#MOSCOW, March 16. 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.

#MOSCOW, March 15. The incumbent Russian leader, #Vladimir #Putin, who is vying for the country’s top office as an independent candidate, has cast his electronic vote in the presidential election.

The published video footage shows Putin walking to a computer in his office, casting his vote and then smiling and waving at the camera. The computer monitor displayed a standard notification for a successfully cast vote.

This is not the first time the president used this voting method. In the last few years, Putin cast his vote online during the autumn single election day. This is the first time online voting is available during presidential elections, (it is currently available in approximately one third of all regions of #Russia).