Russia’s online voting system briefly crashed on Friday, the first day of the March 15-17 presidential race, with independent election observers saying the likely cause was “huge numbers” of workers being forced to vote. “The system has temporarily switched to electronic line management due to the unprecedented number of people wishing to vote online,”read a message on the e-voting platform. Stanislav Andreychuk, a member at the independent election watchdog Golos, said a “huge number” of workers had been pressured to cast their votes in the first hours of the election. “The remote electronic …