this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026
714 points (98.2% liked)

Technology

88183 readers
3233 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
714
Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 days ago by muelltonne@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
137 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Jeeves: "Will it be 87% again this year, sir?"

Putin: "Maybe 93%. Maybe."

[–] bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

It will be 79%

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

Nah it will be divisible by 5. They don't try very hard to hide the irregularities. There is a long history of oddly round results:

Pulled from here: https://github.com/dkobak/elections/tree/master

[–] Ramsesder13te@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

93%? Why not 108%?

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

Y'know I've often wondered that, but authoritarian propaganda seems to have a penchant for keeping its statements plausible. I mean they could take the piss and say it was 500% and it would be just as well. I'm guessing there's some psychological benefit to be had from keeping it "real", gives the rubble some kind of logic to cling to?