Russia's electoral board moves to abolish preliminary voting | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire: “Russia’s Central Elections Commission has proposed that preliminary voting, where those who cannot vote on election day cast their ballots early, be abolished at all levels, a CEC official said Tuesday.
Maya Grishina said the CEC had submitted the proposal to the executive office of the Russian president.
The initiative comes in response to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s state-of-the-nation address last November where he said preliminary voting on the local level should be terminated as a source of potential violations.”