I wrote, "...Russia reporting 98% voting in favor..."
Typically, "voting in favor" of something requires one to actually vote. It's amazing that you don't understand this.
Actually that sentence implies that 98% of the region voted in favor of Russia. This is incorrect, and it is shameful that you initially phrased it that way and did not point out that it is 98% of people who voted.
It is also easy to see that 98% of received votes voting for something is not particularly rare, as opposed to your appeal to absurdity.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%2298+percent+voted%22On Morocco constitution - "Morocco says 98 percent voted 'yes' for new constitution - Al Arabiya"
On an Iraqui referendum - "While 97 percent of voters reportedly favored the constitution in Shiite Basra and 98 percent voted yes in the Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah, 97 percent of the approximately 100,000 Sunni voters in the city of Fallujah were opposed."
On a flight union vote - "less than 50 percent of the Delta flight attendants participated, so the union was not certified even though over 98 percent voted for AFA"
On a Venezuela referendum - "Total number of voters in Sunday's referendum, based on 95 percent of voting centers reporting. Of these, more than 98 percent voted in favor of"
On the Black woman vote - "Ninety-four percent of Black women voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election and 98 percent voted for Doug Jones in the"
etc., etc., etc.,
So it seems that your appeal to absurdity is actually based on your personal ignorance of voting and politics. 98% does regularly occur.