On September 11, 2023, the Chairman of the CEC of Russia, Ella Pamfilova, speaking at the Information Center, summed up the preliminary results of the election campaigns for the elections on a single voting day.
“On a single voting day, more than 4,200 election campaigns of various levels took place, more than 45 million voters took part in the voting. The average turnout is 43.5%, which is a very high figure in elections of a similar level, the highest turnout since 2017,” the head of the Central Election Commission said. − More than 99 thousand protocols have already been introduced, the counting of votes has been completed in most elections. Almost 33 thousand candidates from 13 parties have been elected.”
According to the results of voting in the by – elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the eighth convocation , the leaders:
Karachay-Cherkess Republic – Soltan Uzdenov, UNITED RUSSIA (71,16%)
Republic of Crimea – Yuri Nesterenko, UNITED RUSSIA (68.71%)
Krasnoyarsk Territory – Sergey Eremin, UNITED RUSSIA (57.54%)
Lipetsk Region – Dmitry Averov, UNITED RUSSIA (58.84%)
In just three days of voting, the CEC of Russia received 936 appeals, of which 446 messages contained information about potential violations.
The final results of voting in the by-elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the eighth convocation will be announced at a meeting of the CEC of Russia on September 13.
International experts noted the transparency and openness of the elections
As part of the work of the Information Center of the Central Election Commission, the Chairman of the CEC of Russia Ella Pamfilova met with international experts who observed the elections in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
“Thank you so much for the fact that, despite all the anti-Russian atmosphere that exists in the West in many countries, despite the pressure and pressure, you were not afraid of anything. You are very brave people. The truth is important for you, the desire not to succumb to manipulation, to see everything with your own eyes, to communicate with real people, to understand their pain, their feelings, their fate, as high-class specialists in the electoral sphere, to draw conclusions about this frankly and objectively. We admire your bravery, your courage and thank you very much,” Ella Pamfilova said.
The Chairman of the CEC of Russia invited international experts to participate in the observation of the presidential elections of the Russian Federation in March 2024, as well as the international conference on electoral processes and challenges timed to them.
On a single day of voting, 33 foreign experts from 21 countries monitored the elections on the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. They noted the observance of all electoral law standards, their transparency and openness, as well as high voter turnout and their free will.
Ella Pamfilova, Deputy Chairman of the CEC of Russia Nikolay Bulaev and Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatiana Moskalkova took part in the session “Protection of Voters’ Rights”.
“We are actively cooperating with the CEC of Russia within the framework of the agreement, and this has significantly expanded our capabilities to monitor and implement guarantees of electoral rights,” Tatiana Moskalkova said. “Today, both the Commissioner for Human Rights at the federal level and the commissioners in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation are involved in all forms of surveillance.”
Ella Pamfilova appealed to Tatiana Moskalkova with a request to develop a mechanism to counter cases of the use of administrative resources to pressure voters. She noted that the most difficult moments in identifying violations are the use of administrative resources and it is necessary to think about how to more effectively identify such cases in order to prevent abuse from anyone’s side.
“The Commissioner for Human Rights and the commissioners in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation keep their finger on the pulse. And our relationship system is very important. It allows us to formulate problems today and find solutions to them. One of them is a long work on the implementation of voting in the pre−trial detention center,” Nikolai Bulaev said.
The discussion “Youth and Elections” was attended by members of the CEC of Russia Lyudmila Markina and Andrey Shutov, head of the RCOIT at the CEC of Russia Elena Osipova, adviser to the head of Rosmolodezh Egor Litvinenko.
Lyudmila Markina reported that out of 67 million voters who could take part in a single voting day, one in four voters under the age of 35. At the same time, 1.3 million young voters can take part in the elections this year for the first time.
Andrey Shutov noted that the projects of the CEC of Russia intended for young people, including “Sofium” and “Atmosphere”, are focused on providing synthetic knowledge that will help form a broad outlook among young people who will come to the electoral system.
During the session “Attempts to interfere in elections: external threats and information security”, views were exchanged by member of the CEC of Russia Igor Borisov, Senator of the Russian Federation Andrey Klimov, deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vasily Piskarev, Head of the Department of Control and Supervision in the field of electronic communications of Roskomnadzor Evgeny Zaitsev, Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly – Head of the Secretariat Parliamentary Assembly of the CSTO Sergey Pospelov.
“Our electoral system continues to be subjected to serious attacks from abroad, attempts of the most severe pressure and external interference,” Igor Borisov said. – The arsenal of influence is very wide – from attempts to hack digital services, direct provocations to distortion of facts with mass dissemination of false information and direct intimidation of voters and election organizers.”
Igor Borisov said that since the beginning of the three-day voting, about 30 thousand attacks on remote electronic voting resources have been blocked and prevented, the bulk of which fell on the website vybory.gov.ru . The flow of attacks does not stop.
Andrey Klimov noted that the number of fakes in the elections has increased in astronomical proportions, but there is nothing behind them.
“Despite attempts to split the state society, the stability of the political system is only getting stronger. And this is one of the main results that the current elections confirm,” the senator said.
A source: https://e-cis.info/news/567/111972/
