Everybody who works for a government-sponsored organization in Russia (teachers, doctors, college professors, tax auditors, low-level bureaucrats, etc) knows that the most important thing to bring to the election is a bit of black thread. Bloggers and Facebookers publish instructions on how best to use the thread during the elections.
Riddle: what is it that Russian voters actually do with a small piece of black thread in a voting booth?
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I don’t know what exactly they do with it but it’s surely something to do with compromising the secrecy of their ballot so their superiors know that they voted the right way.
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Absolutely. You are going in the right direction.
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Well if it’s Russia and elections, it can’t be anything positive or honest.
Wild guess: It’s attached or used to mark the ballot so that it won’t be discarded so that the ballots actually counted show a majority for Mr Putain?
Knowing what the voting procedure is like in Russia would help guesses.
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Yes, the thread is placed on the ballot. But for what purpose? 🙂
Hint: this is done by people who don’t want to be forced to vote for Putin’s party.
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I’m not sure what American ballots look like. Do you fill them by hand? Because if not, people won’t be able to guess this riddle.
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Putting this together with something I heard in Romania…
They place the string on the ballot, take a picture of it with their phone to show they voted the “right” way and then fill in the ballot the way they want to?
Phones aren’t allowed in voting booths in Poland for this very reason (not sure how well this is enforced in the countryside).
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Apparently this is done in Armenia as well.
http://www.panorama.am/en/news/2012/04/11/hraparak/777477
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Yep. This is what post-Soviet democracy looks like.
Everybody on this blog is so knowledgeable that I have trouble coming up with good riddles.
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Exactly. 😅 Poor dumb freaks.
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Yeah: http://www.designingdemocracy.com/sewn-with-black-threads/
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Exactly. But these losers don’t fight for anything. They behave like pathetic little children who are hiding from adults and giggling. I despise them.
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For showing everybody that they work for the government?
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Nah, it’s this:
http://www.designingdemocracy.com/sewn-with-black-threads/
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