On the sidelines, I also note that those who viewed the Orange Revolution as another colour-coded fake revolution, argued that the exit poll was commissioned by Western-paid NGOs and constituted the sole evidence, what's more, earlier something like that happened in Venezuela, too: the Venezuelan opposition posting ill-sampled exit polls as proof of a Chávezista election fraud with the US-imported (but not Diebold) electronic voting machines.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}