Russia Election 2012: Ballot Box Stuffing Purportedly Caught On Tape (VIDEO)

Despite Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's claim to have won the Russian presidency in an "open and honest battle" last weekend, international watchdogs have found "serious problems" with the election, according to the Associated Press.

Among the string of accusations of violations is ballot-stuffing. In the video above, footage released by the Associated Press appears to show officials feeding stacks of paper into a voting machine.

Putin reportedly won Sunday's election with over 63 percent of the vote. However, Russian independent monitoring group Golos released a report putting votes for Putin at less than 51 percent, according to AFP.

The Associated Press notes that the Russian Central Elections Commission has cancelled the results from the polling station in Dagestan shown in the footage above.

Below, see other accusations of violations from Russia's election last weekend. Captions courtesy of the Associated Press.

Comments

[Gadgetman]

12:58 AM on 03/07/2012

Russia is one huge Mafia country

[Lacopez]

12:35 AM on 03/07/2012

Putin hired advisors from Florida

[Lacopez]

12:33 AM on 03/07/2012

OMG I am sooo shocked!!!

[onlitrade]

06:14 PM on 03/06/2012

Would you expect anything else from a career KGB agent?

[tuezdaygirl]

11:59 AM on 03/06/2012

Since the Florida debacle and...yes, I'm a Floridian, nothing surprises me. Sadly, the democratic voting system has become as corrupt as everything else. I still vote in every election, but now with a more dubious outlook. Sad.

[norman741]

08:48 AM on 03/06/2012

What hypocrisy! Ron Paul was cheated in Maine and perhaps 2 other states.

[JKnight17]

01:44 AM on 03/06/2012

this is comming from Putin ... is anyone surprised?

[freedomjones]

12:56 AM on 03/06/2012

When they gonna catch are rigged elections. Hacking democracy good documentary also look up clinton kurtis whistleblower on elections http://youtu.be/UDlH9sV0lHU

[KIVPossum]

12:20 AM on 03/06/2012

Seems to me if Putin had intended to commit widespread voter fraud he would not have had cameras streaming from all the polling stations.

[GhiaccioPronto]

08:02 AM on 03/06/2012

They must be cheating, why else would they do that in front of the cameras they installed.

[Davyhulme]

12:12 AM on 03/06/2012

I wonder if this is the same thing that happened in Florida during the Gore Bush election!

[americanalien]

11:56 PM on 03/05/2012

If Яepublicans had their way, this would be commonplace in America's elections. Instead they try to do it through clever ways by pushing laws that would disenfranchise minorities who normally vote Democratic.

[KJ Pierson]

08:36 AM on 03/06/2012

Nah, Putin just watched Chicago Democrats at their finest and replicated it.

[godug]

11:17 PM on 03/05/2012

Never realized Putin was a Democrat from Chicago....should have guessed it, though. Socialism is the forerunner of Communism and the Dems love that philosophy!!!

[americanalien]

11:51 PM on 03/05/2012

Nice try. Only Яepublicans have a history of rigging elections in America.

[anoxic]

02:26 AM on 03/06/2012

Try to remember back to 2008 when Acorn committed voter fraud and for which canidate, hint it was not for a Republican.

[prncaragorn]

08:05 AM on 03/07/2012

So, you're for the ID's then?..

[FeelsLikeFrance]

10:53 PM on 03/05/2012

I see the Ruskies have learned the fine art of American voting practices. Now we know where Acorn went.

[delilah814u]

10:47 PM on 03/05/2012

It's too bad the United States didn't monitor our own elections this well when GW Bush stole the election from Al Gore, the person voted for by the majority of American people! We wouldn't be in the mess we're in now if Gore if had won. Just think of Gore for 8 years followed by Hillary.... I think we would be in a much better place considering the Clinton admin had a surplus of money when Bush took over. Talk about voter fraud! What hippocrates!

[BCS]

11:41 PM on 03/05/2012

Yes, juts think of all the free stuff you could get that others had paid for!

[gstephens222]

11:44 PM on 03/05/2012

Delilah8,
Your statements are false, plain and simple. You should be angry at the media that has lied to you.
No 1,there was not a surplus of money when Clinton left office. The social security and medicare liabilities alone were hugely beyond revenues. The Republican congress stopped Clinton from spending HUGE amounts of money. He refused welfare reform until the Republican majority came in and then went along with it.
All Al Gore had to do was win either his home state or Clinton's home state, which he did not.
Popular majority? In California, over a million absentee votes were not counted. Why? Because if all went for Bush, it would not change the state-wide win for Gore. It was pointless to count them. However, absentee ballots usually went 80% Republican. So, until all votes are counted, you cannot say who won the popular vote. You are talking about a small part of a percent nation wide.
In 2004, Bush was re-elected by over 4 million votes.
Clinton should have resigned and that would have given President Gore the edge he needed to win. With less than 2 years in office, he could run two more times.
Blame Gore for losing. One big theme of his was Iraq.
Go and view the you tube videos. He complained that the first Pres Bush did not go in and get Sadam Hussein. Bush 1 said it would bog us down in a civil war and cost lives and money.

[MrAmericanMadeOnly]

10:40 PM on 03/05/2012

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[wdc39]

11:49 PM on 03/05/2012

Your entire post is bunk. If anyone has a hold on anybody, it's Soros' grip on the Dems.

[prncaragorn]

08:10 AM on 03/07/2012

The next time you're out of your padded room ask if you can walk in the garden instead of using pc.