Monitors to audit Moscow online vote after outcry - Inferfax

FILE PHOTO: A man looks on a screen showing polling stations, at the headquarters of Russia's Central Election Commission in Moscow, Russia September 19, 2021. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - State election monitors will audit the results of online voting in Moscow that swung the outcome in several districts in favour of the ruling United Russia party in last week's parliamentary election, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.

The election was the first major Russian vote where people could vote online in some locations instead of using paper ballots. About 2 million Muscovites voted online and some 1.7 million cast paper ballots.