Elections at gunpoint:
"Elections" of the President of the Russian Fakeration are being held in the occupied territories of Ukraine .
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These so-called "elections" are being held this year, for the first time and of course totally illegal, in four occupied Ukrainian regions: Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In these territories, voting started even earlier.

People are allowed to vote with any documents, including Ukrainian passports. Moreover, the voting takes place accompanied by armed soldiers. Residents are also actively forced to participate in elections, adjusted for the conditions of martial law under which voters live.

Although the occupation authorities have set up polling stations, voters are not required to go there, as the same authorities send campaigners with ballot boxes directly to their homes. It means that those cooperating with the Russian authorities walked from house to house with ballot boxes in search of voters, being accompanied by armed soldiers.

Ukrainians living in the occupied territories are also forced to vote by the InformPEC project. It involved home visits to all residents remaining in the Russian-occupied territories, often accompanied by armed men.
They collected personal data to compile voter lists, and during such visits, they sometimes filmed local residents.

Residents have already been sent text messages about the dates of the vote. Tried and tested Soviet methods of attracting people to polling stations, such as free concerts and food grabs, are also used.

The governor of Zaporizhzhia, Ivan Fedorov, claims that residents of his region, which is partially occupied, are being intimidated into voting.
"They go into every apartment, into every house and ask: do you want to vote? he says. "Our residents are very afraid. Of course, if Russians come to your apartment with soldiers and ask if you want to vote for Putin, everyone will answer: okay, fine. Because everyone wants to save their lives. But this does not mean that our citizens want to support Putin."

Meanwhile dictator Pootin reminded that participation in the elections is "a manifestation of patriotic feelings." The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said on Friday that "people are enthusiastically going to vote for the future of their country."

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Yes, of course they are enthusiastic... but how come you need machine guns for that?

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