| mai said:
And here's an actual referendum in PMR from 2006: Yes to Russia more than 98%, no to Russia less than 2% with total votes nearly 80% from all people who have right to vote. So does that survery proves that given referendum with strikingly similar results is cooked as well? |
Couple things you missed.... pretty big things.
1) The chart you posted wasn't a poll of Transnistra citizens opinions. It was a poll of the Moldovian citizens on the future of TMR.
Note how it says Moldova there... and note how other polls either say Modolva or TMR based on who was polled.
A similar poll would be if you asked what all Ukrainians outside Crimea thought should be the future of Moldovia.
So Moldovians outside of TMR, wanted TMR to leave about as much as Crimean's were polled to want Crimea to leave.
They didn't chart the TMR vote, but noted that 50% voted for Independence and >33% Independence. The 33% for independence part is more important here then you would think. ~5% undecided.
So that's... ~12% of polled TMR that wanted to be part of Moldova in some form or another OR the Ukraine.. Compaired to 55% of polled Crimean's wanting to be part of Ukraine
The TMR people voting to be part of Ukraine looks like it's sitting around 4% on the graph, but it's hard to say since they don't specifically mention it. Though it's ALSO worth noting that they mention the Ukranian supporters put more trust in the pro Russia Candidate then the pro Moldovian one. So really that vote could also be seen as a support for independence/russian joining.
2) The poll in 2006 wasn't 98% in favor or joining russia. It was a two part split refferendum with two optionss
1) Renounce independence and possibly get rid of autonomy.
2) Stay Independent and maybe later join Russa.
The same trick was used in Puerto Rico recently by the local government to make it look like PR wanted to be a state when in reality they overwhelmingly want to keep the status quo.
But either way, the voting percentage the polling you qouted gave option 2 was in fact 83%. Which is quite a bit farther along...
Which when you consider the margin of error, no Ukranian option and undecided people not voting and all the reports of people going around harrassing voters and inconsitencies, a more overwhelming win isn't that unsurprising.
