Emergency measures to combat the spread of coronavirus in Russia, including the closing of borders, mandatory quarantines for immigrants from poor countries, the transfer of students into distance learning, still in no way affected the coming vote on amendments to the Constitution. According to sources of Vedomosti close to the presidential administration, the complete abolition of voting had not yet been discussed.

This will raise doubts about the legitimacy of the adoption of the amendments. The opposition may say that the government got scared and used the situation with coronavirus to hold the amendment. In addition, the President has repeatedly stressed that it is very important that the amendment was supported by people, explained one of the interlocutors of the newspaper.

will Not be able to have and to hold e-voting across the country, because the regions lack the necessary infrastructure, but in Moscow emphasis will be placed on it. To translate the vote in the capital, a fully electronic format will not. But the Kremlin can lower the required voter turnout and of voting for the amendment: 60%. The main thing is to avoid panic, because then vote for the amendments, no one will come, said one of the sources.

Secretary of the CEC, Maya Grishina told Interfax that the Commission is studying the possibility of increasing periods of early voting, and she still has time to make a final decision on this matter.

the Decision (to be taken within the time), on the basis of the signed law, which is in the constitutional court, which says that we have three days after the decree of the President about appointment of date of elections, she specified. According to another interviewee, familiar with a situation, a decision can be made as early as next Wednesday.

According to Vedomosti, the CEC prepared a draft order.and vote provides for expression outside the polling station during the three days before election day. Yet the estimated date for the vote is April 22, but the last word for the President.

the head of the Public headquarters for the observation of elections in the capital, the chief editor of Echo of Moscow Alexei Venediktov wrote in a Telegram that he believes the right to put the question on the abolition of voting on April 22. He noted that 95% of polling stations located in schools, and schools need to send to quarantine. In Moscow, we will remind, on March 16, introduced free school attendance.

co-Chairman of the movement Golos Gregory Melkonyants believes that the expansion of the list of valid reasons for home-based voting, its extension and lack of effective monitoring can lead to the explosive growth of statistics about the number of voters at home. Therefore, the attendance will be done early and home early voting, whereas during a pandemic, it is necessary to abandon the vote and not put people at risk.

In his opinion, if the vote is not canceled, it will demonstrate the governments attitude to its citizens and could lead to lower turnout and vote against the amendments. And visiting voters at home will create additional threat of infection and spread of the virus.

the Expert of the movement Voice Basil Weissenberg pointed to a number of problems with electronic voting. The main complexity of the control of the observers, and the inability to check your voice for voters: voters cannot verify that his vote in the electronic system was considered correct. The expert also recalled that the mechanism of online voting has caused serious concerns during the elections to the Moscow city Duma. Then the result of the failure of the system of Internet voting have stopped work from-for technical problems, and then e-voting had to be suspended fromre-keying of cryptographic equipment.

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