All polling stations to be "armed" with scanners recording number of ballots in boxes with per-second accuracy - CEC chief
MOSCOW. Sept 18 (Interfax) - All polling stations during next elections will be fitted with special scanners reading the so-called QR code of a voting results protocol in order to dispel observers' doubts, the head of Russia's Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, said.
"By the next campaign, we will try to arm all polling stations with these scanners. Then all questions on the part of observers, about the adequacy of the protocols being entered in the GAS-Vybory system, will simply automatically disappear," Pamfilova said at the CEC on Sunday.
These scanners register how many ballots are in the box with per-second accuracy, she said. These devices read the QR code, and the information is entered directly into the GAS-Vybory system.
