Unique in its kind e-voting system successfully passed a test run in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. Already on 25 June the system starts across the country for those who want to participate via online voting on amendments to the Constitution. In Moscow for two test days has received more than 77 165 inhabitants, and in Nizhny Novgorod 10 797. The turnout made up 10.81% of voters who decided to vote for amendments to the Constitution remotely. Test e-voting process goes smoothly.
we will Remind, with an initiative to conduct a short test run of the system for testing before the vote on the amendments to the Constitution were made by Alexey Venediktov, Deputy Chairman of the public chamber of Moscow, the curator of e-voting, and Ilya Massukh, head of the Public headquarters for observing the voting. Testing was designed to identify both technical and organizational gaps in voting.
“We managed to give the load on the system, the system able to withstand peaks, and the night shift, she was off for almost 48 hours, and in this regard the test was successful. Those bugs that were caught, invisible for users, but technical experts is very helpful to from 25 to 30 the number system worked absolutely normal”, – said Ilya massukh, summing up the results of the test on Friday night.
how was preparing to hack the system, and told Alexei Venediktov:
“We’re really encouraged hackers to try to hack the system. We consulted the Ministry of justice and other law enforcement agencies. Since this is a test vote, the attempted burglary is not a crime, we regard it as a technical control. Even created a prize pool of two million rubles. We have a technical group inside of the Public chamber came up with the game developers of World of Tanks. They threatened that breaks all their tanks. I said, “Well, break. Two million — good money. If you can””.
as a result, these 2 million remained to be spent. And part of the money will be transferred to the working group, which developed the system. And part of the money will be given to journalists who most wrote about electronic voting, and not even necessarily positive publications.
Commenting on the test run of the electronic voting system, the General Director of “Agency of political and economic communications” Dmitry Orlov noted the high interest of Muscovites to this event and the demand for new format the audience, accustomed to using social networks, messengers and other new technologies.
“Before the country’s leadership has a vital role to convince the Russians that the secret of the results of the electronic vote will be guaranteed, and ��that any intervention into it will not happen. If the results of the vote of July 1, around e-electoral process will form a space of trust, the use of this procedure will gradually expand,” said Orlov. (https://www.m24.ru/news/obshchestvo/19062020/122376)
the Modern technological solutions applied in the electronic voting system allows to take into account the voices of citizens who are not only in another city, but even in space. So, your request for remote participation in the voting have filed the cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, located on the International space station.
“we Have an astronaut with the Moscow residence permit – Anatoly Ivanishin. He is now in orbit and has requested the opportunity to vote online for amendments to the Constitution. We have considered this option, it is possible. But the connection goes through Houston. So we brought in as an observer Dmitry Rogozin, who should contact NASA,” he told the official website of the Public headquarters for control over the vote, Alexei Venediktov. (https://shtab.opmoscow.ru/tpost/fplxx63m5g-kosmonavt-anatolii-ivanishin-progolosuet)
Recall that at this time, to vote remotely people from only two Russian regions — Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod region. In the future, experts say, this practice will be expanded. So, the political scientist Pavel Danilin is sure that electronic voting can substantially increase voter turnout, has several degrees of protection, and should be widely disseminated to such election procedure as the election of deputies of the state Duma and the President. (https://www.metronews.ru/novosti/russia/reviews/politolog-pavel-danilin-elektronnoe-golosovanie-dolzhno-primenyatsya-ko-vsem-izbiratelnym-proceduram-1683693/).
