One chart shows that there is no normal distribution for votes given to United Russia (UR) The other chart shows that percent of people who voted for UR grows when the number of people that voted grows
Let's think, which facts have influenced the results of voting:
А) External factors:
1) Votes falsification
B) Personal factors:
2) Authorithy of elder person, commander or tribe leaders 3) Mass-media
4) Standards of living
5) Rational thinking - when someone takes a pen and a sheet of paper and writes down proc and cos of voting for one or another party.
The regions where UN had the biggest number of votes where:
- rregions with large number of milinary men
- regions located on Caucasus (where family and tribe traditions are very strong).
There were no need to falsify election results in the Russian Army - it has very strong pro-UR propaganda inside and have almost no information sources other than TV which is also pro-UR
As for the Caucasus,
1) There are very strong tribe traditions there
— one for everyone and everyone for one.
— people tend tol vote as they are told by the elders
2) Opposition media sources (Kommersant FM, Musiness FM, etc which describe UR in negative way, are not widespread in Chechen Republic. Certanly, somene can use the Internet, but this is very small number of people in this republic
3) Russia gives this region large amount of federal money to rebuild and renovate cities that were destroyed during prevoius wars (this even caoused the campagin "Stop feeding the Caucasus!" "Хватит кормить Кавказ!" in other parts of the country)
4) Rational thinking factor is evident here
5) No need for falsifications there
I do not say that there were no falsifications at all, but I think that it is stupid to make such conclusions using only these charts.