Ukraine: Revolution and Election Fraud

This election cycle, a lot of crackpots have put out their theories for "inventive" ways to use theoretical voter fraud to explain the reelection of George W. Bush, as ably chronicled by Ward in various stories. However, if you want to see how real voter fraud is accomplished, it appears the situation in Ukraine takes the cake.

Maya Syta, a journalist working at polling station 73 in a Kiev suburb, witnessed ballot papers destroyed with acid poured into a ballot box. "The officials were taking them out of the box and they couldn't understand why they were wet," she said..."Then I saw they started to blacken and disintegrate as if they were burning. Two ballots were wrapped up into a tube with a yellow liquid inside. After a few moments they were completely eaten up."...The most common trick was "carousel" voting, in which busloads of Yanukovich supporters simply drove from one polling station to another casting multiple false absentee ballots...In another brazen fraud recorded by observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, voters were given pens filled with ink that disappeared, leaving ballots unmarked and invalid.

And now, it appears that at least one source feels that Ukraine is about to go through a Pro-Western (read Pro-America) revolution on the same order as the one staged by the Former Soviet Union state of Georgia last year. If so, this could be the best possible hedge against an eventual Russian devolution back into a Communist, Soviet, and/or Totalitarian state. What good, after all, is totalitarianism if you can't lord it over your neighbors and reform the former Russian Empire?