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Over 450,000 people use website broadcasting elections in PFD

13:33 | 21.03.2018 | Society

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Penza, 21 March 2018. PenzaNews. Over 2 million Russians including more than 450,000 people in the Volga Federal District, which includes the Penza region, used the website Нашвыбор2018.рф during presidential elections in the Russian Federation from 23.00 Moscow time on March 17 till the moment the counting of votes finished in western regions of the country. This was reported by the press service of the Penza branch of PJSC Rostelecom.

Over 450,000 people use website broadcasting elections in PFD

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"There was no need to register to watch the video stream, it was enough to select a polling station and to open a broadcast window using a standard media player," the company reminded.

The press service specified that during the peak load the website served up to 331,000 users simultaneously and the total time of broadcast amounted to 1.2 million hours.

"To support all users of the portal, including representatives of the precinct electoral commissions and territorial election commissions, the company provided an intelligent number: 8-800-301-00-55. During the work of video surveillance almost 12,000 users called the hotline. In addition, when logged in using an account of the public services website, users could send requests to technical support directly from the online resource, which executed the broadcast. During this time Rostelecom received over 2,000 such messages," the branch said.

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