Russia Elections 2024: Putin votes online on first day of Russian presidential election
Vladimir Putin electronically submitted his vote in the presidential elections on the first day of Presidential elections, the state media TASS said. The Kremlin released video footage depicting Putin walking to a computer in his office, voting, and subsequently smiling and waving at the camera. A message displayed on the computer screen confirmed the successful casting of his vote.
The ongoing polling to elect the Russian President marks the first time that online voting has been made available, according to TASS report. More than 3.5 million people cast their vote online on the first day of the presidential election across Russia, TASS reported, citing the e-voting monitoring portal. As of 7:28 pm (local time), as many as 3,500,331 ballots were issued to voters in 28 Russian regions, who had applied for voting online.
The federal platform of electronic voting recorded a 73 per cent voter turnout on the first day, TASS reported. As many as 4.76 million people in Russia planned to cast votes on the federal platform, the state agency reported, adding that people in Moscow could vote on the city's own platform and were not required to apply for remote voting prior to the polls. More than 180 election experts from 58 countries are overseeing the Russian presidential election.
They are witnessing the elections at the invitation of the Russian Civic Chamber's (CC) invitation, the CC said in a statement on the Telegram channel, TASS reported. "At the invitation of the Russian Civic Chamber, 185 foreign election experts from 58 countries came to Russia to independently conduct public observation," the statement read. The message was displayed during the 24-hour online stream of the CC election observing situation centre,
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