Moscow’s first test for a new remote electronic voting system ended in a technological failure, prominent election analyst Grigory Melkonyants announced on Facebook. The Internet voting mechanism was put to the test during an election for the best student congress president in Moscow’s higher education system. 1,794 “voters” — that is, Moscow university students — were asked to select their favorites from a list of 15 candidates.
Melkonyants said that the voting system failed while votes were still being cast. “The printers aren’t printing, and the stats aren’t refreshing, but at the same time, we can say with certainty that the students are voting,” he wrote. An accompanying photograph of a voting observation machine indicated that data in the new system stopped changing at 5:00 PM local time.
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