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2024: Use of neural networks when verifying signatures for candidates
At the end of January 2024, the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation spoke about the use of neural networks to verify signatures for presidential candidates in Russia. According to Nikolai Bulaev, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, we are talking about the use of a "special technical complex" that allows the commission's specialists to speed up work on documents 8-10 times.
 | We practically exclude the so-called human factor - the error factor. And in this case, the developed program allows us to use neural networks that make deep verification unmistakable, - said Bulaev on the air of Channel One (quoted by RIA Novosti) on January 26, 2024. |  |
Later, on January 29, 2024, the chairman of the CEC of Russia, Ella Pamfilova, clarified that the commission had involved neural networks in verifying signatures. According to the head of the Central Election Commission, verification of signatures is quite laborious work, which takes about 15 hours. That is why neural networks come to the rescue. They compare the data in the protocols with a single base of voters. The final verdict is the minimum percentage of marriage.
As noted by the secretary of the Central Election Commission Natalya Budarina, as a result of the audit, 91 signatures out of 60 thousand were declared invalid. These are inaccuracies in information about voters about the support of a particular participant in the presidential campaign.
According to Nikolai Bulaev, the technical solution was not invented in order to deceive anyone, and the claims, doubts about its use "from the evil."
| | They [doubters] can come and get acquainted with the work of the complex at any time. We showed it at presentations both in Moscow and in St. Petersburg. We have no task in teaching the program to deceive someone, "he concluded (quoted by TASS).[1] | |
2023: Banning employees from using iPhones and iPads
On July 20, 2023, it became known about the decision of the Central Election Commission Russia to ban its employees from using them iPhone iPad for official purposes. Ella Pamfilova The press service of the commission told about the corresponding order of the CEC chairman. TASS
The CEC noted that back in May 2023, Pamfilova was given recommendations to all CEC members, as well as to employees of the apparatus not to use IPhone for official purposes.
Federal authorities in Russia, one of the other, began to impose a ban on the use of Apple equipment by employees after the FSB announced in early June 2023 that intelligence agencies were using devices from an American manufacturer to spy on Russians, including Russian diplomats. The service said that this uses a virus in the software - it was discovered by the FSB on several thousand iPhones.
Devices based on iOS operating systems, as well as Android, are already prohibited from being used for official purposes by employees of the presidential administration, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier in 2023. A similar ban on the iPhone appeared in the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The representative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in a conversation with Vedomosti on July 4, 2023, explained that this measure was introduced in order to ensure the protection of information.
Among the alternatives, smartphones on Russian OS are also proposed, for example, on Aurora, which is being developed by Open Mobile Platform, a subsidiary of Rostelecom. Previously, this platform was called Sailfish Mobile OS Rus. But all Russian OS are united by one thing - the absence of most of the popular applications, notes CNews.[2]
2022: Links to dating services and casinos found in the code of the CEC website
In mid-August 2022, it became known that links to dating services and casinos were found in the code of the CEC of Russia website. According to Golos analyst (the movement is included in the register of foreign agents) Ivan Shukshin, we are talking about the FingerpringJS library, which makes up the user's "fingerprint."
According to Shukshin, CEC sites use advertisements to identify the user - links to dating sites, Internet casinos, etc. - and then track the actions of the ad blocker. Such links are not externally visible to the user, they are in the site code, the programmer explained.
The CEC told RBC that the open source library FingerpringJS, which has a user definition function, is used "to exclude the CAPTCHA request from" legitimate users. "
| | The library code contains the addresses of a number of "dubious" Internet resources. They are used to determine whether the user's browser uses ad blocking tools. The transition to these resources, downloading any data from them or transferring user data to them is in no case carried out, the CEC said. | |
Ivan Begtin, director of the Information Culture ANO, noted that the FingerpringJS code is used mainly to protect corporate secrets. But government agencies usually do not resort to it. The expert believes that the use of the code by the Central Election Commission impedes the independent analysis of election results and the control of citizens over them.
According to RBC, electoral experts asked the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, to stop using technology on the commission's website, which sharply complicated work with the resource. According to their calculations, to analyze data throughout Russia, you need to take the CAPTCHA test about 100 thousand times, spending about 30 million seconds on it, that is, almost a year.[3]
2017: Boris Titov suggested using electronic ballots in presidential elections
In April 2017, business ombudsman Boris Titov took the initiative to introduce electronic voting. According to him, the use of this technology is possible in federal elections by March 2018, when the presidential elections should be held. According to Titov, by this time the blockchain voting technology can be tested in a couple of regions.
The "Growth Party" domestically tests electronic voting systems based on the Reconciled Register of Operations (DLT) technology. The question is how, subject to the constitutional right of citizens to secret ballot, to certify each individual vote of the voter. This approach to the electoral system in the future could save people from voting at their place of residence and eliminate the problem of electoral fraud. The party plans to submit all its developments to the Central Election Commission (CEC) for consideration.
Pamfilova Ella, head of the CEC, noted that this proposal is interesting and can be implemented. However, she also noted, the introduction of innovations in the electoral process in such a short time is possible only if the laws do not need to be changed - and technical capabilities allow.
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