Instead of changing just remote electronic voting, parliamentarians seem to be going to make much more serious changes to all electoral legislation.
According to the correspondent MorningNews, deputies of the State Duma approved in the second reading a bill that introduces a number of important changes to the country’s electoral system. Initially, it was assumed that it would affect only the organization of the work of remote electronic voting, but in the process of work it was decided to significantly expand it.
The legislative initiative itself, designed to systematize the work of the DEG, belongs to deputies Dmitry Vyatkin and Dmitry Lameikin from United Russia. Initially, the project involved the inclusion of a new provision in the framework law on guarantees of electoral rights, which would directly relate to voting on the Internet. It was adopted in the first reading on 26 January.
But already for the second reading, a lot of amendments were received, which one way or another can affect the entire electoral system of the country. In particular, an amendment about the impossibility of re-voting appeared in the draft. Previously, the same clause was used in the elections to the State Duma in Moscow in the fall of 2021, and at the insistence of the city authorities, headed by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
However, the amendment was not to everyone’s liking. For example, the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, objects to it. At the same time, among other clarifying and supplementing points, there were more than 10 amendments that have nothing to do with electronic voting.
Among them is a ban on being elected in any elections for five years after the repayment of a criminal record for people convicted of extremist crimes (against the foundations of the constitutional order and state security). In addition, the rules for participation in elections of candidates with
