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Election officials say just a few hundred people could have voted multiple times in Russia's recent presidential election

Source: Meduza

Repeat voting wasn’t a big problem in last month’s presidential contest, says Russia’s Central Election Commission, which cited preliminary data on Wednesday that says just 677 people could have voted multiple times on March 18. Commissioner Ella Pamfilova says her office will review the votes recorded in 78 different regions to see if anyone on this list actually cast more than one vote, and she’s invited the Interior Ministry and Investigative Committee to conduct their own inspections.

Pamfilova also says her office plans to file defamation lawsuits against several news media outlets that reported supposedly large-scale repeat voting in the presidential election.

Meduza has debated Alexey Navalny on the subject of Russia’s new “Mobile Voter” system. He argues that the system was designed intentionally to let people falsify the vote by casting multiple ballots at different polling stations. Meduza has demonstrated how this isn’t true (at least on paper).

How many Russians voted on March 18? More than 73 million. Official turnout reached 67.5 percent, with 77 percent of the vote going to the incumbent, Vladimir Putin.

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