The recommendations, published through the Smart Voting bot and on Kats's team website, cover both the party-list vote and single-mandate districts. On party lists, voters are advised to back any party that clears the 5 percent threshold except United Russia. The Smart Voting bot states that the Communist Party (KPRF), New People and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) have a chance of passing the threshold.
District-level recommendations are available through the Smart Voting bot or on Kats's team website, which compiles information on every district along with arguments for the recommended candidate.
In Moscow, the bot's responses favor Yabloko candidates in most districts. They include Sergei Mitrokhin in the Central district, Sergei Parkhomenko in Orekhovo-Borisovsky and German Chunikhin in Nagatinsky. In Chertanovsky district the recommendation goes to Vera Ganza of the KPRF. In Babushkinsky district the bot names Yulia Kuznetsova.
A Just Russia is not included among the recommended alternatives to United Russia.
The Anti-War Committee also published its own recommendations. Its position is that a boycott of the vote is justified only in the occupied territories, since anything else would amount to recognizing the annexation. In the rest of Russia the committee advocates taking part in the vote. If there is an anti-war candidate, voters should back that candidate; if there is none but there is a candidate who does not support the war, they should vote for that person; if there is no such candidate, they should spoil their ballot.
Novaya Gazeta Europe previously issued instructions for voters. An independent electoral expert advises avoiding remote electronic voting where possible because of limited opportunities for independent monitoring. For those voting outside their registered address through the Mobile Voter system, the expert recommends checking that they have been removed from the list at their previous polling station, since in theory a person may not be struck off the register at their place of registration, creating the possibility of a second vote being cast in their name.
According to The Bell, residents of 33 regions will be able to vote online. For Muscovites abroad, access to the Moscow platform may be difficult because of restrictions on Russian resources. Tests by the Teplitsa of Social Technologies found that the subdomains login.mos.ru and my.mos.ru failed to open in five of seven connections checked from abroad.
Applications to vote outside one's registered address can be submitted through Gosuslugi, a territorial election commission or an MFC until September 14.