Pamfilova spoke about buses equipped for voting – Kommersant

Chairman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova spoke about the rules for equipping buses for voting during elections. The law, she said, gives the right to create “additional opportunities for the implementation of citizens’ voting rights.”

We have very strict requirements for such mobile voting points, and they must be provided with everything necessary. We tried this at the last campaign in the Unified Voting Day (Kommersant), and people who had difficulty getting to the polling station – their legs hurt or the bus rarely runs – were grateful when our commission members came to them,” said Mrs. Pamfilova in an interview TASS.

She added that mobile voting points should have a portable contact screen, folding table and chairs. The presence of observers and “everything necessary to ensure free expression of will and secrecy of voting” was called by the CEC chairperson an indispensable condition.

When asked whether the decision to equip voting buses would become an object of criticism from Russian citizens in other countries, Ella Pamfilova said that “that’s their job – to throw mud at Russia.” According to her, the efforts of Western countries to discredit the Russian elections are of negligible importance for the country.

Presidential elections will be held March 15–17, 2024. The candidates currently nominated are Leonid Slutsky (LDPR), Nikolai Kharitonov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), Vladislav Davankov (New People). On December 20, the Central Election Commission registered an initiative group to nominate Vladimir Putin as a candidate.

Details – in the material “Kommersant” “Personnel decided almost everything”.

Petr Buzlaev