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Voting Operations
VO003
Electors vote at
Question: Where can electors vote?
Answer(s):
d . At specially designated polling stations e . At mobile polling stations
Comments: article 83: By decision of the territorial election commission, the number of mobile ballot boxes for voting outside the polling stations specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 6 of this article.
article 82: If particular groups of voters included in the voter list at the respective electoral precinct are located in places far from the voting premises, transportation links to which are absent or difficult.
Source: Federal Law on Elections of Deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, article 83: https://legislationline.org/sites/default/files/documents/34/Law%20on%20Parliamentary%20Elections%20of%20the%20Russian%20Federation%20as%20of%20February%202014.pdf
Verified: 2024/03/29
VO004
Voting outside the country is permitted for
Question: Who can vote from outside the country?
Answer(s):
b . Citizens residing outside the country c . Citizens outside the country (including those on vacation) d . Members of the armed forces e . Students f . Diplomatic staff
Comments: 3. For citizens of the Russian Federation staying outside the territory of the Russian Federation, election precincts, referendum precincts shall be formed by the heads of diplomatic or consular missions of the Russian Federation in the territory of the country where they stay. The provisions regarding the number of voters, referendum participants set forth in Clause 2 of this Article shall not be applied if election precincts, referendum precincts are formed outside the territory of the Russian Federation.
Source: Federal Law: "On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens of the Russian Federation to Participate in a Referendum", (article 19): https://www.legislationline.org/documents/action/popup/id/4170
Verified: 2024/03/29
VO005
Locations for voting outside of the country
Question: If voting outside the country is permitted, at what places?
Answer(s):
a . Embassies b . Consulates c . Special polling stations
Comments: 5. In places where voters, referendum participants temporarily stay (hospitals, sanatoriums, holiday hotels, detention centers for suspected or accused persons, and other places of temporary stay of voters), in remote areas and hard-to-reach areas, on ships at sea on the voting day and at polar stations, election precincts, referendum precincts may be formed within the periods established by Clause 2 of this Article, and in exceptional cases and upon approval of the superior commission, not later than in 3 days before the voting day. Such election precincts shall be included in electoral districts where the election precincts are located or where the ships are registered. At elections to bodies of state power of the subject of the Russian Federation, to bodies of local self-government, at a referendum of the subject of the Russian Federation, a local referendum, the law of the subject of the Russian Federation may prescribe a different procedure for assignment of precincts to electoral districts, referendum districts. In remote and hard-to-reach places, at ships that are at sea on the voting, at polar stations election precincts, referendum precincts may be formed by superior commission in coordination with the captain of the ship, the head of the polar station, heads of organizations located in hard-to-reach or remote areas.
(as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ, of October 4, 2010, No.263-FZ)
Source: Federal Law: "On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens of the Russian Federation to Participate in a Referendum", article 19: https://legislationline.org/taxonomy/term/12320
Verified: 2024/03/29
VO011
Voting method
Question: How do electors cast their votes?
Answer(s):
a . Manually marking of ballots
Comments: 8. Voting shall be carried out by a voter by marking the ballot with any sign: on the ballot for voting in the federal electoral district – in the square referring to the chosen federal list of candidates; on the ballot for voting in the single-mandate electoral district - in the square referring to the chosen candidate.
Source: Electoral Law: Federal Law On Elections of Deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, amended as of April 5, 2016, article 81: https://legislationline.org/sites/default/files/documents/34/Law%20on%20Parliamentary%20Elections%20of%20the%20Russian%20Federation%20as%20of%20February%202014.pdf
Verified: 2024/03/29
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