Putin: "The results of the referendum are amazing." Indeed, during the calculation, tens of thousands of votes against the annexation evaporated

Something in the results of the “referendum” in the so-called DPR really causes surprise. On September 27, at 22:48 Moscow time, RIA Novosti published preliminary results after processing 56.85% of the ballots. 94.75%voted for joining the Russian Federation, against 0.5%.

It is easy to calculate the absolute number of ballots: the next day Forbes said that 2,116,800 voters voted for the annexation, which amounted to 99.23%. Thus, 2,133,226 people officially took part in the “referendum”. Therefore, after processing, 56.85% of the ballots turned out that 63,669 voters did not vote for the annexation, including 6,064 against the annexation (obviously, 57 005 ballots were invalid).

Less than an hour passed after the first message of RIA, and a new one appeared - the results following the processing of 82% of the protocols. The votes for were 99.06%, against - 0.68%. This means that the votes against the annexation were already discovered 11,895. But the total number of the annexation (which voted against and filed invalid ballots) was only 16,443. That is, the number of votes that did not support the annexation in an incomprehensible way decreased almost four times.

Finally, shortly before midnight, the final official results of the “referendum” appeared : 99.23% per annexation. According to Forbes , the votes against were only 4938. Therefore, the total number of the annexation that did not support was 16,426, that is, even less than after processing 82% of the ballots. And the number of votes against decreased by almost two and a half times and became even less than after processing 56.85%.

Thus, in the process of counting the votes, tens of thousands of ballots somehow evaporated. And in fact there is something to be surprised.