Alexey Venediktov about the proposal and continue to vote for several days

The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko proposed extending voting to the polling elections within a few days. For the first time, this practice was applied by voting on amendments to the Constitution.

“I want to note an excellent organization of the voting process. I must say that everything is thought out to the details, so that it is convenient for citizens to make the will of citizens absolutely safely. It can already be argued today that the decision to conduct voting for several days justified itself, ”she said.

According to RIA Novosti, Senator Andrei Klishas, ​​the Federation Council will discuss this topic with the Central Election Commission and the Public Chamber.

In an interview with RBC, a member of the CEC Evgeny Shevchenko said that voting is possible within a few days. “If this is an element of electoral legislation, the CEC as a law enforcement authority will implement this,” he said.

Meanwhile, the editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow, Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, told The Insider that he considers such a practice “not effective and unnecessary”. “Voting with paper ballots for several days is a very bad idea. Because first of all, this reduces trust, it is difficult to observe such elections, and the issues of storage of ballots arise. We see this already on the complaints that we receive. In addition, this excludes schools from the process. Voting usually takes place in September, how will schools work for several days? ”He said.