As RIA Novosti clarifies, 3,505,796 ballots were issued, 3,483,300 ballots were received. This is data as of 14:44 Moscow time.
Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Alexey Shaposhnikov praised the electronic voting system in the capital.
“Moscow is the leader of digital technologies in Russia.
Including electoral technologies.
DEG speeds up both voting and summing up results.
As the youth would say, DEG and TEG went off with a bang,” he said.
Earlier it was reported that voter turnout for the Russian presidential elections as of 12:50 Moscow time on March 17 reached 65.05%.