More than 3 million citizens of the Russian Federation used the Mobile Voter service on the State Services portal. This was reported by RIA NewsReferring to the Russian Ministry of Digital Development.
The service allows you to vote in presidential elections at your convenience rather than at your registration address.
Voters mostly voted in Moscow, St. He preferred polling stations in St. Petersburg, Moscow region, Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk regions, Leningrad and Samara regions, Tatarstan, as well as in the Irkutsk and Sverdlovsk regions. Applications can be made until March 11, 23:59 Moscow time.
Russians also have the opportunity to vote online using the remote electronic voting (DEG) platform. The deadline for accepting applications is the same.
Muscovites can vote on the regional portal. They do not need to apply.
Before reportedAlmost half of Russian citizens participated in early voting.
The Federation Council planned presidential elections in Russia to be held on March 15, 16 and 17. The sites will be open between 08:00 – 20:00 on all these days. Online voting can be done from 08:00 on March 15 to 20:00 on March 17.
For the first time since 2008, four candidates will compete for the presidency: Vladislav Davankov (New People’s Party), Vladimir Putin (nominating his own candidate), Leonid Slutsky (LDPR) and Nikolai Kharitonov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation).
If current Russian President Putin wins the upcoming elections, it will be his fifth presidential term.
Previously Pamfilova said About attempts to discredit the presidential election with the support of the CIA and Mi-6.