12 May 2014

Donetsk and Luhansk vote in 'self-rule' referendum or referendum the Russian way

This from a brief BBC report:

BBC correspondents at a number of polling stations have reported chaotic scenes - no voting booths and no electoral register.

Sarah Rainsford in Donetsk says she has not seen a single ballot in the clear ballot boxes marked 'no'.
And here is a local eyewitness' report:

Referendum in Luhansk: you fill in the form, approach the ballot box - there stands a man. He takes the form, looks [at it]. If the vote is "yes", [the man] puts it into the ballot box. If not, crumples and throws it away, tells you to go and to think. The man is unarmed, but the perimeter is surrounded by gunmen. Told by parents of a recruited citizen of Luhansk that visited him.

6 comments:

Sennacherib said...

I know this is OT, but this is very disturbing news out of Nigeria.
http://neveryetmelted.com/2014/05/11/procul-harum-blamed-for-kidnapping-schoolgirls/

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Ha ha ha! That was a killer!

Sennacherib said...

Do not be so flippant reports indicate "Strawberry Alarm Clock" has been named a band of interest (which hasn't happened in 47yrs) and leads to the whereabouts of Moby Grape and Big Brother and the Holding Company are being actively pursued.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Time to involve NSA searching for all of them.

Pisa said...

Hot from RT: Self-proclaimed #Donetsk People's Republic bans Obama, Merkel, Ashton, Cameron from entry http://on.rt.com/1q9y34 https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/466161038556413952
But they forgot to ban NATO...

SnoopyTheGoon said...

They know that the chance of NATO ever coming to them is too infinitesimal, less even than that of Obama or others ;-)