Nationwide testing of online voting before Russian presidential election over

MOSCOW. March 6 (Interfax) - The nationwide testing of the federal online voting website in 28 regions before the Russian presidential election has been completed and no failures or complaints were registered, Oleg Artamonov, chairman of the Distance Electronic Voting Territorial Election Commission, said.

"The testing of the distance electronic voting system has been completed, the voting has ended in Kaliningrad. The results are now being verified, protocols are being signed," Artamonov told reporters on Wednesday.

"No failures were registered during the testing, there were no objective complaints, that is, the system worked stably," he said.

Artamonov earlier said more than 500,000 people had taken part in the nationwide testing.

The testing of the federal online voting website before the Russian presidential election began at 8:00 a.m. on March 5 and lasted until 4:00 p.m. on March 6 local time in participating regions.

The online voting mechanism will be used in the presidential election in 28 regions using a federal website. Moscow will use its own website.

The Russian presidential election will be held over three days, on March 15-17.