In the presidential elections, 87,576,075 people voted.
Photo: Ivan MAKEEV
President Vladimir Putin received 87.28 percent of the vote in the last presidential election. 76,277,708 people voted for the current president.
These are the definitive data, as announced by its president Ella Pamfilova at a meeting of the Central Electoral Commission. The three remaining candidates accounted for just over ten percent. The second place, Nikolai Kharitonov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), obtained 4.31%, Vladislav Davankov (New People’s Party), 3.85%, and Leonid Slutsky (LDPR), 3.2%.
The overall participation was 77.49%. This is a record number: 87,576,075 people voted in the elections. Abroad, 388,791 voters voted in the presidential elections.
“This is external pressure on our country,” said Ella Pamfilova. – Compared to the last elections, when there were no threats like now, the number of voters with a strong civic position has increased by 20 million. In 2018, 56 million 426 thousand 399 voters voted for Vladimir Putin in absolute terms. Then, many of his followers simply did not go to the polls.
12 MILLION HACKING ATTACKS
The turnout and the number of votes cast for Vladimir Putin are not the only records of this election. For example, they became the fastest at processing ballots. Just 9 hours after the polls closed, 98.4% of the votes were processed.
According to Ella Pamfilova, the expression of the will of citizens occurred under unprecedented pressure from the outside. Attempts to void ballots with green paint and even arson at polling stations were just the tip of the iceberg: electronic election infrastructure withstood more than 12.2 million DDOS attacks by hackers.
“These are just potentially dangerous attacks that could cause real damage, we don’t take into account the little things,” Ella Pamfilova said. – Compared to previous elections, the number of attacks of this type has multiplied by 150. There is no doubt that only the intelligence services of Western countries can do this, and not some hacker groups. By the way, there were fewer fakes this time. Apparently many of his sources have gone abroad.
Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission of Russia Ella Pamfilova and Secretary of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Natalya Budarina (from left to right). Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev/TASS
By the way, about “Zelensky’s green things” – this is what Ella Pamfilova called the West’s attempts to spoil the ballots with the help of traitors and confused people. The Central Electoral Commission was preparing for something like this: more than 64 thousand reserve premises were prepared where polling stations could be moved in case of emergency situations. But the effectiveness of offline attacks turned out to be close to zero. They were registered in 41 sites, out of a total of 96 thousand workers in the country. All “green” ballot boxes were immediately isolated and opened once voting was completed.
“In total, there were about 240 ballots in these ballot boxes,” Ella Pamfilova said. – Most of them were preserved. Only 36 ballots were irreparably damaged. It’s just a soap bubble.
COMPLAINTS – FOREIGN EMPLOYERS
According to Ella Pamfilova, the last elections were probably the cleanest in history. In particular, not a single complaint was received that should have been considered by the CEC.
“In total, after the election results, more than 14,000 complaints about possible violations were received,” Ella Pamfilova said. – Most of them are templates from abroad, they were sent so that we would get stuck in a whirlwind of papers. 459 reports of possible actual rapes turned out to be real. Of them, 178 concerned the refusal to register Boris Nadezhdin.
The openness and transparency of the elections was guaranteed by the presence of observers, including foreigners. Russia’s political parties and public organizations deployed more than 317,000 observers at polling stations. And 1,115 people came from abroad. They represented 129 countries from all continents. These were, for example, representatives of 22 European countries, 38 Asian countries and 2 North American countries. 14.7 thousand representatives of the media, including foreign media, worked at the sites.
“We are accused of not inviting OSCE/ODIHR representatives,” said Elle Pamfilova. “But this organization has long been without authority in many countries.” I told them this to their faces when they came to us last. We see that if a country is convenient, follows the policies of the West and works for its interests, then we can turn a blind eye to both human rights and the quality of elections. But if a country tries to defend its sovereignty and wants to interact on equal terms, then here it has the electoral baton through the OSCE ODIHR. We have been through this many times.
