Elections Matter

This election matters; in fact, they all do.

“Elections mean a popular vote, not this charade,” said Ivan Zhdakayev, a deputy from Sakhalin Island in the Soviet Far East who criticized the contested results of Russia’s first Presidential election in 1990. An election that took place only a year after its first legislative election in seventy years, the same year a crumbling communist-led Soviet union surrendered the Berlin wall amid…