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NYTimes.com: At Chechnya Polling Station, Votes for Putin Exceed the Rolls

NYTimes.com: At Chechnya Polling Station, Votes for Putin Exceed the Rolls

Vladimir V. Putin did well in Chechnya, a place that he virtually declared war on after becoming president in 1999, and whose people have suffered grievous human rights abuses at the hands of Russian security forces. The final tally: Putin, 1,482 votes; Gennady A. Zyuganov, the Communist Party leader, one vote.

This result was in itself statistically improbable. But even more difficult for the teachers who had been drafted onto the electoral commission to explain was the turnout: there were only 1,389 people registered in the precinct, meaning that the turnout was 107 percent.

As dysfunctional as our election process can be at times, at least we don’t have anything as bad as this.

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