Democracy in action?

This past Sunday Ukraine participated in parliamentary elections. The elections, these and ones in the past seem to be frail led with fraud. The whole election campaign has raised many questions in my very confused un-political head, and these are some of the answers I got. Ukrainian politics are fraudulent, much like politics anywhere else. They are filled with corruption and this corruption apparently has gotten worse. The orange revolution, as it turns out happened not because corruption became evident but because it reached a certain level of ridiculousness. corruption became so open and wide-spread, elections so fraud that people got angry. Elections were recounted and overturned, but yushchenko who became president effed-up and failed to do anything useful, so he lost the next election to the very guy over whom the orange revolution happened in the first place. Since president yanukovich has been president, the country has reverted back to corrupt ways. The president and his posse suddenly own large chunks of historic land, this land is used to build mansions. The opposition is angrily and severely persecuted: as in the example of yuliya timoschenko who was tried and convicted for some bogus crime. People are dying for random reasons. The year the economic crisis devastated Europe and specifically eastern Europe, there were several new millionaires reported in Ukraine. How? It's unclear. But the president's entourage, his party and supporters benefit from large sums of money, investments, real estate, and most importantly, cover from doing things outside the law. So the election. The party of regions, president's party is the main contender, opposed by various democratic parties, collectively known as the opposition. No one seems to be voting for the party of regions. And yet, somehow, its votes are growing. Several widely known facts: regional centers, small towns and villages, collectively vote for the presidential party, while having a terribly high voter turn-out. How? The mayor or governor of the region acquires a bribe and essentially guarantees votes by ordering the villagers to vote for the presidential party. Things get fixed quickly in return for votes, as the local official suddenly has money to build some personal property. Before the elections buses appear on Kiev streets. These buses bring people for temporary residence in Kiev for elections. Meaning, you are allowed to vote in your current physical location, so the presidential party literally fills buses with random students, ships them to the city, after buying dorm space, these people are housed in local university dorms and here they get to vote for the presidential party to ensure the right person ends up in the congress seat. Retirees we're approached on the street and given food packages in return for votes; election representatives would show up at your house and offer to pay money in exchange for your vote. The military apparently votes for the presidential party, these are direct orders, which you cannot disobey. The higher ranking officers are required to vote for the presidential candidates and take a cincture of your "correct" vote with your phone, if you don't, you risk losing your job. Which is a commodity. The night of the elections, exit polls showed that party of the regions was ahead. Not a majority ahead, but ahead. Tere was no official report as to the voter turn-out, despite the constitutional law that requires an official report before midnight. The votes are still being counted... The morning after, the presidential party has a oajority, while the opposition parties are not gaining votes and if anything, some have lost votes from reported exit polls percentages. If you add up the totals, they now exceed 100%. Im not a math person, but I'm pretty sure thats impossible. There are pictures of large stacks of ballots dumped into voting baskets, votes unclear. Voting committees have left counting randomly, as they pleased, without clear explanation as to why. The parliament will be filled with majority candidates from the presidential party, that is to the question. But how much cheating will happen before final numbers are in remains to be determined.