Mop up: Ballot-stuffing videos taint Russian election
ABC News
Videos have emerged from three days of voting in Russia's parliamentary election showing ballot-box stuffing in various locations across the vast country
MOSCOW -- In one surveillance video, a hand appears from behind a Russian flag to stuff ballots into a box. In another, a woman is seen removing ballot papers from under her clothes and, with the help of another woman, puts them into the box amid sounds of giggling.
And then there's the mop being raised by someone to cover a camera in a room where workers were reviewing documents after the polling place in southern Russia had closed.
A clean election?
Russian authorities maintained that there were fewer violations in the three days of voting for a new parliament than the last election in 2016, but multiple videos and photos of incidents of ballot fraud have emerged since Friday.
