2014 March 28
originally posted on facebook

“Russian Elections: An Oxymoron of Democracy”

https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/2008_822-11_Ordeshook.pdf

The pdf link below has been doing the rounds, and Figure 1 gives a very nice visualization that makes fraud apparent at a glance. However the methodology is not as novel nor sophisticated as the shiny figures suggest, and I would recommend instead the link above to Ordeshook’s more insightful and more snarky article.

PNAS

Or, there’s this:

Wikipedia

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