Terrible secret

On the day of the presidential elections in Russia there were almost 2 million fewer voters than there were at the Duma last December, Vedomosti writes. In the preliminary data for the presidential elections, the column “number of voters included in the lists” indicates 106 million 999 thousand people. In the protocol of the Duma elections in the same column there were 109 million 146 thousand voters. The Central Election Commission declined to comment on these figures. “Wait for the final protocol,” CEC member Nina Kulyasova told the publication.
A sharp increase in the size of the electorate occurred before the parliamentary elections. As of July 1, 2007, there were 107.062 million voters in Russia—1.5 million less than on December 2. Moreover, such a jump cannot be explained by population growth, since, according to Rosstat, there were only 408 thousand more Russians aged 18 years and older from 2006 to 2007. There is no data for January 2008 yet, but in recent years the number of adult Russians has grown no faster than 400 thousand people per year.
In principle, everything about these elections was initially clear, but 2 million voters appearing and disappearing are still a curious thing. And the main question is – why? It turns out that everything is simple: in the Duma elections, you need as many people as possible to vote for United Russia - more people - more deputy mandates. In presidential elections, on the contrary, turnout is important, and the fewer voters on the lists, the higher it is.
The further it goes, the more what is happening resembles the best examples of anti-Soviet absurdism - after all, now no one will ever know how many voters there really are in Russia.