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>What's that pine tree with ~500 000 votes?

Greens. Second green ones, because there also another green party. They had some internal issues and decided to split. Don't even know who is more "real" and who is spoiler.

There is some specific thing in modern Russian voting system - using some kind of fake parties. For example, classic commies (KPRF, communist party of Russian Federation) is often viewed as not-so-controlled opposition (with limits), and to confuse voters government made another party - "communists of Russia". Sometimes they even try to use candidates with similar last names to make people confused much. Many voters decide their vote only at last moment, and many of them (especially old people who not ok with these tricks) confuse one commies for others. Two green parties may have same story.

The most extreme and most clownish example of that trick happened in Sankt-Petersburg recently: there is some candidate named Boris Vishnevsky (don't know really much about him though). Two his opponents changed their names to Boris Vishnevsky and even used similar (also slightly photoshopped) photos as their official images. It was very fun, although very third-worldish.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/06/three-near-identical-boris-vishnevskys-on-st-petersburg-election-ballot

>This I found dystopic. Imagine a future voting system where you tap on your phone and then you get automatic results with no possible way of knowing that how the whole society voted. You could be happy if your party/candidates won, it would be like a lottery or some shit.

Personally I think that democracy in terms that we idealistically imaging is dead. And this is global process, more complex that just some separate totalitarian tendencies. It is more like transition to another level of global technology that makes voting and voters completely useless, some kind of cyberpunk corporate dystopia (just without aesthetically cyber part) where people are more like product. And using democracy and voting as facade is outdated, because people already "trust the experts" in everything.

Don't know if it is good or bad, because there were no real democracy in past, only illusion that masses may control something, and only in small time period like 20th century.