http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9136299/How-a-mysterious-change-to-voting-tallies-boosted-Putin-at-St-Petersburg-polling-station-a-citizen-observer-reports.html
Historian Irina Levinskaya reports on her recent stint as a presidential poll watcher in St. Petersburg.
At the end of voting...the results she recorded gave Putin 466 votes for 47.7 %...followed by Prokhorov's 226...with 23.1%.
But by the time an official returned with copies of the vote...the results had changed dramatically...with 780 votes for Putin or 80.2%;...and Prokhorov with only 32 votes...or 3.3%.
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