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By Aynur Karimova

Baku Telephone Communications PA and Aztelekom LLC have completed the installation of webcams at polling stations where Azerbaijani citizens will vote for their candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Baku Telephone Communications told Trend that webcams have been installed in more than 1,000 polling stations in the regions of Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, while some 294 webcams have been installed in polling stations in the various electoral districts of Baku.

The webcams are currently being tested for minor issues.

An optical link will be used to transmit the video to observers on Election Day.

The voting process will be streamed online, and it will give voters an opportunity to monitor the results coming from polling stations.

Polling stations will also be provided with reliable telephone and Internet access.

Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan are scheduled for November 1. Preparations for this year’s elections are in full swing. Campaigning will begin on October 9 and will last until 8:00 a.m. October 31, exactly 23 days before voting as required by law.

According to the law of Azerbaijan "On freedom of assembly," some 128 public and 128 private locations have been designated for candidates to meet with voters in 117 electoral districts throughout the country.

As of October 5, the number of candidates registered by the CEC to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections reached 1,054 people.

Also, 1,823 people appealed to the CEC to register their candidacies, some 572 of which were put forward by political parties, 62 from the “Azadlig-2015” political bloc, three from initiative groups, while 1,186 of them are self-nominated candidates.

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