News on the topic: elections-2014
23.03.2014 Journalist denied accreditation at polling station in Brest
As reported by Inna Khomich, from the start of early voting she worked as an observer at a polling station located in Brest School No. 2. When the observer was not allowed to photograph a voting protocol (which is a violation of law), she showed the Election Commission members her ID of a correspondent of the Brestski Kurier newspaper and said she would stay at the polling station, including as a journalist.
23.03.2014 Observer removed from polling station in Haradok
Activist of the movement "For Freedom" Leanid Haravy was forced to leave the polling station in the town of Haradok, Vitsebsk region. On March 22, he was shown a protocol of the election commissions’ meeting, saying that he was deprived of accreditation for gross violations of the electoral law.
23.03.2014 Baranavichy court refuses to consider candidate’s complaint
On March 21, Judge Zhanna Kapacheuskaya of the Baranavichy District and City considered an urgent complaint by candidate Mikalai Charnavus against unlawful actions by the Chairperson of the Election Commission in constituency No. 21 Larysa Antonava.
22.03.2014 Monitoring Report on the stage of election campaigning
Monitoring of the elections to the Local Councils of Deputies of the Republic of Belarus of the 27th Convocation is conducted by activists of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center "Viasna" within the frames of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections".
21.03.2014 Third day of early voting: turnout discrepancies growing
On March 20, the third day of early voting in the local council elections, observers of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections" registered a number of violations: the most common of which is a significant overstatement of voter turnout as compared to observers’ estimations.
21.03.2014 Another BCD observer stripped of accreditation
Andrei Dabravolski, an activist of the organizing committee of the party "Belarusian Christian Democracy", has been deprived of an observer’s accreditation in Minsk polling station No. 52 of constituency No. 20, BCD’s press-service reports. The activist has been involved in the campaign "Right to Choice".
21.03.2014 Election officials order to destroy BPF candidate’s leaflets
A BPF candidate Illia Dabratvor has received a decision from Minsk’s Zavodskaya District Election Commission issuing a warning, after the election officials saw signs of incitement to ethnic hatred between Russians and Belarusians in the candidate’s election leaflets. The back side of the leaflets had information about political prisoners, which was viewed as slandering officials.
21.03.2014 CEC: results of vote count should be separated by type of voting
The results of counting of votes for each type of voting should be announced separately, says a response received by Biaroza observers from Chairperson of the Central Election Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna.
21.03.2014 Astravets court refuses to restore registration of only independent candidate
Elections in Astravets district will be absolutely uncompetitive, after the District Court dismissed the complaint by local civil society activist Mikalai Ulasevich, the last pro-democratic candidate running in the region.
21.03.2014 Candidate in Baranavichy complains about ban on radio speech
A candidate in Baranavichy, Mikalai Charnavus sent an urgent appeal to the court to challenge unlawful actions by the Chairperson of the Election Commission in constituency No. 21 Larysa Antonava. In his complaint, the candidate says that he is at a disadvantage with other candidates, as he has prepared a speech on the radio, but the Election Commission has done everything to block his appearance.
21.03.2014 Cases of forced voting registered in Mahiliou
Students and residents of dormitories in Mahiliou are being forced to vote early, local observers say.
21.03.2014 Students in Orsha vote under supervision
Polling station No. 6 in the Orsha-based constituency No. 8 was visited by a woman who asked the Election Commission for permission to see the students of a local medical college vote, says observer Yauhen Anishchanka.
21.03.2014 Voters in Vitsebsk taught how to vote
A number of voting booths in Vitsebsk now have sample ballots ticked just in the places where the “right” candidates’ names are printed in the real ballots, says local observer Vadzim Kuzmin.
21.03.2014 Candidate in Mikashevichy isolated from voters
Chairman of the Mikashevichy Town Executive Committee Anatol Davydovich has been blocking the election campaign of an independent candidate for the Town Council Leanid Dubanosau.
20.03.2014 Early voting: coercion, exaggerations and pressure on observers
During the first two days of the early voting campaign in the elections to the local councils, observers of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections" documented numerous and diverse violations: there were facts of coercion to vote early, inflating the number of voters, and instances of pressure on the observers.
