Election fraud Russia: forensic analysis

Enter the fascinating world of corruption, chicanery, low-tech fraud, and forensic tools that uncover it. The story is told through the eyes of a Russian election official who has participated in campaigns of all levels in the past 4 years and fought for justice (mostly unsuccessfully). Learn how to use statistics to detect ballot stuffing [1]. See the obstacles faced by Russians wanting a change. See how the government “wins” the elections.

From talk 2026-08-09, source (full presentation is 1 h long): "How to rig elections"
https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-218-how-to-rig-elections

See playlist of scrubbed election videos from US election 2020:
https://odysee.com/$/playlist/4f951bd5298ae1b67a19fb88c290fa8889a011d6

00:00 Explaining the numbers
04:46 Election observers
06:00 Running as opposition candidate
07:21 Voter turnout for Putin
08:45 Ballots
09:54 Why rig an election?
10:54 Sequential reading of ballots
12:51 Court case / appeal

[1] A. Podlazov and V. Makarov, Dual approach to proving electoral fraud via statistics and forensics, https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04535