March 18, 2018, the Russians will choose the president. Every citizen of the country who has reached 18 years of age must visit the polling station, decide which of the eight eligible candidates is worthy to take the place of the leader of the state, and voice it, choosing in favor of one of them:
- Vladimir Putin;
- Grigory Yavlinsky;
- Sergey Baburin;
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky;
- Pavel Grudinin;
- Maxim Suraikin;
- Boris Titov;
- Ksenia Sobchak.
All information about these candidates is published on the website of the Central Election Commission. Opening hours of the plots are from 8:00 to 20:00. Come with a passport.
The election results are announced by the Central Election Commission a maximum of ten days after the day of voting.
Absolutely all information can be found on the round-the-clock telephone of the CEC Hot Line - the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation. Calling in Russia is free.
Where can I find a list of polling stations, what are their features?
Lists of officially registered voting places throughout Russia are published in the public domain on the Internet. All information is indicated: site number, interactive map, address of the institution where to go, contact phone number, list of addresses that fall under the department of this site.
Different in scale, some are designed for 3 thousand voters, others - only for hundreds. A large number of ballots will be stamped and signed, and then counted. This is a huge job for commission members.
The number of ballot processing complexes - KOIBov - was doubled in 2018 for maximum transparency of the vote compared to previous years.
There are areas where there are no electronic ballot boxes, there will be used ballots with a QR code - this will help limit the possibilities for fraud and fraud.
There are more cameras. About 80% of the premises are equipped with video surveillance systems, everyone can track what is happening online. The number of international process observers has also been increased.
Find your site
Every Russian citizen has a place of registration, and in order to vote, one must visit the corresponding polling station. You can find it using the special form on the website of the State Service portal, indicating the address of your registration in the capital. Alternatively, call the CEC at the number indicated above and you will be informed of its location.
And you can not get attached to the place and vote on someone else’s site, but for this you need to file an application in advance at your location.
If I can’t come to my site?
If everything was complicated before, and you could vote only with reference to the place of your registration, today you can vote at the place of your stay. After all, it happens that you are not at home.
Keep in mind that on the 18th, polling stations will be opened in various rest houses, in hospitals, in sanatoriums, as well as in airports and railway stations. An application for inclusion in the place is submitted only once.
It was possible to submit an application in 2018 before March 12:
- Through the Internet on the portal "State service of the Russian Federation." To do this, you must have a verified account with the current mobile phone number.
- Personally, by submitting a paper application to the territorial election commission or to the precinct authority.
- Contact any center "My Documents".
Read the online application guidelines below.
Applying online
You can apply for elections from a personal account on the Gosuslug portal - online.
- Follow the link to your personal account.
- Click on "Select Polling Station." Next, select the application method - this, respectively, in your case - online through the state portal. Click on the banner "Get the service."
- Next, you will see an application form with all the data, you need to check their relevance (they are transferred here automatically from the personal account of the portal). If the data is different, correct it by clicking on the "Change data" link.
- Indicate the registration address, if there is none, put a tick about it, then select the country of voting and your location (the name of the city, street and metro station) from the list that will correspond to your location on the day of voting.
- Make a choice of the polling station, click on the address convenient for you and click "Select." Confirm the relevance of the indicated registration address and your agreement that the application for changing the polling station is submitted only once.
- Next, expect SMS notifications on your mobile phone, indicated in the personal account of the portal. It contains an action confirmation code. Enter it in the required field, click "Submit".
- You will find yourself on the notification page of your personal account with information about the application, after a while it will receive the status of "Registered".
That part of the application, that is, in fact, an absentee ballot that is printed out, can be downloaded by you, and you can send it by e-mail.
Do not forget to take it to the indicated site on the day of the election. If you cannot print, show the application to the election commission members on the mobile phone screen.
How to vote abroad?
It doesn’t matter if you are abroad, you can also vote there. To do this, you need to communicate your desire to the Russian consulate in the country where you will be. Consider their work schedule, take care of this in advance.
Home mode
Online voting for the President of the Russian Federation is not provided.
You can do this at home if for health reasons you cannot come to the site in person. To do this, report it by telephone to your polling station. They will help you. There is a possibility - ask to submit your application (in free form) that you can vote only at home. An explanation of the reasons is required.
Am I eligible to vote?
If you are a citizen of the Russian Federation who has reached the age of eighteen years, you are not sentenced to a prison sentence or have not been declared legally incapable by the court - welcome to the elections!
Find out the number of the polling station at the address and go to vote. You must have a passport with you or a temporary provisional identity card in place of it. Or a military ID. Other documents are not suitable.
I do not have a residence permit ...
And this is also not an obstacle if you are a respectable citizen of Russia. The main thing is to submit a timely application for inclusion in the voter list by actual stay, in 2018 this could be done before March 12. Let it be in a strange city, but it is necessary to pay back the debt to the homeland.
- Contact the territorial commission that is most convenient for you or the precinct election agency.
- Affiliates of the Multifunctional Center also accept applications.
- Or, if you have the opportunity to access the Internet, fill out the online application on the Gosuslug website.
I'm on my way - how to vote?
Station or airport ... You can end up there. With this in mind, the authorities provided the opportunity to vote for the future President while on the road. How to find a site there, what documents will be needed?
Air harbors take ... voices
Every day, millions of citizens pass Russian airports through themselves, so it is no wonder that polling stations will operate in some of them on the 18th. There will be twenty-five of them this year.In Moscow, you can vote in Domodedovo, in Vnukovo, as well as in Sheremetyevo. Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg will also accept everyone to vote. And in the north in Siberia you can vote in Tolmachevo, in the city of Novosibirsk, in Emelyanovo of the city of Krasnoyarsk. A branch will be opened at the Omsk airport. These sites work on the same schedule as the rest - from 8 am to eight in the evening.
Station for Two - newsletter and you
How many polling stations will be open at train stations? There will be thirty-two of them in 25 cities of our country. As for Moscow, you can come to vote on Leningradsky and Yaroslavsky, as well as Paveletsky, Kazan and Kursky. The Moscow railway station in St. Petersburg will also accept everyone who wants to put a ballot with a tick in the ballot box.
On the official website of the electoral body, you can find out which sections and at which airports or at which stations will be opened, whether you can vote at the points through which you travel March 18, 2018. An interactive map of all sites is available online - you only need to enter the airport or train station in the search box. The system will inform you if there is a site. You will also be informed of this information by the toll free number (indicated above).
Write a statement about the need to include you in the list, indicating the required number of the polling station in any territorial commission or in the MFC branch or online through the "State Services".
If the need for departure is a surprise, then from March 13 to 17 (until 2:00 p.m.), contact the CEC at the place of registration. Here you need to write a special statement, which indicates the site for visiting for the purpose of voting, and on which a special protective mark will be attached in the upper left corner. You will be excluded from the list of voters at the place of your registration, in the column "Special Markings" indicate the number of the stamped. One part of the stamp will be attached opposite the name of the voter at the airport or train station where the citizen will appear for voting.
There is no registration or application
It is quite possible that you do not have a residence permit at the place of your stay, and you cannot submit an application for the site - you didn’t have time or for other reasons. Anything can happen. As an exception, the commission will consider this case, taking into account all the circumstances. Nevertheless, take care of applying in advance, and you will not have problems.
What to bring with you?
If you have a written and registered statement of intention to vote at the place of stay (this applies to air harbors and stations), then you only need a passport. If there is no passport (in the process of re-issuance), then, having appeared at the polling station at the address of registration or in a place convenient for you, you must have a temporary ID of a Russian citizen with you, and if you are a military person, you can vote on a military ID or temporary document instead of him.
No passport - what to do to vote?
Lost your passport ... or reissuing a document. Contact the official bodies of the migration service for obtaining a temporary identity card, presenting it, you can cast your vote for the future President of the country.
In addition, you can vote:
- as indicated above, on a military ID or on a certificate temporarily replacing it;
- if you are in military service - according to an identity document;
- for a passport in case of permanent residence outside the borders of the Russian Federation;
- according to the issued certificate for the citizens of Russia for those in custody as a result of suspicion or accusation of an offense.
If you only have a driver’s license, you won’t be able to vote only for it.
Not listed
If you are worried if you are included in the lists at the polling stations, you can check this information by contacting the precinct election commission where you intend to come to vote before the election day. Verify the data.
It is better to do this in advance in order to have time to apply to the list at a different address.
If on the day of voting in the polling station you did not find your last name in the lists, the chairman of the commission should help you by checking the information if you have voted in another polling station. If your last name is not in the lists of voters at another polling station, you will be surely included in the list and then you can fulfill your civic duty. If they refuse, call the hotline number already known to you.
You have already voted, although you have not voted
Finally, there are situations when you, having found your polling station, find that there is a mark on the lists that you have already cast your vote.
You must fix this violation with the chairman of the election commission by drawing up a protocol signed by this official and stamped. In this case, you need to phone the higher election commission and report on the incident to the head of this department.