Online voter turnout in presidential election reach 90%

Online voter turnout in Russia’s presidential election on the federal platform has reached 90%, according to the portal on online vote monitoring.

As of 9:27 p.m. Moscow time (6:27 p.m. GMT), as many as 4,268,291 ballots were issued to voters in 28 Russian regions, who had applied for voting online. Thus, voter turnout on the federal platform of electronic voting was 90%.

Residents of Moscow can vote on Moscow’s own platform and were not required to apply for remote voting beforehand.

The Federation Council, the upper house of Russia’s parliament, officially designated March 17, 2024, as the day of the presidential election. The Central Election Commission (CEC) then announced that voting would take place over three days on March 15-17.

Four candidates are vying for the top office, namely New People party nominee Vladislav Davankov; self-nominated candidate and incumbent President Vladimir Putin; Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) nominee Leonid Slutsky; and Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) nominee Nikolay Kharitonov. (TASS)