Russia's "Fraudulent" Elections

This past Sunday, Russia held it's quadrennial elections. As most people expected, Prime Minister (and former president) Vladimir Putin won the election. He ended up winning a staggering 63.75% of the vote. He was one of five candidates who ran for office. Despite huge riots by the Russian people throughout the nation against Putin in past weeks, he managed to obliterate the other four candidates, garnering more votes than all of them put together.

Former KGB Agent, former Prime Minister and current President of Russia: Vladimir Putin

A group called the "League of Voters" (which was birthed back in December when Putin's party took control of Russia's parliament) said that "civil society in Russia was insulted" because of the "scammed" elections.

These protesters aren't the only ones crying foul. Several news outlets have been reporting fraudulent results, specifically from St. Petersburg, but a total of 4,000 polling stations are suspected of malpractice. 91,000 polling stations were used for this election, which makes 4,000 seem miniscule. But in the grand scheme of things, that is an alarming number. Putin had a little over 45 million votes; trying to measure exactly how many of them were scammed is practically impossible, but it's safe to say that a very large amount of them were (assuming that Putin did, in fact, tamper with votes).

An internet poll asked what our country should do about Putin and the crisis going on in Russia. 43.54% said we should do nothing and let them deal with this on their own. 30.88% said we should distance ourselves from him. What do you think? Should we get involved and risk further tension or let it slide/mind our own business and not get involved?

An even more important question: what has our country done in order to prevent a scandal like this from happening in our own voting system? Can we do more to help other countries have fairer elections?