Russia: "Not our function" - head of elex commission on blocking "Smart Voting" resources

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Chairperson of the Central Election Commission of Russia, Ella Pamfilova, discussed the CEC’s role in Russia’s State Duma election, during a press briefing on Sunday.

When asked about monitoring the vote, Pamfilova said “There is Roskomnadzor for that. We [the CEC] only work on complaints. We have no monitoring services, it is not our function. We have enough other responsibilities and workloads.”

The CEC head also responded to a question about the alleged coercion of budgetary employees to vote. She said that out of 127 applications received so far, three cases have been confirmed.

“If it’s within our remit, we’ll look into it. If it is beyond our competence, we send [that complaint] either to the prosecutor’s office or to the court. That’s it,” Pamfilova stated.

According to the CEC, after processing just over 40 per cent of the ballots, United Russia leads with 45.5 per cent, followed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) on 21.7 per cent, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) on 8.2 per cent, Fair Russia on 7.6 per cent, and the ‘New People’ faction at 6.2 per cent. Other parties have not yet hit the necessary 5 per cent mark, such as The Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice on 2.76 per cent of the vote, the Communists of Russia party on 1.4 per cent, and Yabloko currently under 1 per cent.

Russians went to the polls between September 17-19 to choose members of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, as well as members of 39 regional parliaments and nine regional leaders. Voters have elected 450 State Duma deputies in total, via Russia’s hybrid electoral system. Half has been selected from party lists in one federal constituency, with the other 225 elected in single-mandate constituencies under the first-past-the-post voting system.

TRANSLATIONS:

SOT, Ella Pamfilova, Chairperson of Central Election Commission of Russia (Russian): “I have given you the number of complaints we have received about this. We have all of them, 120 or so, I do not remember now for the whole of Russia, but 1.5 complaints per region on average. We have sent information on all of them to the head of the region and the prosecutor general’s office, and we will give an answer as soon as they figure it out. We said that of those cases [of coercion to vote], which were there, so far only three have been confirmed out of 127 complaints. As for the rumours and speculations - you have been living in Russia for a long time, if a granny told you so, the word of mouth… For us, it is not a reason to put a cloud in our trousers, excuse me. A specific complaint, a specific appeal. If it’s within our remit, we’ll look into it. If it is beyond our competence, we forward it either to the prosecutor’s office or to court. That is it.”

SOT, Ella Pamfilova, Chairperson of Central Election Commission of Russia (Russian): “The popularity [of e-voting] has increased in this campaign, but to make sure that the system is absolutely secure, invulnerable to cyber-attacks and other attacks. There was an unprecedented number of them this time, there have always been many, but what was going on in this company is just unimaginable. And on our website. This is one of the problems that is preventing us from moving faster than we are solving it.”

SOT, Ella Pamfilova, Chairperson of Central Election Commission of Russia (Russian): “There is Roskomnadzor for that. We [the CEC] only work on complaints. We don’t have monitoring services, it’s not our function. We have enough other responsibilities and workloads.”

SOT, Ella Pamfilova, Chairperson of Central Election Commission of Russia (Russian): “Today I talked to our ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, by video conference, watching how they are voting. When we [informed Antonov] that, according to our information, up to 50% of [DDoS] attacks are coming from the States, he instructed his counterpart in the States to take this very seriously, with understanding.”

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