Russian election: Putin got 99.82% of the vote in, er, Chechnya

But he won 99.82 percent of the vote in Chechnya on Sunday, ITV’s Bill Neely writes in his blog on Tuesday.

“It’s remarkable, because Putin attacked Chechnya twice in appallingly brutal wars with its separatists, wars marked by massacre and murder. All that is clearly blood under the carpet.”

The turnout in the precinct was really interesting, too, Neely writes:

“For example, look at Precinct 451 in the capital Grozny,where Putin got 1,482 votes and (former Communist leader Gennady) Zyuganov got one. Terrific vote. Except that only 1,389 people were registered to vote in the precinct. That means the turnout was 107 percent.”