To carry out remote voting over the amendments to the Constitution in the context of the epidemic COVID-19 will be only three or four regions. In other, probably pass outdoors.
The CPS and the CEC agreed on recommendations for the vote on the amendments to the Constitution in the context of pandemic coronavirus. According to RBC with reference to the relevant document, it is planned to equip the site for voting outdoors — on porches, under canopies and awnings in buildings, which usually are the electoral Commission. Will be provided with a sanitary bathroom with water, soap and disposable towels, and a separate room for voting those who have the temperature at the entrance to the site would be higher than normal.
Voting will advise you to come in masks and with his pen, but to show a passport, not passing into the hands of the members of the Commission, said the material. The voting booths will not be the front blinds. To comply with social distance will apply a special markup.
Separate voting rules provided for those who are required to observe quarantine.
“They would be sent to a special place to vote,” writes RBC.
Patients with confirmed COVID-19 vote will come to the house: employees of the electoral Commission in the hazmat suits will have to wait in the stairwell until a citizen vote.
In order to avoid the massive crowds and queues propose to extend voting for a few days.
Previously as “safe” from an epidemiological point of view voting method called remote format. However, as stated by the CEC Chairman, Ella Pamfilova, this is possible only in three or four regions based on the technology previously used in Moscow.
In may, President Vladimir Putin approved a law allowing the use of remote electronic voting in elections at all levels. The President of holding “Minchenko consulting”, the political scientist Yevgeny Minchenko in the air NSN appreciated innovations.
“In my opinion, among the progressive measures – the collection of signatures through the portal of “public Services”. Of course, there may be technical problems, but you have to seriously attend to in order to solve this problem. Don’t start nothing and will not” – said the expert.
However, to convince the Russians that the falsification of electronic remote voting is impossible or it is minimized, it can only be a demonstration of control measures, he added.
According to the latest Polls and the Center for political conjuncture, 51% of Russians ready to vote for amendments to the Constitution in an online format. Thus, 46% of respondents say that they would not have to use the opportunity.
The vote on the Constitution was scheduled for April 22, but the President of Russia VLA��imir Putin has postponed it indefinitely because of the pandemic coronavirus. There has been speculation that the vote may pass on June 24, the same day as the Victory parade. However, by the end of may, it became clear that a nationwide vote will take place later. The media referred to the two possible dates of 1 and 8 July. The Kremlin argue that the date had not yet been determined.
The Director of the Institute of political studies Sergei Markov in an interview with NSN said that the General mood of the Russians to the enactment of the amendments against the background of the pandemic consistently with a social orientation. Support amendments giving President Vladimir Putin the right to be elected for a new term, depends on the rating of the head of state, and he consistently high, believes the analyst.
