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President Vladimir Putin met with Ela Pamfilova, Chairperson of the Central Election Commission, on Monday and heard a report on the results of the September Single Voting Day (SVD). Thanks to the coordinated actions of activists and relevant agencies, the elections were "as successful as possible," the committee chairperson assured, noting the highest voter turnout in history and the growing popularity of electronic voting as key features. SVD-2024.
Ela Pamfilova gave a detailed report on the 2024 presidential election results to Vladimir Putin on April 16, but her traditional report on the EBC results to the Kremlin also began with a mention of an “unprecedented presidential campaign.” She said both elections were “extremely successful,” largely due to “more coordinated actions than ever before between all participants in the process and all agencies.” “We communicated very clearly and quickly with law enforcement agencies, legislative bodies, the government, and local authorities,” the chairwoman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) explained.
She also recalled that even before the Russian presidential elections, "there were disputes and discussions about why elections should be held in such conditions, and now the authorities will have a reason to refuse this and it will be easier to work." But in the end, "an understanding arose" that holding elections is especially important "in the current circumstances, when the country is facing many challenges." Because "people want a very accountable, predictable and understandable government," Ms. Pamfilova emphasized.
President Putin supported this conclusion, stating that "reliance on the people, their trust and support are also very important for authorities at all levels." As for the SVO, the decision not to boycott the elections was "conscious." "It is different from some. They took advantage of this and rejected it," the CEC chairman said, apparently hinting at Ukraine's decision to postpone the elections. The head of state, this is what motivates the fight.
According to Ms. Pamfilova, in Russia “the authorities understand their enormous responsibility to the people.”
From an organizational and technical point of view, everything was great, Ella Pamfilova praised her colleagues, but the main component of success was precisely the “understanding that it is now impossible to live as usual,” that is, “if the rear is like this, we will do everything we can. “I owe you something.”
Both campaigns saw record-high voter turnout and high confidence in the results, and in both cases security was a priority, according to the chair of the National Electoral Commission. During the presidential campaign, “they were mainly thinking about reunification. The theme” was border regions, including the “heroic” Kursk region of the UDP era. As a result, organizers managed to ensure “an optimal combination of security and rights,” Ms. Pamfilova emphasized.
She also mentioned another “important feature of this year”. “In these elections, we said goodbye to our natural system of automated government management, “Elections”, just one day after voting day. It has been working flawlessly and flawlessly for over 20 years.
From January 1 of next year, we will completely switch to digital-analog, the new digital platform GAS "Elections" version 2.0, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission announced.
At the same time, the Commission continues to expand the regions of remote electronic voting (REV), "judging by the survey" and "many regions already want to have such an opportunity," said Ella Pamfilova. To date, REV has been tested in 37 subjects of the Russian Federation, and "21 million people (voters - "Kommersant") have already felt what REV is," the committee chairperson added. And the fact that people "now have the right to choose" was liked first and foremost by the voters themselves, she is sure.
At the end of the public part of the meeting, Ms. Pamfilova shared with the president "interesting statistics" about the attitude of Russians to DEG. "Based on the results of these campaigns, we analyzed who prefers DEG. The result was a complete defeat of men - 66% of women!" When broken down by age groups, it is clear that remote formats are preferred by middle-aged citizens (44% of voters aged 36-50 choose remote work), while interest in DEG is in the age group of 18-50 years and almost the same among those over 50 years old (27-29%).
In general, various innovations were used "to the fullest extent" in the last elections, which were "introduced consistently and very intensively," which helped "prevent failure" in "such extreme situations," Ella Pamfilova added. "Therefore, many new developments are currently taking place in Moscow to see how and what can be implemented throughout Russia," the Central Election Commission Chairperson summarized.