The election of the governor of the Kursk region will be held in a 100% paper way due to constant problems with the Internet

Early electronic voting in the elections of the Kursk governor in September will not be carried out due to interruptions in the work of communication, the regional election commander said .

“Voters will be able to vote only with the help of paper ballots in polling stations, at home, or when using additional forms of voting. This has been due to unstable work of mobile communications and the Internet in the region, which may serve as an obstacle to the will of voters when using DEG, ”the regional commission said.

Earlier, the CEC of Russia has already decided to postpone municipal elections in 8 districts of the Kursk region: Belovsky, Bolshesoldat, Glushkovsky, Korenevsky, Lig, Rylsky, Sudzhansky, Khomutovsky. 43 election campaigns are temporarily delayed, I remembered the Oblazbirk.

The election of the head of the Kursk region must be held on September 14.

Now the position of acting governor of the region is held by Alexander Hinshtein, appointed Putin in December 2024.

The Kursk region is a border with Ukraine, and it regularly finds itself under the blows. From August 2024 to March, 2025, part of the region was controlled by the Armed Forces.