MOSCOW, 17 Sep. Russia's experience in organizing electronic voting in elections to the State Duma is worthy of being applied in other countries, said Arman Kozhakhmetov, coordinator of the group of international observers from the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, chairman of the committee of the lower house of the parliament of Kazakhstan on legislation and judicial and legal reform. that there is a dynamic development in Russia, including in the development of digital technologies. It is worthy to study this example and apply it in our countries, «Kozhakhmetov said during the monitoring of the electoral situation in the public headquarters for election observation in Moscow, deployed at site of the Expocentre.
Political analysts assessed the turnout in the elections to the State Duma on the first day of voting Earlier, at a meeting with the head of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova, Kozhakhmetov said that fair and transparent elections to the State Duma are expected in the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly. «Polling stations have been deployed abroad — 348 polling stations in 144 countries. The CEC annually improves electoral legislation, introduces new progressive forms that enable citizens to remotely exercise their right to choose, register. Currently, this experiment is underway in seven regions, and already more than 2 million citizens — 2 million 650 thousand citizens — took advantage of this opportunity and registered in the electronic system and have the opportunity to vote remotely from September 17 to September 19, «said Kozhakhmetov, quoted by the CSTO PA channel in Telegram. According to an observer from the CSTO PA,» information systems are very reliable, do not allow any outside interference. » At the same time, according to him, the CEC is doing a lot to prevent the facts of illegal activity, when citizens can vote twice. Voting in the Duma and other elections on a single voting day takes place this year from 17 to 19 September. The State Duma is elected for five years by a mixed electoral system: 225 deputies are elected according to party lists, another 225 — in single-mandate constituencies in one round. Earlier, the chairman of the CEC Ella Pamfilova said that using remote electronic voting they had already voted in six regions (not counting Moscow). on average 35-50% of voters who signed up for it. In the Russian capital, about 2 million voters signed up for online voting, in the remaining six regions — about 600 thousand observers, she explained.
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