Shall we upset the “crooks”?

Like many of you, I have been racking my brains for a long time over the question: to participate in the elections or to join the “Nah-nah” popular movement. My doubts were put to an end by the wise election strategy of the ruling party.
Since I won’t be in Moscow on December 4, I, still undecided, decided to take an absentee ballot just in case.
It turned out that in Moscow this is very, very difficult. I couldn’t see my lane on the election commission website ( see for yourself ). The address and telephone number of the commission are also missing. This information is not on the posters cheerfully calling me to the polls.
I found only 2 (two) of these posters in my neighborhood. Both have hooligan inscriptions (no wonder the funny pigs from “Nah-nah” did the work), and where to “come and vote!” – it’s unclear.

There is also nothing posted at the entrances. And in general: I suddenly realized that there were somehow much fewer election calls in our city than in all previous times.
I finally got the ticket, but to do this I had to show extraordinary persistence using the Internet and calls (two) to the Election Commission, where for some reason the first thing they did was ask my wife’s full name. Finally, we had difficulty finding a hut without windows, without doors (and especially without a sign), where the precinct election commission is located.
They were terribly surprised at our arrival. When asked about the reason for the strange secrecy, they averted their eyes in embarrassment. When I asked, “Don’t you want a lot of people to come to the polls?” - they remained silent.
Some kind of paradox, I thought. Thousands of “ourists” are being brought to the capital to increase the turnout percentage, but they are hiding from local voters.
And satori descended on me. And the Third Eye opened, and I saw the Truth.
It's simple.
The “Party of Crooks” does not want Muscovites to come and vote. Afraid. If Muscovites come and vote, the results will greatly upset the Kremlin thimble-makers. It will be discovered that their own capital cannot stand them: the Kremlin lives without sensing Moscow beneath it.
And then I decided that I would definitely use my absentee ballot, even if not in Moscow. Harmfulness is one of the fundamental Russian national traits. I am not deprived of it either.
Listen, ladies and gentlemen, let's upset the “crooks”. Let’s not be lazy, let’s go and use “our chance to influence the country’s politics,” if we are being persuaded so unpersistently. For example, I, cursing, will give my vote for the sour “Apple”.

1. The “swindlers” did a stupid thing by removing M. Prokhorov from the race. Now the democratic electorate need not be divided into two streams: “liberals” and “Yabloko”. The chances have doubled.
2. Damaging ballots is also stupid. This will not change the proportions of voting, but will only increase the share of “scammers” among valid ballots. After all, every spoiled piece of paper is a vote lost by the opposition.
3. For me personally, it is important that the leader of Yabloko is the only one in this cockroach race who openly advocates the release of Khodorkovsky. The attitude towards the YUKOS case is a watershed along which, in our gray times, there is an almost indistinguishable border between black and white.
“Nah-nah” friends, grow up already, please! Understand: your student initiative suits the “crooks” perfectly. Whether you boycott the elections or chew the ballot, grunting mischievously, is all the same to them. As long as you don't vote for someone else.
Speaking of schooling. Here, one young man told me with a laugh how at work they are forced to take a photo with a mobile phone of an election ballot, where there should be a checkmark next to you-know-which party. “I’ll take a photo, no problem,” said this completely apolitical young man. - And I’ll be funny: after that I’ll take it and stick daws into all the parties. No big deal."
I’m telling you: we are a harmful nation.

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