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About 96% Crimeans voted for reunification with Russia

Total of three-fourths of protocols from referendum processed

SIMFEROPOL, March 17. /ITAR-TASS/. Upon the results of processing of 75% protocols from the polling stations after Sunday’s referendum on the future of Crimea, the percentage of voters who supported Crimea’s reunification with Russia stands at 95.7%, Mikhail Malyshev, the chief of the Crimean legislature commission in charge of the referendum told reporters early morning Monday. 

He said that another 3.2% voters had preferred the continuation of Crimea’s stay within Ukraine and 1.1% ballots had been invalidated.