ANNUNCIATION, 17 SEP. The Governor of the Amur Region Vasily Orlov voted in the elections; he came to the polling station with his wife.
“… My wife and I also came to the polling station and voted, at the same time looked at how sanitary standards are being observed. The commissions took into account the experience of last year's voting.
The regional government clarifies that the governor voted at the polling station organized at school No. 5; a total of 750 polling stations were opened in the region on Friday at 02.00 Moscow time, including 17 temporary ones: at the airport, in a pre-trial detention center, in hospitals and in shift workers' settlements. in the Duma and other elections will be held from 17 to 19 September. The State Duma is elected for five years by a mixed electoral system: 225 deputies — according to party lists, another 225 — in single-mandate constituencies in one round.
Residents of Vladivostok actively go to the polls, despite the rain and early morning.In addition to the Duma in the Amur region, elections of deputies of the legislative assembly and 67 more municipal campaigns will be held. For example, in Belogorsk, the second most populous city in the Amur Region, voters receive six ballots each, and here they will elect a new composition of the city council of people's deputies. who live and work in hard-to-reach settlements. Early voting ballots are stored in sealed portable boxes and will be processed during the general vote count — September 19.