Posted on 05/10/2014 6:30:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ukrainian military forces stopped and seized a vehicle carrying three armed men transporting guns, ammunition, and an estimated 100,000 ballots for a May 11 referendum already marked "yes" for the eastern city of Donetsk to break away and form an independent state, Kyiv Post reports. The men — which Ukrainian media have described as "armed terrorists" — were found with ballots in the trunk of their car on the outskirts of the city, a police source told the Ukraine Observer.
Many cities in eastern Ukraine have been under siege for about a month, including Donetsk, where the city's main government building and a number of schools have been seized by pro-Russian separatists believed to be backed by Moscow.
The new reports of fraudulent ballots brings to mind a similar incident in Crimea, the region recently annexed to Russia following a March 16 vote. A senior White House official told Reuters there was "concrete evidence" some of those ballots arrived to Crimean cities pre-marked.
The Russian government claimed the Crimea referendum resulted in a 96.7% vote in favor of annexation, although a Russian government agency later wrote on its website that turnout was only 30%, with only half voting in favor of annexation.
While the May 11 referendum seems to be moving forward as planned, even Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a surprising call to postpone the vote "in order to create the necessary conditions" for a dialogue between local representatives and authorities in Kiev, The Daily Beast reported.
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It might be true, but I won’t be surprised it it is marked by a government supporters to smear federalists for propaganda support.
Remember their Kerry-backed Jew-registration trick.
“How very Chicago of them...”
actually, it happened in Massachusetts a couple of years ago, but in a slightly different way. allow me to explain.
when ted kennedy died, and simultaneously people wanted to stop obamcare, the enthusiasm to replace him with scott brown was palpable. the democrats tried everything. the Friday before the election, the boston globe ran a front page poll they pulled out of the air showing coakley over brown by 16 points.
by Tuesday people were lining up, and they didn’t look like the typical democratic voters. the bosses knew they were in trouble. the best they could do is stir up trouble and hope maybe some people stayed away. so they turned to their allies in the boston media. so here’s what happened.
the 6pm newscasts ran a story about five ballots being pre marked for brown in Cambridge. now five votes in the communist bastion of Cambridge wasn’t going to change anything, not to mention did they think if someone got a pre marked they would just say, oh I guess i’ll leave it as is, but it just might turn people off from voting for brown if people sensed fraud. so, even though it would make no sense for someone in the brown camp to pre mark ballots, and only five at that, the news stations ran with it. talking about how it was already being investigated, blah,
blah, blah. hoping it might work.
it didn’t
It’s rays’ sis to imply voter fraud
South Osettia and Abhkasia!!! Same as always with Putin and his invasions.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
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