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Russia District Calls Recount After Putin Rival Gets More Votes
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An election recount is underway in one Russian district after President Vladimir Putin failed to win the vote there, according to local reports.
In fact, one of Putin’s political rivals in the recent presidential election was recorded as gaining 10 times as many votes, reports said.
The polling station, in the city of Barnaul, in the southern republic of Altai, counted 763 votes for Communist Party candidate Nikolai Kharitonov, compared with just 73 for Putin, independent Russian news outlet Meduza reported, citing local sources.
Russia’s presidential election, which was held over the weekend, declared Putin the winner in a sweeping victory generally regarded as a sham and foregone conclusion.
Like fellow challengers ultranationalist Leonid Slutsky and the comparatively liberal Vladislav Davankov, Kharitonov does not oppose Putin’s war in Ukraine — a position that has seen him placed under sanction in both the UK and the US.
On March 17, one resident at another polling station in Barnaul tried to tear up the voting roll, regional outlet Bankfax reported.
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