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The Constitutional Amendment System on Saturday was attacked by hackers, and Mosvodokanal’s management was asked to stop monitoring the employees ’voting process. This and other news is in the BBC review of the constitutional vote over the weekend.
Hackers attacked voting site
The system of electronic voting on constitutional amendments on Saturday, June 27, was attacked by a hacker, but the system didn’t fail, the head of the department for improving the territorial administration and developing smart projects of the capital’s government, Artem Kostyrko, told TASS.
“At 21:12 Moscow time, an attempt was made to attack the blockchain through the observer’s node. At present, an enhanced security mode has been introduced,” he said. According to him, there was no failure in the voting process and all votes will be recorded.
Access to the online voting observer service was later restored. “Information security experts are replacing all security tokens in all subsystems. All votes of the remote voting participants have been delivered and counted,” Kostyrko said.
On June 25, the site where the electronic voting takes place failed because of a heavy load. On Friday, June 26, the CEC announced a DDoS attack on this site ..
“Mosvodokanal” is asked to cease to control the voting of employees
Observer headquarters on Saturday recommended the leadership of Mosvodokanal OJSC to cease to control the voting process of employees on amendments to the Constitution, Ilya Massukh, head of the public headquarters for monitoring and voting in Moscow, told reporters.
The fact that the employees of Mosvodokanal, as well as “all subordinate institutions of the Moscow housing and communal services department”, are urged to take part in the electronic vote on amendments, the BBC Russian Service wrote on June 18. A week later, a video appeared on social networks in which company employees stand in line for voting in the presence of the team leaders.
“Yesterday there was a story with Mosvodokanal when employees were brought to the vote,” Massuh said on Saturday. “This is not a violation, it is providing a convenient vote for our employees. But today we received a signal from one of the citizens about intrusive coercion to vote with reporting the parsing team took control. ”
He promised to strongly recommend the deputy director of Mosvodokanal “to give the local command to stop all control over the voting process of its employees.”
CEC: almost 30% of voters voted in three days
According to amendments to the Constitution, 30.9 million people have now voted, which is 28.5% of the number of voters registered in Russia, said the head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, her words quoted by Interfax. This figure also includes those voting online.
According to her, the highest turnout was recorded in Tuva (41.98%) and in the Tambov region (31.54%), and the lowest – in the Khabarovsk Territory (22.45%). Pamfilova said that 39% voted outdoors, or at home, at check-out and in the adjoining territories.
In the Vologda Oblast, a TEC member tried to vote twice
In the Vologda Oblast, the fact of voting twice was revealed, Interfax writes with reference to the press service of the regional election commission.
According to her, on June 26 at one of the polling stations in Vologda, the polling participant, having received the ballot, voted in the premises of her precinct, and after some time, without notifying the members of the commission about her voting, she also voted in the local territory. Members of the commission revealed this promptly, the election commission said.
The election commission added that the woman who tried to vote twice was a member of the TEC of the Vologda region from the Communist Party. They called the incident “clearly planned provocation.”
The chairman of the regional election commission, Denis Zaitsev, reported the incident to the CEC and asked the police to conduct an audit. Such a violation in the absence of grounds for criminal prosecution shall be punishable by a fine of 30 thousand rubles under Art. 5.22 Administrative Code.
Turnout at online voting – 80%
The turnout for remote electronic voting on amendments to the Constitution reached 80%, more than 938.2 thousand people voted, it follows from the data on the information screens in the operational headquarters for monitoring the voting referenced by TASS.
Residents of Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod Region take part in the online voting. It will end on June 30 at 20:00 Moscow time.
In total, about 1 million Muscovites and almost 140 thousand Nizhny Novgorod submitted applications to participate in online voting, the operational headquarters said.
VTsIOM: 76% of Russians voted for amendments
According to an anonymous VTsIOM poll, 76% of Russians who voted in favor of changes to the Constitution. 23.6% voted against, follows from the survey.
Exit poll data are for the period from June 25 to 28. The survey was conducted among voters in 800 polling stations in 25 regions.
By Sunday evening, June 28, 163 124 people took part in the survey. Of these, 70.6% answered the question asked, and 29.4% refused to answer.
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