In November 2024, a photograph of the ballot from the city of Odessa in Texas spread in Russian-language Telegram channels, where Vladimir Putin was allegedly indicated among US presidential candidates. We checked the authenticity of this image.
On November 5, a photograph of a sheet with a list of US presidential candidates in the 2024 elections, similar to a ballot, gained popularity on the network. In the column where you can enter your candidate, the name of Vladimir Putin is written by hand, and under it the phrase: "Odessa is a Russian city!" Sources that distributed photos accompany it with a signature: supposedly this is the result of the will of a certain voter from the city of Odessa (Texas).
Photos with this signature posted Vladimir Solovyov (211,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Telegram channels Zergulio (147 000), "Special operation z"(61 000), Nina Vatt (33,000). Also, notes appeared in publications "Arguments and facts","Tsargrad" News.ru And "NIA - Kaliningrad".
In the United States, cities are often found whose names coincide with large settlements of Ukraine or Russia. Toponym Odessa Found On the map of several states, including Texas, Minnesota, Delaware and New York. In addition to Odessa, there are even more than 20 cities with the name Moscow - in Idaho, Kansas, Tennessee and other states. There is a large city in Florida Saint Petersburg, as well as several settlements with the same name throughout the country.
On elections day, voters in the US vote, as a rule, not only for presidential candidates. This year also in parallel Passed Elections to Congress, and in some states - and to local authorities. Accordingly, in each region, local candidates and questions about local reforms were included in the ballots. In the Texas district, where Odessa is located, residents, in addition to presidential candidates, Voted And for candidates in the House of Representatives, the Senate, as well as applicants for local positions, including the sheriff of the district, the district prosecutor and judges of various levels.
Bulletin in the presidential election can significantly differ Depending on the state or district. The difference may concern the order of placement and list of the candidates themselves. In some states of applicants for the post Distribute According to the alphabet, in others - by lot or in the order of party affiliation (for example, the current president may be indicated first). Candidates from the democratic and republican parties usually They get In the ballot automatically, as they have stable and recognized support. They pass the process of nomination at national party congresses, and then the names fall into the ballots of all states.
Nominees from third parties and independent candidates must Perform Special requirements for their name to fall into the ballot, and these conditions vary depending on the state. Usually they include the collection of a certain number of voter signatures or the payment of a registration fee, and in individual states and both. The requirements vary significantly: in some states they are simple, and in others they are more complex and expensive. Therefore, such candidates are not present in all ballots.
Count Write-in Provides To voters the opportunity to enter the name of a candidate who is not in the main list. At the same time, in some states it is additionally required that such candidates are registered in advance. Including this obligation There is And in Texas. Also in some regions non -ang -speaking voters can Vote in your native language. That is, where there are many Spanish -speaking people, ballots are transferred to Spanish. This is a condition Followed In Texas. Therefore, the very presence of the Write-in column in the photo distributed does not contradict the electoral laws of Texas, but it is strange that some signatures (in particular, the names of parties) are not duplicated in Spanish.
So, on the viral image in the ballot, the nominees are indicated in the following sequence: Mike Ter Maat, candidate for vice presidents from the Libertarian Party (presidential candidate Cheze Oliver, most likely did not hit the photo), the Green Party with Jill Stein and Rudolph Werry, Randall Terri and Stephen Broden from the Constitutional Party, Donald Trump and Jay Di Wans from the Republicans and Cornel West with Melina Abdullah from the party "Justice for all." They are all really were registered presidential candidates in the 2024 elections. However, the ballot ballot for residents of the oktor district, in which the city of Odessa is located, looked different. In particular, Terry and West there were not represented At all. West Passed As an inscribed candidate, like several other politicians, and Terry did not participate in the elections of this state.
Judging by lists of candidates for the staff, such a set could only be found in North Carolin or Oregon. And despite the fact that, as we noted above, in different states of the United States there are several cities with the name Odessa, Oregon and North Carolina are not among them. Also, the sequence of candidates does not coincide in the ballot. In the official document they go in this order: first Donald Trump, then Kamala Harris, Chase Oliver and Jill Stein.
The results of the presidential elections in the oktor district are shown only for four candidates, which are indicated in the ballot. Donald Trump gained most votes in this district.
The earliest appearance of the photo we consistent in the network, which was “verified”, was able to track, was in the Russian-speaking Telegram channel “Odessa public television z z"(9000 views) November 5 at 15:26. This resource is already several times Facing In our analysis as the source or distributor of inaccurate information. It is noteworthy that the channel is often Uses Fake ads allegedly posted in Ukrainian state institutions, or edited pictures discrediting the President of Ukraine. A photo of the ballot with the name of Vladimir Putin was found only in Russian -speaking sources. No authoritative American media were published in such notes or photographs.
In addition to a virus photo, some users attached one more as evidence. It also indicates candidates for the US president, but on the contrary the name of Donald Trump, it is written by hand: “V.V. Putin ". Such a ballot appeared in the Telegram channel Nina Vatt November 5 at 15:39 Moscow time (33,000 views), "🅉 Yakovenko Vyacheslav"(8000) and"Tasking News"(2000).
Only candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties are subscribed to this ballot, and they, but they, nominated by the Party of Workers' Family and the Conservative Party. Such a double nomination is possible in certain US states, and called It is Fusion Voting. The party of working families, as a rule, supports the Democrats, and the conservative - Republicans. So in the ballot, the candidate may appear from two different parties. However, most of the states, including Texas, Forbid Joint nomination. It turns out that in Texas there can be no such ballot, since it does not comply with the electoral laws of the state, unlike, for example, New York, where joint support is allowed.
Thus, these ballots cannot be used as evidence that voters entered the name of Vladimir Putin as a candidate for US presidentials in Texas Odessa. We cannot say that no one at all entered the name of Putin in Texas or other states, but we are sure: the evidence on which this statement is based on are referred.
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