Hackers have made a DDos attack on the website of the Public chamber of the Russian Federation and the project site is fake.no. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday the head of the expert-Advisory group of the public chamber on public control over remote e-voting Alexander Malkevich.
"the Evening of 30 June, after the official end of the reception of votes online voter, the website of the Public chamber of the Russian Federation was attacked by hackers, who managed for some time to disturb the normal operation. This is very similar to the wages of those members of the house interfere to wreak havoc during voting, especially given the "fall" of the site the fake.not this time," he said.
In his opinion, the attack is related to active OP Russia by exposing fakes on the all-Russian voting on the amendments to the Constitution. The members of the chamber actively refute the false information published on the website "Map of violations at elections" movement "Voice" and perhaps this explains the incidents of attacks, he added.
"As I mentioned earlier, we have recorded more than 5 thousand of fakes on constitutional amendments, many of the most resonant, placed and promoted the project "Map violations" "Voices". July 1, at the crucial day of voting, I think the fakes will go almost hourly. Probably the hacker’s goal was to deprive the Public chamber of their own online sites for denials", – said Malkevich.
A nationwide vote on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation was launched on 25 June on the whole territory of Russia. The main day of voting, according to the decree of President Vladimir Putin’s July 1, however, the Russians were able to vote and in the period from 25 to 30 June. This is done to counter the spread of coronavirus infection.
According to the decision of Russia’s Central election Commission, the polling stations are open from 25 June to 1 July from 08:00 to 20:00 local time in all regions of the Russian Federation, the counting of votes will take place after 20:00 local time on 1 July across all seven days of the vote.
In addition to the vote before primary day, provided the voting outside the premises for voting (including adjoining areas), non-home voting, remote electronic voting in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod region and vote on the location through the mechanism of "Mobile voter".
