Originally Posted by it-ogo
Well, OK, I understand, you have no experience in voting during foreign military occupation. But at least you can try to think about the following questions.
1) Now there are 15% of Crimean Tatars in Crimea. They are the only native Crimean ethnos. After WWII ALL of them (the whole ethnos) were brought away from Crimea with many casualities and without possessions to elsewhere (mainly to the Central Asia) by Russian (Soviet) militaries (nowadays it is called "ethnic cleaning"). The survivors came back recently and up to now they many times showed their position as anti-Russian and pro-Ukrainian and were very active in public actions etc. Namely just before invasion and after the runaway of Yanukovich they were making intensive anti-Russian mass protests. Now the question: why are they so quiet now and how exactly in your opinion they are distributed among those official voters? If they voted for joining Russia why exactly they are so happy to do it, and if they didn't come to vote, why exactly, and why exactly all other population came about 100%?
2) In the elections before the invasion the pro-russian party of contemporary Crimean "government" gained 3% of votes. What exactly made other 92% of population change their opinion so drastically? (If you say it is the revolution against Yanukovich, remember that the similar revolution in 2004 didn't cause such an effect).