The hiring of a voting observer corps for the Moscow City Duma elections was announced by the Moscow State Election Monitoring Centre at its first meeting on July 30, the press service of the headquarters reported.
“Over the years of work of the Headquarters in the capital, a Moscow standard for monitoring the voting process has been developed. It consists not only of all the units traditionally included in the structure of the Public Headquarters, but, first of all, of observers at each polling station and video observers at the Headquarters.”said one of the leaders of the Public Headquarters, Vadim Kovalev.
At the meeting it was also promised that everyone would be able to observe the progress of electronic voting.
According to Artem Kostyrko, head of the Moscow Government’s department for improving territorial management and developing smart projects, everyone will have opportunities for different depths of observation. For example, a special Internet portal containing statistics and graphs on the progress of voting will be available for ordinary users, and advanced users will be able to adjust the depth of information display, as well as the ability to view the voting data. “create your own surveillance software tools”.
In addition, the chairwoman of the Moscow City Election Commission, Olga Kirillova, noted that this year there will be three ways to participate in the vote. According to her, voters will be able to use both traditional paper ballots and vote using electronic voting terminals or online means.
We would like to remind you that this year the public organization will monitor the election campaign and voting on September 6-8 in the elections of deputies to the Moscow City Duma of the VIII convocation, as well as municipal deputies in eight municipal districts of the TiNAO and in the Kurkino municipal district.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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