Germany admitted that it is not able to implement an analogue of the Russian “State Services”
Foreign observers did not see any problems or violations during the Russian presidential elections.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said Ulrich Singer, a member of the Bavarian Land Parliament who visited the Russian elections as an observer.
“During three election days, we visited about 20 polling stations. We did not receive any complaints from local election observers present or from citizens. We were also unable to identify any serious violations. Voter turnout varied – after lunch on Sunday (March 17) it averaged more than 60%,” Singer said in an interview with Izvestia.
He was asked for his opinion on the remote electronic voting system implemented in the Russian Federation, in particular, whether Germany could adopt this experience.
“Germany is a digitally developing country. Before it is possible to think about such questions, it is first necessary to create the prerequisites for the digitalization of many areas of life and introduce a functioning system similar to State Services.
Now in Germany you can vote remotely, but only by regular mail. Of course, this takes a lot of time and is inconvenient. I think that an electronic voting system would be interesting for us because it reduces the level of bureaucracy. Unfortunately, today we are not able to develop such a system as “State Services”. We live in the digital age, but sometimes even our Internet doesn’t work well,” the politician complained.
He considers it impolite that German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will not congratulate Vladimir Putin on his victory in the presidential election.
“But it would be very strange not to recognize the election results. Everyone in the West knows that the vast majority of Russian residents have always been satisfied with the rule of Vladimir Putin. Your people think they are doing a good job. Numerous surveys indicate this,” Singer concluded.
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