Neeka’s Backlog has a fascinating report and photograph of a leaflet circulating in Bashkorkostan, where local elections are due to be held later this month.
Among other things, the voters were being warned – in bold type and, allegedly, by the head of Ufa’s Election Committee, no less – that if they failed to show up at the polling stations and cast their votes on June 26, they’d be fined 3,000 rubles (approx. $100). They’d have two months to pay the fine.
The leaflet is a fake of course – Russian citizens have the right but not the obligation to vote – but many people don’t seem to know this. Neeka goes on to note that, in last year’s Presidential elections, almost 90% of the electorate in Baskorkostan found their way to the polling stations.
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