Pens With Disappearing Ink Further Doubts About Russia's Elections
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As the United Russia party, based on preliminary vote results, heads for its fifth parliamentary election win since 2003, reports are building throughout Russia of wide-scale, familiar violations, ranging from ballot-box stuffing to compulsory voting by state employees. But one irregularity likely was not foreseen -- the use of disappearing ink in at least one polling station in the city of Khimki, outside of Moscow. Correspondent Timofei Rozhansky investigated.