Without the absentee ballots: how now to vote in elections, not place of residence

Without the absentee ballots: how now to vote in elections, not place of residence

In a single day of voting, the election commissions will be tested in 20 regions new system of inclusion of citizens in voter lists at their place of stay.

In the single voting day on September 10, elections of different levels will be held in 82 regions of Russia. From July 26, territorial election commissions begin to accept applications from citizens who want to vote where they actually reside, not at the place of registration. This is the first election in Russia, which will be tested a new system instead of absentee ballots. TASS tells, who it will affect and how now to vote no on residence registration.

In what regions of the canceled absentee

The new procedure of voting not at the place of residence will affect the citizens living in 20 regions, where in 2017, chosen by the governors or deputies of legislative assemblies of subjects of the Russian Federation. This is the Republic of Buryatia, Karelia, Mari El, Mordovia, North Ossetia, Udmurtia, Krasnodar and Perm Krai, Belgorod, Kaliningrad, Kirov, Novgorod, Penza, Ryazan, Saratov, Sakhalin, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Yaroslavl regions and the city of Sevastopol.

In these regions, voters now need to apply to the electoral Commission special statements to be included in lists for vote on a site in another city. In other regions still are absentee ballots.

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