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”.