlin tricking people onto voting against their own interests, shocking!
When the Kremlin wants people to vote, this never means anything good.
Other than Brexit, they're usually encouraging people to vote against their own ability to vote.
Stupid enough to not even take the money beforehand. Amazing. But exactly the type of people one needs to target for this.
Buying 300k votes can really swing an election. Honestly, itβs a miracle that it passed with the rampant fraud
Over issues with a broadly agreeable right answer versus the worst possible wrong answer.
Cake or death?
It's like those tests where people get shocked badly and then grow so bored by sitting still for 15 minutes that they voluntarily shock themselves multiple times just to cure boredom.
Except with permanent, life-altering consequences in some of these votes.
Death by cake. Sign me up! /s
Ehm, cake please.
We're gonna run out at this rate.
But what if the cake isnt good
Im not sure what to choose