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Webcam vote sensation: Poll dance, moonwalk & fitness (VIDEO)

Published time: March 05, 2012 18:40
Edited time: March 06, 2012 15:19
The polling stations recorded over 500 years' worth of live video
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A joyful pre-election disco at a polling station, or a voter doing the moonwalk - webcams set up in polling stations across Russia to monitor presidential elections revealed more than just ballot-casting.

­Over the past 48 hours, cameras at 91,000 polling stations – set up to observe presidential elections non-stop, ensuring they would be the most transparent Russia ever had – caught not only Russians voting, but also Russians living their ordinary lives.  

The polling stations recorded over 500 years' worth of live video, with some real jewels among them. Hilarious “a day of Russia voting” videos have already attracted nearly 2 million viewers.

Some joke that Putin, who ordered that all polling stations be equipped with webcams, may get an award for the best reality show.  

We have seen a man resembling Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov voting while dancing, children singing and dancing in a ring around a ballot box, and an observer taking a nap at the polling station. Another popular video showed two women doing exercises for their abs, possibly before the station opened.

A man doing moonwalk while casting his ballot got 200,000 hits on YouTube.


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Poling station web cameras in Russia’s Kirov region catch a party held on the night of March 3, hours before the station opened. The video was uploaded by YouTube user ylaUPP.


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The video was uploaded by YouTube user RaMaBoSS.


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A man resembling Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov is voting while dancing. Uploaded by The video uploaded by Youtube user UrfinJusRu.

Comments (10)

Срђан 24.03.2012 13:25

Cameras are showing people living their lives. "Hours of unexpected entertainment" is the right name. This is something you cant see on YouTube and other controlled environments.
We are waiting for hours of unexpected entertainment from other countries all around the world, east to west, north to south. All of them... Russia definitelly set new standard in monitoring elections.

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Walton 06.03.2012 23:05

91,000 cameras and to watch them you have to link to another social account online. So I can watch the politicians but only if they know exactly who I am. Also, it means that people who aren't familar with social networks are excluded from watching

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Bilal 06.03.2012 07:32

... cameras at 91,000 polling stationsI would like to see usa and many other european countries repeat this, before they criticize& nbsp;russia for anything regarding their elections.

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