MOSCOW, 17 Sep. About 250 thousand people have already taken part in electronic voting, this is 12% of the declared, said the head of the public headquarters for observing the elections in Moscow Alexei Venediktov. You can participate in the process remotely in the capital region, as well as in Sevastopol, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Murmansk and Rostov regions. To do this, it was necessary to register in advance. The elections are held from 17 to 19 September, from 08:00 to 20:00 every day. In total, more than 4.4 thousand campaigns at all levels in all 85 regions have been appointed, over 31 thousand mandates will be substituted for them. Citizens will have to determine the new composition of the State Duma. The lower house of parliament is elected for five years according to a mixed system: 225 deputies — according to party lists, another 225 — in single-mandate constituencies in one round. June 18, 14:29 Infographics State Duma elections 2021 There will also be municipal elections. 23 political parties have passed the registration stage and have nominated nearly 74,000 CEC-approved candidates. Parliamentary parties are in the lead in terms of the number of registered candidates. Of the non-parliamentary, the most active are the «Party of Pensioners» and «Communists of Russia.» «,» Yabloko «, Party of Growth, Russian Party of Freedom and Justice,» Communists of Russia «,» Civil Platform «,» Green Alternative «,» Motherland «and the Party of Pensioners. «We need a strong parliament»: Vladimir Putin addressed the Russians