Commission denounces cyber attack on electronic voting system in Moscow

“ Literally, throughout the night, the Moscow system was the subject of a very powerful attack,” said Pamfilova, president of the CEC, to the local media, realizing that it was a “practically continuous” and “abroad and intense” attack.

According to her Pamfilova, the system, however, works normally, since the committee has not received any complaints in this regard.

“We need to warn everyone. Our mission is to hold the elections as clean as possible. As much as possible!" said the president of the ECC, adding that it depends on the legitimacy of the electoral process in Russia.

She also left an appeal to the press to “not work for enemies who want to discredit” the electoral act.

The group of anonymous hackers CikLeak claims to have hacked the servers to report that the CEC “created a completely opaque remote electronic voting system” that allows electoral fraud.

They therefore called on the Russians to go to the voting tables only on the last day of the elections, on Sunday, “to make it difficult to falsify the results”.

A third of the Russians voted in the first legislative elections after the start of the war with Ukraine, the CEC reported this morning.

The authorities admit that the majority of the inhabitants of the capital and the Moscow region voted electronically. In total, according to the government, 70% of Russians who had requested the option of electronic vote voted in this way on Friday, which aroused suspicion by observers and opposition.

Russian President Vladimir Putin himself started the parliamentary elections on Friday by voting on the Internet. The Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin followed him.

The United Russia party seeks to re-validate the constitutional majority it achieved in 2016, although it plays against it the fact that 59% of Russians defend the rapid end of the war, according to a Levada Center poll.