Study shows Putin’s election victory doesn’t add up

Rather than being grouped around his total share of the vote, Mr Putin’s constituency results also gathered at six different peaks, five of which occurred at 75, 80, 85, 90 and 95 per cent exactly.

Statistical reasoning suggests this would be more likely to happen as a result of a mathematically ignorant apparatchik inventing numbers off the top of their head than from a bona fide count.

The sixth, and perhaps least plausible peak, occurred in Chechnya, where Mr Putin returned 99.5 per cent of the vote despite having been to war against the region twice. In one precinct, a remarkable 107 per cent of people turned out to vote.

So unusual were the Parliamentary voting figures, the researchers said, that the odds of them happening by chance would be roughly one in 10^70, or one in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

For context, this number is about a billion billion times the total number of atoms in the entire planet, The Times reported.

The researchers wrote: “These anomalies, albeit less prominent in the presidential elections, hardly conform to the assumptions of fair and free voting.

“The approaches proposed here can be readily extended to quantify fingerprints of electoral fraud in any other problematic elections.”

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