They just crossed the line. Very tight race in the end.
The amount of 50.x Vs. 49.x votes lately is too damn high.
Over issues with a broadly agreeable right answer versus the worst possible wrong answer.
Cake or death?
Yeah, given what polls were saying this is shockingly close (65% yes iirc). Russian money down the toilet though so that’s something.
BBC saying it’ll swing further “yes” from votes yet to be counted thankfully:
Moldovan media said many of the votes yet to be counted had been cast abroad and would likely lean towards Yes, as the Moldovan diaspora is broadly in favour of closer ties with the EU.
Interesting BBC article. At the end, it says:
A BBC producer [at a polling station] heard a woman who had just dropped her ballot in the transparent box ask an election monitor where she would get paid.
Outside, we asked directly whether she had been offered cash to vote and she admitted it without qualms. She was angry that a man who had sent her to the polling station was no longer answering her calls. “He tricked me!” she said.
She would not reply when asked who she had voted for.
Addition: BBC finds evidence of vote-buying in Moldova [video, 1 min.]
“He tricked me!” she said.
She would not reply when asked who she had voted for.
I think we know.
Nice
Yes for what? Ah, whether they constitutionally want to join the EU.
A BBC producer at a polling station in Transnistria relayed a first-hand account of a woman asking an election monitor where she could be paid the cash offered to her for her vote
Holy shit, Russia…
If you have a proper secret vote, then getting paid cash to vote is not a problem. The election judges just need to tell everyone that it is perfectly moral (a stronger case than just legal) to vote for something and collect the cash for voting against.
It is a secret vote. It’s up to the voter to keep it secret.
And also, how is getting paid cash to vote not a problem? It’s quite clearly voter manipulation. Are you Russian?
He’s saying the hard counter is to tell people the vote is secret. They can vote their way and then tell the person offering cash anything they want to tell them. They are under no moral obligation to tell such criminals the truth.
Elon Musk is finding this out in Arizona and Pennsylvania right now and it’s hilarious.
It was a referendum to make constitutional changes that would allow EU accession.
Not allow for EU accession, the Moldovan government could’ve joined the EU without the referendum. This referendum adds a constitutional requirement for all future Moldovan governments to keep working to join the EU, to basically protect Moldova from being fucked over by a future pro Russian government
50.3%, that’s clooooose.
Great news for Moldova. Hope the Russian trolls are super pissed.
No worries, Putin has that covered. Thanks to a concerted effort a lot of apartments of single men should be freed up in Russia in the next months. Some of them might even have running water.
