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MOSCOW, March 16 /TASS/. Some 200,000 Muscovites voted on the Internet in Russia's presidential election over the past 12 hours, with no violations of rules recorded during the voting, Vadim Kovalev, head of Moscow's public election monitoring center, said on Saturday. No violations were recorded at polling stations overnight.
Video: Here you can see the electronic ballot boxes that record individual votes from voters who have requested a special code on their social security number to vote electronically in the presidential election. The voted electronic ballots are entered into an electronic list on a computer, and once the designated number of votes are recorded, a list of voters with individual codes is printed, and this printed list is then dropped into the ballot boxes you see in the video.
Some 200,000 people voted online overnight: from 20:00 Moscow time (17:00 CET) to 8:00 Moscow time (05:00 CET), Kovalev reported. The Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, officially set 17 March 2024 as the date for the presidential election. The Central Election Commission (CEC) then announced that voting would take place over three days, 15-17 March. There are four candidates vying for the top office, namely party candidates:
🔹 New people: Vladislav Davankov
🔹 Candidate for himself and the current president: Vladimir Putin
🔹 Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR): Leonid Slutsky
🔹 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF): Nikolai Kharitonov
The picture shows observers of political parties during monitoring. They can find any polling station on the screens, find out about any suspected election disturbances, report these disturbances and contact their political party's observer directly at the place of the disturbance for coordination.
Pictured are forms for recording various types of disturbances at the observation center of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
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