Anyone who wants to vote early in the elections must write an application. CEC: Early voting in Russia takes place without violations. What if I got sick on voting day?

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What Russians will choose on a single voting day

In Komi, Tyva, Chechnya, Trans-Baikal Territory, Tver, Tula and Ulyanovsk regions, elections for the head of the region will be held. Elections of deputies to legislative assemblies will be held in 39 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. A city mayor is elected in Kemerovo. Residents of 11 regions will elect municipal deputies. In addition, 149 local referendums will be held in 12 regions of the country, of which about 120 will be held in the Kirov region.

As of September 18, 5,314 election campaigns are ongoing in 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. A total of 102,126 candidates are vying for 39,553 seats at various levels. 43 parties and 2 public associations are taking part in the elections.

At what age can you vote? What documents are needed?

Russian citizens can vote in elections from the age of 18. On election day, you must come to your polling station with your passport. Those undergoing military service vote using their military ID, and sailors using their sailor’s passport.

How is the composition of the State Duma formed?

Elections to the State Duma are held using a mixed electoral system. Of the 450 deputies, 225 will be elected from party lists in a single federal district (proportional system), and another 225 from single-mandate districts (majoritarian system). It will be possible to vote for both the party list and candidates in the districts.

To get into the State Duma under the proportional system, parties need to overcome the 5% barrier. Candidates in constituencies only need to receive a relative majority of votes.

Elections to the State Duma will be recognized as valid with any turnout, since the turnout threshold has not been established.

Photo: RIA Novosti / Vasily Batanov

Which parties can participate in the elections?

Parties that received at least 3% of the votes in the last Duma elections, and those that are represented in at least one of the regional parliaments of the Russian Federation, are allowed to participate directly in the elections. Today these include: “United Russia”, “CPRF”, “A Just Russia”, LDPR, “Yabloko”, “Patriots of Russia”, “Party of Growth”, “PARNAS”, “Civil Platform”, “Communists of Russia” , “Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice”, “Motherland”, “Civil Power” and “Greens”.

These parties could put forward lists of candidates for the State Duma without collecting voter signatures.

The remaining parties had to collect at least 200,000 signatures in support of the nominated list (but no more than 7,000 signatures in one subject of the country). As of March 2016, 77 political parties are registered in Russia.

Photo: RIA Novosti / Evgeny Epanchintsev

Criteria that a candidate for deputy must satisfy

The candidate must meet the following criteria:

be at least 21 years of age;

permanently reside in Russia;

have Russian citizenship.

There are a number of restrictions on the nomination for deputies of those who have a criminal record for a number of crimes. You can read more about this, in particular, in the federal law on elections of State Duma deputies.

You can become a candidate through self-nomination (in this case, you need to collect a sufficient number of voter signatures and register with the election commission) and through the lists of a particular political party.

Day of silence. Operation of polling stations

On election day, polling stations will be open from 8:00 to 20:00 local time. At the same time, polling stations in which the working hours of the majority of voters coincide with voting time (for example, in the case of shift work) may be opened earlier, but not more than 2 hours.

All voting stations are equipped with electronic systems for processing ballot papers (ECPS). He scans the ballot, while the voter makes a choice in the usual way - by placing a tick or other mark next to the name or surname of a candidate or party. This year, almost all polling stations have electronic voting complexes (ECGs) that automatically count votes.

Polls of voters at the exit of a polling station (exit polls) are not prohibited by Russian law, but the publication of their results, as well as any sociological surveys or forecasts, is not allowed within five days before the elections and on voting day until the closing of the last polling station in the country. Thus, this year, data from public opinion polls on political preferences is prohibited from being published from September 13. The exit poll results can be made public from 21:00 Moscow time on September 18.

Observers and their rights

Polling station observers are representatives of parties or candidates who monitor the voting process and the counting of votes. A citizen of the Russian Federation who has active voting rights (that is, can be a voter) can become an observer. An observer cannot be a deputy, a member of the election commission, a judge, a prosecutor, or anyone who occupies the highest elected positions or is subordinate to such officials.

As of the evening of September 15, observers from 59 countries have been invited to the elections. 10 organizations sent observers. 757 international observers have been accredited.

There may be several observers from different parties at the polling station. Observers from other states or international organizations and accredited journalists may also be present at polling stations.

This year the rights of observers. The federal law enshrines their right to take photographs and videos in the voting premises. Previously, attempts to take photos or videos sometimes led to conflicts between observers and members of election commissions. In addition, it is effectively prohibited to remove observers from the voting premises: this now requires a court decision.

How to vote early or not in your city?

If a voter is away at the time of voting and cannot visit his polling station, he must obtain in advance from the election commission at his place of residence an absentee certificate that allows him to vote at his actual place of residence. It is issued by the territorial commission no earlier than 45 days and no later than 11 days before voting day, by the precinct commission starting 10 days before the elections. Absentee ballots will not be issued on election day.

Absentee certificates could be obtained at territorial election commissions from August 3 to September 6, and at precinct election commissions they could be obtained until September 17, 2016 inclusive.

Russian citizens who are abroad can vote at polling stations on the territory of Russian diplomatic missions or consular offices.

Those who are unable to come to a polling station for health reasons can contact their election commission within 10 days before voting, but no later than six hours before the polls close. If the commission recognizes the reason for non-appearance as valid (illness or disability), then election commission employees will be sent to the voter with blank ballots and a portable, sealed voting box.

The easternmost and northernmost polling stations in Russia have no permanent population. There is a border guard base on Ratmanov Island in the Bering Strait, and scientists from Arctic stations, meteorologists and border guards vote on Franz Josef Land.

About 120 polling stations are located on ships.

There are local election commissions on all continents. There are 11 of them in North America, 19 in Central and South America, 42 in Africa, and 10 in Australia and Oceania. The largest number of polling stations outside Russia are in Europe (139) and Asia (150).

Elections of deputies to the State Duma of the 7th convocation will be held throughout Russia on September 18, a single voting day. Read about how these elections differ from previous ones, how they will be held in Moscow, how many polling stations there will be, and who can vote early in the material from m24.ru.

Elections in numbers
14 parties were registered to participate in the elections. In total, more than 3 thousand candidates were nominated.
Moscow will be divided into 15 electoral districts.
In total, 3,631 voting stations will be opened in Moscow, 628 of them are equipped with complexes for processing ballot papers.
A total of 6.7 thousand cameras will be installed - two at each site.
According to preliminary estimates by the Russian Central Election Commission, almost 15 billion rubles will be required to finance the elections.
The number of voters in Moscow as of July 1, 2016 is 7,341,984 people.

How the 2016 elections are different The proportional system, when seats in parliament were distributed according to the number of votes received by parties, is no longer relevant. Elections of previous convocations took place on it. This year, elections will be held according to a mixed system: out of 450 deputies, 225 will be elected from party lists and a single federal district, and another 225 from single-mandate districts.

First of all, the return of single-mandate seats should increase political competition, as well as the responsibility of deputies to voters.

To get into the Duma, parties need to overcome the 5 percent barrier; candidates in the districts only need to receive a relative majority of votes.

Previously, a mixed system was used in the elections of 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2003. In 2007 and 2011, elections to the State Duma were held using a proportional electoral system.

The elections of State Duma deputies are organized by a new composition of the Central Election Commission, which does not include Vladimir Churov. He has served as chairman of the commission since 2007. The new composition was headed by Ella Pamfilova.

take your passport with you;
to write an application;
indicate the reason for early voting;
indicate your last name, first name, patronymic and place of residence.

Valid reasons for early voting include vacation, business trip, work and educational activities, performance of state and public duties, and health status. In addition, residents of remote and hard-to-reach areas of 33 regions of Russia can vote early.

First you need to present your passport, then they should find you on the list and ask you to sign next to your last name. You will then be given two ballot papers. The first is for an individual candidate for deputy, the second is for the party list.

On the ballot opposite the candidate/party for whom you are voting, you need to put a special mark, but only one. If there are several, the ballot will be considered invalid.

have Moscow registration;
be over 18 years of age;
don't forget your passport.

If you are registered in another district, you need to obtain an absentee certificate in advance from the election commission at your place of permanent registration.

From August 3 to September 6, absentee certificates will be issued by territorial election commissions, and from September 7 to September 17, by precinct election commissions. On election day, no one will issue absentee ballots.

You can find your polling station and check yourself on the voter list on the CEC website.

If you are abroad, you can vote at polling stations on the territory of Russian diplomatic missions or consular offices.

Public headquarters A public headquarters has been created in Moscow to monitor the State Duma elections. A website and video center have been launched to monitor voting progress in real time.

The headquarters was headed by the chairman of the commission for the development of civil society of the Public Chamber, editor-in-chief “ Echo of Moscow" Alexey Venediktov, his deputies were Member of the Public Chamber Vadim Kovalev and Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Alexey Shaposhnikov.

The video center has 20 workstations with computers for operators; each operator is assigned 170 polling stations. In shifts, the monitors display images from six areas, each of which has two cameras. There are a total of 12 cameras on the monitor; a special program has been created that turns the page after one minute. This time is enough to get acquainted with the situation at six sites. If any violation or technical failure is detected, the operator can, with one click of the cursor, enlarge the picture to full screen, pause it and see what’s there.

The full broadcast of the elections will be available on the website vybory.mos.ru

Mobile app The Moscow City Election Commission will launch a mobile application about the upcoming State Duma elections. It was developed on the basis of an electronic periodical "Bulletin of the Moscow City Election Commission".

Using the application, you can receive any information about election campaigns, find a polling station and check yourself on the lists.

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Based on such a short observation period, it is impossible to accurately determine the distance at which asteroid 2006 QV89 will approach Earth on 09/09/2019, since the asteroid has not been observed since then (since 2006). Moreover, according to various estimates, the object may approach our planet not on the 9th, but on another date in September 2019.

As for whether 2006 QV89 will collide with Earth on September 9, 2019 or not - the likelihood of a collision is extremely low.

Thus, the Sentry System (developed by the JPL Center for NEO Studies) shows that the probability of a body colliding with the Earth is 1:9100 (those. about one ten thousandth of a percent).

The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates the chance of an asteroid crossing its orbit with our planet as 1 in 7300 (0,00014 % ). ESA placed 2006 QV89 in 4th place among celestial bodies posing a potential danger to Earth. According to the agency, the exact time of “flight” of the body on September 9, 2019 is 10:03 Moscow time.

In both Orthodoxy and Catholicism, Easter always falls on Sunday.

Easter 2020 is preceded by Lent, which begins 48 days before the Holy Day. And after 50 days they celebrate Trinity.

Popular pre-Christian customs that have survived to this day include dyeing eggs, making Easter cakes and curd Easter cakes.

Easter treats are blessed in the church on Saturday, the eve of Easter 2020, or after the service on the day of the Holiday itself.

We should greet each other on Easter with the words “Christ is Risen,” and respond with “Truly He is Risen.”

This will be the fourth game for the Russian team in this qualifying tournament. Let us remind you that in the previous three meetings, Russia “at the start” lost to Belgium with a score of 1:3, and then won two dry victories - over Kazakhstan (4:0) and over San Marino (9:0). The last victory was the largest in the entire existence of the Russian football team.

As for the upcoming meeting, according to bookmakers, the Russian team is the favorite in it. The Cypriots are objectively weaker than the Russians, and the islanders cannot expect anything good from the upcoming match. However, we must take into account that the teams have never met before, and therefore unpleasant surprises may await us.

The Russia-Cyprus meeting will take place on June 11, 2019 In Nizhniy Novgorod at the stadium of the same name, built for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Start of the match - 21:45 Moscow time.

Where and what time do the national teams of Russia and Cyprus play:
* Venue of the match - Russia, Nizhny Novgorod.
* Game start time is 21:45 Moscow time.

Elections to the State Duma are scheduled for September 18, 2016. In total, the new State Duma will include 450 parliamentarians: 225 deputies will be elected from party lists, the rest from single-mandate constituencies.

Business Development Director of Clerk.Ru Stanislav Rachinsky explained to our readers why they need to come to the polling stations on Election Day.

I don’t believe in elections in Russia: the same parties always win. I have to go?

First of all, the winners are not always the same ones. In local elections in various regions of Russia, “those you thought of” lose not so rarely.

In addition, elections for half of the State Duma are held according to the proportional principle: this means that votes between parties are distributed in proportion to the votes cast for them, and therefore, unlike the more common elections under the majoritarian system, minority votes must also be taken into account (although There are some subtleties here, which we will talk about later).

Where should I vote?

The usual method of voting is voting at the place of residence (by “permanent registration”). Since the end of 2012, polling stations have been created on a permanent basis, so, most likely, your commission is located in the same place as you are used to. Just in case, you can check this using the “Find your polling station” service on the website of the Central Election Commission. There are sometimes inaccuracies, especially with regard to new buildings, but it is still the most comprehensive body of information based on the official voter register.

Another source of information is local newspapers, which published lists of polling stations in late July and early August.

What should I do if I live in another city?

If your actual place of residence differs significantly from your place of registration, and you cannot get to the corresponding polling station on September 18, then you can receive an absentee certificate at your place of registration: until September 6 inclusive - at the territorial (district) election commission (TEC), and starting from September 7 and until Saturday September 17 - at the precinct commission. If your place of registration is too far away, then you can issue a power of attorney from a notary to receive an absentee certificate (in the name of one of your relatives and friends). Then you need to send the power of attorney and the application you signed (the application does not need to be notarized) to your home country, and your relatives need to go to the commission, get an absentee certificate and send it to you.

Those who had an officially registered temporary stay had another opportunity: until August 27, they could submit an application to the TEC at their place of residence, and then they would be included in the voter list along with local residents.

What if I go on vacation or am hospitalized?

For those who are in hospitals, rest homes, sanatoriums and other places of organized temporary stay, the law provides an additional opportunity. The heads of such organizations can submit to the precinct commissions until Wednesday, September 14, a letter with a list of voters, attaching to it personal statements of these persons about their desire to vote.

What if I get sick on voting day?

Starting September 7 and until 2 p.m. on Election Day itself, you can call the election commission (or ask a family member to stop by) to express your desire to vote at home due to illness. On election day, election officials will come to you with a special portable box so you can vote.

I'm going abroad. Is there a chance to vote?

Polling stations will be open in all Russian embassies and consulates, and sometimes in other institutions, on September 18. It is more convenient, if possible, to take an absentee certificate, but the law allows you to vote without it.

Please note that in many cases, overseas commissions will organize early voting in various parts of the host country, and it may be more convenient for you not to travel to the capital or city where the consulate is located on September 18, but to vote a few days earlier in the nearest city.

Partial information about early voting is presented on the CEC website, but embassies are very independent in making their decisions, so it is better to check the schedule and exact locations of early voting on the websites or by calling the embassies.

How does voting work?

In 2007 and 2011, elections to the State Duma were held only on party lists. Now the system has been returned again, in which half of the deputies (225 seats) are elected from single-member districts, and another 225 from party lists (this is called “elections by federal district”).

The ballot for a single-mandate district contains the names of the candidates, while the ballot for the federal district contains the names of the parties and the leaders of the lists they nominated.

In addition, in some regions and municipalities, simultaneously with elections to the State Duma, other elections are held - for governors and regional parliaments, local heads and assemblies of deputies. At the same time, the number of ballots that are issued to the voter also increases.

How are the winners determined?

With a single-mandate constituency, everything is clear - whoever gets the most votes wins.

With party lists, at first glance, the situation is also not so complicated - 225 seats are divided between parties in proportion to the votes they received. However, firstly, proportions can produce fractional numbers. Secondly, the law provides for a cut-off barrier: those parties that received less than 5% of the votes do not participate in the distribution of mandates. Different countries have very different methods of accounting for balances; Russian law is structured in such a way that leftovers are mainly redistributed in favor of the largest party.

At the same time, overcoming another barrier can be considered a partial victory for the party: according to Russian law, parties that received more than 3% of the votes in the State Duma elections are entitled to budget funding (currently 110 rubles per year for each vote received in the elections).

Okay, I'm going to the polls. Who should I vote for? Where to find information about parties and candidates.

The theoretical answer is the simplest - vote for those you like. In practice, difficulties arise: if you vote for a party that does not cross the electoral threshold, then your vote will actually go to a party for which you might not want to vote at all.

The practical choice therefore comes down to a relatively small pool of parties. Most experts are inclined to believe that the new composition of the Duma will include the four current parties and Yabloko, which, contrary to its usual practice, managed to build a fairly representative coalition list, including many new faces, including non-party members.

Official information about the candidates is available. Below, under the list, there is a filter. Enter your district number and click on the “Search” button. The service is not very convenient, but it is official. There are other “deputy directories” on the Internet, but they may be incomplete or incorrect, be careful.

How do people cheat at polling stations? What should you pay attention to? I heard something about carousels

Unfortunately, participating in elections is too expensive, and the prize is too tempting, so various violations in elections happen quite often. The average voter is most often directly confronted with attempts at bribery when he is offered money for voting in a certain way. In addition, sometimes, when a voter comes to vote at the end of the day, he may find that in the list of voters for him (or for neighbors or relatives who definitely did not vote), someone signed for receipt of ballots - this may be a technical error when someone then one of the voters made a mistake on the line, or perhaps an attempt to use the voter’s name to stuff the ballot. If there are observers at your site, be sure to inform them about what happened.

There are many other types of falsifications, but they are usually not seen by all voters, but only by observers.

Who are observers, can I become an observer too?

Observers (formally they have different statuses, but we will generally call them that) are citizens who are not members of the commissions, but are vested with certain powers to monitor the correctness of voting and vote counting.

Until the early 2000s, observers could be sent both by parties and candidates, and by independent public associations that did not take part in elections. Later, the right to appoint observers remained only with candidates and parties, so legally all observers are appointed from them. Many parties and candidates cooperate with independent observer organizations and appoint observers based on their recommendations. The most well-known observation organizations are “Voice”, “Citizen Observer” and “Sonar”. All of them work exclusively with volunteers, provide training for their volunteers (both local - in those regions where they have branches, and remotely) and provide support on voting day.

Some parties themselves train their observers. Here, the involvement of observers on a paid basis is more often used, and the issues of training and organizing the work of observers are decided by the election headquarters of the parties.

They ask me who I voted for? What to answer?

Exit polls (surveys of voting citizens at the exit from the polling station) are a common practice all over the world. Russian legislation prohibits the publication of poll results, so most often they are of interest only to election headquarters.

Most often, of course, this is done by the headquarters of those candidates who are supported by the local administration. The task of such an exit poll is to understand whether everything is successful, or whether urgent measures are needed to mobilize the electorate controlled by the administration (this is perhaps the best case; in the worst case, measures to falsify the elections begin).

Therefore, on the one hand, you don’t have to be afraid to answer questions: no one cares how you personally voted. On the other hand, not responding or indicating that you voted for the administrative candidate may reduce the risk of fraud.

I don't like any candidate/party. How to proceed?

Nowhere and never, in any country in the world, is there a perfect coincidence of the positions of specific voters with the position of any candidate. Always and everywhere, the voter chooses which candidate will be more useful to him at the moment. The voter evaluates the candidate from the point of view of solving the problems that the voter sees now, and from the point of view of the approach that, in his opinion, the candidate will show in solving those problems that will arise in the future. The voter also evaluates the “passability” of candidates: there is no point in voting for a candidate who is closer in views if it is obvious that he is an outsider. It is better to spend your vote on a candidate who is a little further from the voter’s position, but still has a chance to win.

“My second self,” a person who will take the same position on any issue that a voter would take, is a spherical horse in a vacuum, it is an abstraction that may be convenient for analysis, but you should not look for it in real life.

Failure to come to the polls is not a replacement for the missing “Against all” column. In those electoral systems where this column is present, it is a cut-off barrier: it is not the abstract 5%, but the number of votes of those who believe that the ballot is incomplete that determines the cut-off point.

In electoral systems where there is no such column, you cannot say “a plague on both your houses” - because the plague will fall on our own house.