A video wall showing webcasts from polling places across Russia was launched in the Central Election Commission (CEC) on Sunday.
The ceremony was attended by Communications Minister Igor Shchyogolev and CEC head Vladimir Churov, as well as two foreign observers, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
“For the first time in history we see in real time mode that the vote in the Chukotka Autonomous Area [in the Far East] started. For the first time in history we can see everything at all polling stations,” Churov said. “This is fantastic even to me.”
Shchyogolev said video surveillance is conducted at 91,000 polling places across Russia, “80,000 in real time mode, and 11,000 in the recording mode.”
Over 1,000,000 users wishing to monitor the vote online on Sunday have been registered, he also said, adding that all polling stations are covered by observers.
