Polls have opened in Russia's Far East for the presidential election in which Vladimir Putin seeks

[MelissaB]

Polls have opened in Russia's Far East for the presidential election in which Vladimir Putin seeks a 4th term. -AP on twitter

Can we make project the winner now?

[monmouth4]

1. Wouldn't it be great if a hacker got into their system and his opponent won? Poor soul would be

dead by Thursday..

[Bleacher Creature]

2. The suspense is killing me!

Could it go to a recount?

[Iliyah]

3. Russia's elections are rigged for Putin to ALWAYS win by a large

margin.

[MelissaB]

4. For those of you tracking today's election in Russia, here's the minute-by-minute graph on Putin's

reelection chances.

Link to tweet

[bluestarone]

5. Waiting for them to do what China did

LIFETIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[democratisphere]

6. How can Russian voters elect this heinous, corrupt criminal as president.

Guess for the same reason drumpf occupies the oval office.

[bluestarone]

7. gonna be an all nighter

Prob won't be decided til wee hours of the morning!! (sarcasm here)

[Nevernose]

8. Im going to be fair to Putin for a moment

The guy has a 70% approval rating. Apparently the Russians love themselves some authoritarians. Thousands of pages of ink have been spilled on the issue: they see him as Making Russia Great Again and sticking it to the countries that were mean to them.

[Takket]

9. oh, they still have elections there?

[Yavin4]

10. Putin declared winner 2 minutes after polls opened. n/t