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1 | Russia's Crimea Ballot Fraud that Wasn't | Vatom-Pifidianana Hosoka Ataon'i Rosia Ao Krimea Nefa Tsy izy |
2 | The Kremlin's ballot scheme in Crimea that probably never happened. | Ny fanamboamboaram-baton'i Kremlin any Krimea izay mety ho tsy nisy mihitsy akory. |
3 | Images mixed by author. | Sary namboarin'ny mpanoratra. |
4 | The Crimea will host a referendum this Sunday, March 16, 2014, to determine whether the autonomous republic will remain in Ukraine under expanded autonomy or ask to be absorbed into the Russian Federation. | Manatontosa referendum i Krimea amin'ity alahady 16 marsa 2014 ity, hamaritra raha hitoetra ao Ukraine ao ambanin'ny sata mizakatena mivelatra kokoa na mangataka ny ho ao anatin'ny Federasiona Rosiana ity repoblika mizakatena ity. |
5 | For the past two weeks, Ukraine's new authorities in Kiev have railed against the vote, arguing that the Crimean parliament has no right to pursue secession without the participation of the national government. | Tao anatin'ny roa herinandro, mingonongonona manohitra ny fandrotsaham-bato ny fitondram-pitantanana vaovao ao Kiev, milaza fa tsy manan-jò hizotra ho amin'ny fisintahana tsy misy fandraisana anjaran'ny governemanta nasionaly ny Antenimiera Crimean. |
6 | Some Russian Internet users are now concluding from images circulating online that Crimean state officials might be planning to exclude their own electorate from the voting process, as well. | Misy Rosiana mpiserasera internet sasantsasany mamoaka hevitra avy amin'ny sary mivezivezy an-tserasera fa misy manampahefana ambony Krimeana sasantsasany koa mikasa ny hanilika ny mpifidy azy tsy ho ao anatin'ny fombafomban'ny fandrotsaham-bato. |
7 | The photograph at the center of the ballot falsification scandal. | Ny sary nahatonga ny raharaham-panafintohinana fanaovana hosoka fifidianana. |
8 | On March 12, blogger Rustem Adagamov published photographs from Itar-Tass by Sergei Fadeichev of referendum preparation throughout the Crimea. | Tamin'ny 12 marsa ny bilaogera Rustem Adagamov avy amin'ny namoaka sary avy ao amin'ny Itar-Tass an'i Sergei Fadeichev momba ny fanombababa ny fitsapa-kevi-bahoaka manerana an'i Crimea. |
9 | In one photograph (see above), a young man is moving what appears to be a stack of voting ballots. | Tamin'ny sary iray (jereo eto ambony), zatovolahy iray mamindra taratasy tahatahaka ny vatom-pifidianana. |
10 | After Adagamov published the images, observant readers quickly noticed that the cover sheets on the stacks of paper were printed with pro-secession votes already selected. | Taorian'ny namoahan'i Adagamov ny sary, nahamarika avy hatrany ny mpamaky nandinika fa ny fonon'ireo atonta-taratasy dia efa voaprinty misy marika manohana ny fisintahana sahady. |
11 | The website freejournal.biz picked up the chatter on Adagamov's blog, running a story with the headline, “Ballots in the Crimea Already Filled Out in the Right Place.” | Norombahin'ny haba-tranonkala freejournal.biz ny karajia tao amin'ny blaogin'i Adagamov, namelona tantara miaraka amin'ny lohateny hoe “Vatom-pifisianana any Crimea efa nasiana marika araka ny tokony ho izy sahady ny faritra fenoina.” |
12 | The piece also cited a Facebook post by Ukrainian parliament member Oleksandr Briginets, where he reported secondhand information that Russian citizens were being bused into Simferopol to stuff the ballot box in favor of secession. | Notononin'ilay tantara ihany koa ny lahatsoratra Facebook avy amin'ilay parlemantera Ukrainiana Oleksandr Briginets, izay nitaterany ny siosion-dresaka henony avy amin'ny hafa fa misy olom-pirenena Rosiana notaterina bus nankany Simferopol mba hameno ny vatom-pifidianana hirona mankany amin'ny fisintahana. |
13 | “My mom and many people living in Feodosia saw these buses!!!” Briginets wrote on March 13. | “Nahita ireo bus ireo ny reniko sy ny olona maro monina any Feodosia!!!” hoy ny nosoratan'i Briginets tamin'ny 13 Marsa. |
14 | According to Yandex's blogs search engine, there are 780 separate pingbacks to the freejournal.biz post, meaning that hundreds of Russian bloggers-writing mostly on Vkontakte and Twitter-shared this story, typically expressing their anger about the apparent voter fraud planned for this Sunday. | Araka ny mili-pikarohana blaogy Yandex, dia misy domberina (pingbacks) 780 misaraka tsara avy amin'ny lahatsoratra freejournal.biz, izay midika fa blaogera rosiana an-jatony-izay manoratra ao amin'ny Vkontakte sy ny Twitter ny ankamaroany-nizara io tantara io, amin'ny fanehoany ny fahatezerany momba ny tahatahaka ny fiomanana hangala-bato amin'io andro alahady io. |
15 | A close-up of the pro-secession Crimean referendum leaflets. | Fandinihana akaiky ny singa-taratasim-pitsapa-kevi-bahoaka mpanohana ny fisintahana Crimeana. |
16 | Upon closer inspection, however, the falsified ballots in the photograph on Adagamov's blog may in fact be leaflets made by pro-Russia agitators. | Rehefa tena jerena tsara, anefa, ireo vatom-pifidianana misy hosoka amin'ny sarin'ny blaogin'i Adagamov ireo dia singa-taratasy avy amin'ireo mpanetsiketsika mpanohana an'i Rosia no tena marina. |
17 | The same day that Adagamov posted the images, newspaper RBC Daily published its own photograph-a close-up-of the same documents (see above), which it identified as leaflets produced by a local chapter of the Party of Regions. | Ny andro namoahan'i Adagamov ny sary, namoaka ny sariny ihany koa ny gazety mivoaka isan'andro RBC -fandinihana akaiky-ireo tahirin-kevitra ireo ihany (jereo eo ambony), izay fantatra fa singan-taratasy novokarin'ny sampana ao amin'ny Antokom-Paritra. |
18 | Admittedly, the leaflets were designed to be nearly identical to the real ballots. | Marina, fa namboarina hitovitovy amin'ny tena vatom-pifidianana ireo singa-taratasy ireo. |
19 | There are two important differences, however. | Fa roa ny fahasamihafana goavana ao anatiny, na izany aza. |
20 | Unlike the official ballot announced earlier this week by Crimean election head Mikhail Malyshev, the leaflets were printed on white paper. | Tsy tahaka ny vatom-pifidianana ofisialy nambaran'ny filohan'ny fifidianana Krimeana Mikhail Malyshev tamin'ny finadohan'ny herinandro lasa io, fa natao printy tamin'ny taratasy fotsy ireo singa-taratasy ireo. |
21 | (The actual ballots are being printed on yellow paper.) | (Tamin'ny taratasy miloko mavo no natao printy ny tena vatom-pifidianana.) |
22 | The paper size of the leaflets also seems to be larger than the dimensions that Malyshev advertised this Tuesday. | Ny haben'ireo singan-taratasy ihany koa dia lehibebe kokoa noho ny nambaran'i Malyshev tamin'ny talata. |
23 | Finally, of course, there is the booming red checkmark on the leaflets. | Farany, mazava ho azy, misy ihany fametrahana marika mena lehibe dia lehibe natao tamin'ireo singan-taratasy ireo. |
24 | If you look carefully at RBC's picture, you'll see that the box around the checkmark doesn't close completely. | Raha jerenareo tsara ny sary tao amin'ny RBC, dia ho hitanareo fa tsy mikatona tanteraka ny tsipika amin'ny mahitsizoron'ilay nasiana marika. |
25 | There is a small space left unfilled, making it impossible even to suggest that the vote was cast after the ballot was printed. | Misy faritra kely navela tsy ho feno, mba hahatonga ny fieritreretana fa tsy natao taorian'ny nanaovana printy azy mihitsy ny fanamariham-bato. |
26 | So does this mean that Russia won't try to steal the referendum on Sunday? | Fa midika ve izany fa tsy hikasa ny hangala-bato i Rosia [t]amin'ny fitsapa-kevi-bahoakan'ny alahady [teo]? |
27 | It absolutely does not mean that. | Tsy midika ho izany velively io. |
28 | But this one photograph and the reaction it's causing online do suggest that Russians won't be terribly surprised, if the vote is fixed. | Fa io sary io sy ny fihetseham-po naterany an-tserasera no mametrak fa tsy ho gaga loatra ny Rosiana, raha efa namboarina ny [isam-]bato. |
29 | Many are ready to believe the worst now, even on laughably circumstantial evidence. | Efa maro ny vonona hino ny zavatra ratsy indrindra mety hipoitra, ankehitriny, eny fa na dia amin'ny fanaporofoana mampihomehy aza. |