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Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Sep 18, 2021 02:17pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, September 18, 2021 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Real Vishnevsky battling two doppelgängers who seem to have changed their appearance as well as their names
Vishnevsky already knew that two of his opponents had changed their names so that they were also called Boris Vishnevsky, an update on the common tactic of nominating a “double” to split the vote and deliver victory to another candidate.
But when a district voting poster was revealed on Sunday, it showed something far more shocking: three nearly indistinguishable Boris Vishnevskys, all balding, greying, and sporting matching goatees. As a Facebook friend of Vishnevsky’s pointed out, the simplest way to spot the real Vishnevsky is that he was the only one who bothered to wear a tie.
“This is all done to disorient voters, so that they confuse the fake with the real, and instead of the real Vishnevsky they vote for one of the fakes,” said the real Vishnevsky in an interview. The fake, or at least newer, Vishnevskys could not immediately be reached for comment. |
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