Russian authorities shelve plans for mass rollout of electronic voting
E-voting was expected to be the Kremlin’s key tool for securing favorable outcomes in the 2026 State Duma elections.
Now, sources close to election officials have revealed plans to scale back its use.
What are the reasons behind this possible shift in strategy?
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Experts: High results in 2025 governor elections attributed to vote rigging
Electoral analyst Ivan Shukshin has examined the results from several Russian regions where gubernatorial ‘elections’ took place in September 2025.
His unambiguous conclusion: the results were falsified.
REM publishes some of Shukshin’s conclusions.
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Statement on Russian regional elections 2025
On 12–14 September 2025, Russia held regional elections.
Elections were held in 81 regions with more than 5,000 election campaigns at various levels.
REM monitored the voting process and summarized the main conclusions from the observation.