The «Mobile voter» system, which allows citizens to vote at their actual location, will also work in elections in the Kherson region, for this you need to apply in advance at one of the two territorial election commissions or one of the five branches of the MFC, the chairman told reporters Kherson Regional Election Commission Marina Zakharova.
In the Kherson region, as in other new Russian regions, residents will elect deputies to local legislative assemblies, which will then vote to elect the heads of subjects.
«We will have two territorial commissions, these are Skadovsk and Genichesk, where any citizen of the Kheros region can come and write an application to be attached to another polling station. Also, the election commission, by agreement with the MFC, according to which in five branches of the MFC submit the same application. These are: Skadovsk, Genichesk, Kolonchak, Novotroitskoye and Chaplynka,» Zakharova said. According to her, this procedure will be available from August 20 to September 4.
«At this time, any voter can come to any of these offices and receive an absentee ballot. I would like to note that for all the time, only once you can leave such a statement to be excluded from the lists of one election commission and attached to another,» she added. Zakharov.
She added that the residents of the Kherson region, who are outside of it. can cast their vote only for candidates for deputies of the Kherson Regional Duma. «Such voters cannot vote for candidates of local councils, because, according to the law of the Russian Federation, such citizens lose their active right to vote in relation to candidates of their district,» the head of the regional election commission said.
Elections in Russia will be held on a single voting day on September 10, 2023. The Central Election Commission reported that elections of senior officials in 20 constituent entities of the Russian Federation and additional elections of State Duma deputies for four vacant seats in single-mandate constituencies are planned in the EDG. Elections are scheduled in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.