Ninety-five percent of the votes cast recorded a yes, though turnout was only at fifty-six percent.
Many Crimeans considered the outcome fixed and so didn't bother trying to vote against it.
Witnesses also tell us that pro Russian militias were stationed inside of many polling stations.
The vote has been called illegal by Ukraine and much of the international community.
However, with as many as fifty thousand Russian troops, in Crimea, there's little that can be done to keep the vote from counting.
Russia is finally admitting that it is their troops in Crimea, though they are staying a much lower number than has been witnessed.
Their acknowledgement comes after Russian forces went north of Crimea and seized the village of Strilkove for a time, on Saturday.
The Russian troops eventually withdrew from most of the village, but set up shop around and inside the village's natural gas production buildings.
Ukrainian troops have since made entrenchments and other defense inside the village to block any further Russian incursions.
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