Military experience: elections as a psychological experiment

I will begin, perhaps, with an insignificant story about personal impressions from the voting in Russia. No, I have not seen any terrible violations, carousels and stuffing. I have not seen anything special. I just walked from the station in a small town near Moscow - because I went to vote at the place of registration, roughly imagining what successes I have achieved digitalization in the country, and understanding, respectively, that it is impossible to participate in remote electronic voting.

The town is actually so-so, but autumn goes to him. Ahead of the school is not mine, I studied in another, but I was in this, I went to my friends. The site in the gym, on the site - quiet and grace. A bored policeman guesses a crossword puzzle. The middle -aged members of the election commission are asleep at their tables. There are no voters.

Because of the mask, the glasses are viewed, I don’t see the inscriptions on the signs, I ask, at which a person to receive a ball at the house from the house where I am registered with a table. Some revival, disputes.

“We don’t know, this is probably another site,” they say.

But this is that site. I sigh, wipe my glasses, find the desired sign. There is no reason for scandals, intrigues and investigations (yes, by the way, forbidden files with the names of candidates, the main symbol of a foreign attempt on the sovereignty of the Russian Federation, recommended to vote for retired TV presenter Gleb of the drunk if you suddenly remember who it is). I am on the lists, my ballots are on the spot, you can fulfill a civic duty. I start - not without disgust.

I recall the very lists, place checkmarks, go out into the street.

And suddenly I understand that this is all almost unbearable. Offective, no, a weak word - humiliating, perhaps. I just cast my vote to people who are not what I do not sympathize, this is also weakly said, rather, despise.

And this was the most optimal option of possible. I even sat down on a bench - so badly suddenly became in my soul.

The game of the Kremlin

“As you can see, to figure out why the liberals, according to Smart Voting, should have voted for the Communists, is categorically not clear,” the website of the Patriotic Channel “Tsargrad” reports . It is strictly unclear, of course, why the battalions of Donbass veterans are still not introduced into the editorial office of Constantinople to protect the Russian language from employees of the patriotic television channel. But with the idea of ​​"smart voting" everything is just clear.

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