Submission statement: The data science overwhelmingly backs up claim that Ivanishvili lost faith in winning a legitimate election and decided to operate an illegitimate election. Such brazen examples include certain precincts where the ruling party obtained exactly 100% of the vote and several other instances of statistically improbable vote totals for Ivanishvili’s party. Even some of his former prime ministers say their boss has gone completely off the rails into conspiracy theories and paranoia.
Commentary: I wonder if any casual uninformed observers will see “Georgia Election Fraud” and mistake it for events in the state home to peaches, rappers, and the legendary fiddle contest between the Devil and Charlie Daniels. No, this Georgia, home to mountains and monestaries, is quite different, and controlled by a madman.
It’s always very troubling to see voter fraud becoming a new weapon in the hands of adversarial governments as it undermines a lot of the foundation of democracy.
At least we used to see autocratic countries scraping up elections altogether or arrange a one party system, but then it became usual for countries like Russia to start banning candidates and publishing made up numbers as the official results, the appearance of perfect crime makes easy for subversives to claim that voter fraud has occurred where it hasn’t and stoke up tensions or justify as democratic processes that are orchestrated from start to end.
Strengthening institutions and designing an electoral system able to get verified by third parties in a independent and comprehensive way may be the only way to sustain credibility against these new hybrid warfare threats.
This seems like a really big deal. Just as big as the Ukraine war almost because the end result is the same: political domination by Russia, only in this case they achieved it with no bloodshed. This is similar to the situation Ukraine faced directly prior to invasion. Rigged election that got a Russian oligarch in control of the country funneling the country’s wealth to the corrupt oligarchs in Russia, only in Ukraine’s case they ran him out of office and back to Russia. Should a similar thing happen in Georgia with the populous rejecting control by Russia’s picked candidates, it’s possible they would resort to force like they did in Ukraine. I still think the ultimate trigger for the Ukraine war was the fact that Russia had achieved political domination before the revolution so they felt like something they had was taken from them and they wanted to take it back by force.
If this is supposed to prove Russian interference then the flood of pro-EU votes in the Moldovan referendum in the later hours should be enough to conclude western interference.
But obviously it will just prove whatever narrative is being pushed.
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Submission statement: The data science overwhelmingly backs up claim that Ivanishvili lost faith in winning a legitimate election and decided to operate an illegitimate election. Such brazen examples include certain precincts where the ruling party obtained exactly 100% of the vote and several other instances of statistically improbable vote totals for Ivanishvili’s party. Even some of his former prime ministers say their boss has gone completely off the rails into conspiracy theories and paranoia.
Commentary: I wonder if any casual uninformed observers will see “Georgia Election Fraud” and mistake it for events in the state home to peaches, rappers, and the legendary fiddle contest between the Devil and Charlie Daniels. No, this Georgia, home to mountains and monestaries, is quite different, and controlled by a madman.
It’s always very troubling to see voter fraud becoming a new weapon in the hands of adversarial governments as it undermines a lot of the foundation of democracy.
At least we used to see autocratic countries scraping up elections altogether or arrange a one party system, but then it became usual for countries like Russia to start banning candidates and publishing made up numbers as the official results, the appearance of perfect crime makes easy for subversives to claim that voter fraud has occurred where it hasn’t and stoke up tensions or justify as democratic processes that are orchestrated from start to end.
Strengthening institutions and designing an electoral system able to get verified by third parties in a independent and comprehensive way may be the only way to sustain credibility against these new hybrid warfare threats.
This seems like a really big deal. Just as big as the Ukraine war almost because the end result is the same: political domination by Russia, only in this case they achieved it with no bloodshed. This is similar to the situation Ukraine faced directly prior to invasion. Rigged election that got a Russian oligarch in control of the country funneling the country’s wealth to the corrupt oligarchs in Russia, only in Ukraine’s case they ran him out of office and back to Russia. Should a similar thing happen in Georgia with the populous rejecting control by Russia’s picked candidates, it’s possible they would resort to force like they did in Ukraine. I still think the ultimate trigger for the Ukraine war was the fact that Russia had achieved political domination before the revolution so they felt like something they had was taken from them and they wanted to take it back by force.
If this is supposed to prove Russian interference then the flood of pro-EU votes in the Moldovan referendum in the later hours should be enough to conclude western interference.
But obviously it will just prove whatever narrative is being pushed.
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