Russia Election: Fraud Violations Listed By Observers On Putin's Vote

MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Putin called his landslide win in the presidential election a victory in an "open and honest battle," but both Russian and international observers begged to differ.

The Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, a respected international watchdog, said the election that returned Putin to the presidency after four years as prime minister had "serious problems." The independent Russian elections monitor Golos said the vote was neither free nor fair.

Here's a list of the main violations reported during Sunday's ballot, which Putin won with 64 percent of the vote:

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Associated Press writers Nataliya Vasilyeva, Peter Leonard, Mansur Mirovalev and Sofia Javed contributed to this report.

Captions courtesy of AP.

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[Liban CZ]

06:25 PM on 03/05/2012

Democracy observers from US?
Same bunch was in Libya? The one Mr. Obama had to bail out?

[jazzman001x]

04:36 PM on 03/05/2012

.yeah.....who expected any different?.......this is going to happen here....and the Libbertards will say it was a" fair election".............

[sdmartintc]

12:48 PM on 03/05/2012

This is just a preview of our own national elections here in the U.S. in November.

[MichaelGuy]

11:41 PM on 03/05/2012

Each side will accuse the other of being a Tammany Hall or 1960's Mayor Daley/ Why don't we do like they do in Iraq and use ink on our fingers? I would trust an iraqi election more than an American one. I fear we will get a dialectic one in 2012.
"He who votes is nothing, he who counts the vote is everything" Joseph Stalin