Ukrania: what serious election interference looks like

Beyond even what ACORN would dare

Excerpt:

It was 5.30pm on election day in Ukraine when the thugs in masks
arrived armed with rubber truncheons.

Vitaly Kizima, an election monitor at Zhovtneve in Ukraine's Sumy
region, watched in horror as 30 men in tracksuits stormed into the
village polling station.

"They started to beat voters and election officials, trying to push
through towards the ballot boxes," he told The Telegraph.

"People's faces were cut from blows to the head. There was blood all
over."

The thugs - believed to be loyal to the pro-Russian presidential
candidate Viktor Yanukovich from his stronghold, Donetsk - were repulsed
only when locals pushed them back and a policeman fired warning shots.

I say:

Now *that's* tampering. But just to show they're thorough, there's
plenty of milder, more western-style shenanigans as well. Excerpts:

The most common trick was "carousel" voting, in which busloads of
Yanukovich supporters simply drove from one polling station to another
casting multiple false absentee ballots.

In another brazen fraud recorded by observers from the Organisation for
Security and Co-operation in Europe, voters were given pens filled with
ink that disappeared, leaving ballots unmarked and invalid.

The Ukranian version of red state/blue state

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