Since people seem to have liked the last riddle I posted, here is a new one. It’s based on completely real events surrounding the approaching elections in Russia.
Independent observers and progressive bloggers in Russia are exhorting the voters to bring their own pens to the voting booths. “Please, don’t use the pens that will be provided to you for marking the ballots at the voting polls!” they keep reminding the voters. “During the previous elections, many people forgot to bring their own pens and used the ones that were given to them at the polling stations, and we all know what happened.”
Why do you think it’s so important for Russia’s voters to bring their own pens?
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the pens were not provided. and the ballot papers instead were stuffed in favor of putin/medveded supporters?
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It’s even worse than that. 😦 The pens were provided but. . .
Does anybody else care to venture a guess?
The Russian electoral system is one huge circus.
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Invisible ink!
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Ink the same colour as the ballot paper!
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Disappearing ink??
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the pens were provided but would work only when crossing the box of the putin/medveded candidates
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the pens would write only for the boxes of putin/medveded candidates
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the pens would work only when crossing the box of putin/medveded candidates
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And the prize goes to Stringer Bell and David Bellamy!
Pens with disappearing ink were provided on many voting polls during the last elections. It all came out because on some polling stations, they got the wrong kind of pens and the ink disappeared right on front of the stunned voters. Obviously, the right kind of pens would be the one that takes several hours to disappear.
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Because the incumbents replace the real pens with ones loaded with ink that disappears…
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Exactly.
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I was going to say: because in Russia, pen writes for you!
Now I feel silly.
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No, you are actually right. 🙂
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