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Putin's party, United Russia, is on track to claim 343 of the 450 seats in the country's lower house of parliament.

The three runners-up, the Communist Party, The Liberal Democrats and the Just Russia Party, all support Putin.

Yet the Russian strongman's decisive election success has been walloped by claims of electoral fraud.

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Footage from a polling station in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don shows three people lurking by the ballot box.

It soon becomes clear that they're obstructing the view while a woman behind them spends more than 20 seconds stuffing in votes.

The brazen woman, seemingly part of the polling station staff, only packs it in when others show up to cast their ballots.

Video from another location, partially obscured by a Russian flag, seems to show the same thing happening again.

Golos, the independent election Watchdog, said it received a stonking 1,500 reports about various violations.

Complaints about ballot stuffing were among the most common, according to news site the Moscow Times.

Most reports came in from the capital, the surrounding area, and the southern city of Stavropol.

Voters at two polling stations were even handed voting papers with one party's name crossed off, reports claim.

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Locals in the Crimean city of Sevastopol and a village in the Krasnodar region said PARNAS had been crossed off the ballot.

PARNAS, or the People's Freedom Party, was once banned in Russia and its co-chair Boris Nemtsov was shot dead near the Kremlin last year.

His colleague Mikhail Kasyanov was exposed in bed with British-Russian playwright Natalia Pelevine by a pro-Putin TV station.

Local Golos coordinator David Kankiya told the Interfax news agency that votes from both stations could be cancelled.

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However Roman Udot, co-chair of Golos, told the BBC that his watchdog was powerless to stop the frauds.

He said: “We don’t have any way to fight it through law enforcement or courts, but we fight by attracting public attention."

Russia's Interior Ministry has now confirmed reports of ballot stuffing at two polling stations in Rostov-on-Don.

Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Sergey Yusov, said results from affected stations could be invalidated.