There may not have been any campaigning worth speaking about before this election, but there was certainly a mammoth effort to persuade people to vote on Sunday for a new president.From text messages to all mobile phone subscribers across the country, to presents being offered to first-time voters, every method of persuasion and seduction seems to have been employed.
In this far eastern port city, which gives Russia access to the Pacific Ocean, they were handing out baseball caps to students who made their first tentative steps inside a polling station.
In other parts of the region, it is reported that discount shopping vouchers were on offer.
Russia coerced citizens to vote using, cheap incentives. This puts the accuracy of the elections into question. this shows some of the lengths the country is willing to go through to increase voter turnout. Is this an attempt to seem more democratic?
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