
CEC head Ella Pamfilova said that at 333 polling stations abroad, 6,954 ballots were invalidated, which is less than 2.5 percent of the total.
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The head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, announced data on invalid ballots at foreign polling stations.
At foreign polling stations during the elections to the State Duma, 6,954 ballots were declared invalid. Their number was revealed by the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, RIA Novosti reports.
“At 333 polling stations abroad, 6,954 ballots were declared invalid,” Pamfilova noted.
According to her, this figure is less than 2.5 percent of all ballots removed from voting boxes abroad.
Earlier it was reported that more than 36.8 thousand ballots at 20 polling stations in 12 regions of Russia were declared invalid. In addition, 17 members of precinct election commissions in four regions were suspended from work and removed from polling stations on voting days.

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