Votes

For the process of ballot-casting, see Vote.

Votes are people of Votia in Ingria (part of modern day northwestern Russia, roughly (south)west of St.Petersburg, near, and east of the Estonian border-town of Narva). Their own ethnic name is Vadjalain (plural: Vadjalaizőt). The Finno-Ugric Votic language spoken by Votes is close to Extinction.

As a distinct People, Votes have become practically extinct after Stalinist dispersion to Soviet provinces far away — as punishment for alleged disloyalty and cowardice during the war. In 1989 there were still 62 known Votes left, the youngest of whom was born in 1930.