In the first day, the turnout for the elections to the State Duma in Moscow exceeded 23%

“Thus, the turnout of online voting is 63.1%, which is 16% of the number of voters in the city as a whole.

And the [total] turnout in Moscow is 23.07%, ”TASS quoted the head of the Public Headquarters for Election Observation in the capital, Alexei Venediktov, as quoted by TASS.

According to him, 1.271 million people voted online.

He added that 50,000 people used the re-voting function during online voting.

Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin used the phone of one of his aides to vote in the State Duma elections online.