The Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation is preparing for elections in the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions on the single voting day on September 10, Russia’s TASS news agency reported citing CEC chairperson Ella Pamfilova.   “We’re preparing (for the elections), but the decision on holding them will be made by the regions; we arranged intensive training for regional election commissions late last year,” Pamfilova said.  “We are providing methodological assistance to them, because to hold elections at the regional level they must adopt all necessary legal acts in the first place.”   Commenting on security, she underlined that nobody would engage in risky ventures by holding elections in case of threat to voters’ lives. “Elections are still a long way off. I have no doubts that much might change by then,” she said adding that if things went as planned, the elections would be held on schedule.   CEC deputy chairman Nikolay Bulayev said that the Commission cooperates with the Interior Ministry as it works with voters from the new regions. Many of them currently stay at temporary accommodation centers or receive treatment at hospitals; some have lost their documents.   “We have a database of the people with Russian citizenship who live there,” Bulayev said. ”We know how many there are and their personal details.” This database already contains information on several million people, he said.   Commenting on the boundaries of the new regions during the election, the CEC official said that a federal law designates their borders and that funding would be provided for the elections across all this territory.   Russia holds election on Single Voting Day on September 10. Reports as of late December 2022 said that more than 4,000 election campaigns had been planned for some 34,000 deputy seats and elective positions. Regional leaders will be elected in 20 Russian provinces. The Donbass Republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions will hold election campaigns for the first time as Russian constituent entities.   On January 19, the LPR parliament approved the law on election/referendum commissions in the Republic. LPR Acting Head Leonid Pasechnik said that the document envisioned the opportunity to hold remote e-voting.   The Lugansk People’s Republic, Donetsk People’s Republic and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions acceded to Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referenda.*i*v