17.12.2010 Vitsebsk observers kicked out of polling stations for registering violations

According to Antanina Pivanos, observer at Vitsebsk polling station # 21, the local election commission members have repeatedly impaired observation, prohibiting taking photos at the station.

17.12.2010 Mahiliou observers report numerous cases of enforced voting

According to Andrei Dvihun, observer at Mahiliou polling station # 42, over 25 per cent of voters have cast their ballots within the first three days of early vote. The high number of early voters is due to the enforced voting of students residing in a hostel within the constituency.

17.12.2010 Mahiliou soldier admits he was forced to vote early

According to Liubou Padrabinkina, observer at polling station # 114, Raman Ivanchanka, soldier of Mahiliou military unit # 6713, made a public statement on enforced early vote of all the servicemen of the unit, supervised by his commander.

17.12.2010 The seal on the ballot box has moved suddenly

Human rights defenders do not exclude, that the ballot box has been disclosed.

In Brest secondary school No.30 there are two polling stations – No.111 and 113. According to the words of the observer Andrey Maher, who was present at the sealing of the ballot boxes for early voting on both polling stations, it was noted by him two days later that on the ballot box installed on the polling station No.111, the seal and the paper with the signatures of the election commission members are situated in another place than in the first day of the early voting.

17.12.2010 Preliminary Monitoring Report on the THIRD Day of Early Voting

Minsk, 10:00 am, 16 December, – “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” campaign presents its preliminary monitoring report on observation of the third day of early voting (16 December). The observation is being conducted by 600 short-term and 80 long-term observers at 300 polling stations throughout Belarus.

16.12.2010 Enforced early vote (observation facts)

According to data provided by the ‘Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections’ analysts, 14.3 % of observers have witnessed enforced early vote in its various forms. Here are some facts abut the reported violations.

16.12.2010 Officials demand 68 % turnout for Lukashenka in Minsk

According to information received by the ‘Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections’ campaign, Minsk authorities were ordered to provide 68 % voter turnout for Aliaksandr Lukashenka in the Serabranka district. The information was provided by a member of election commission # 20.

16.12.2010 Mahiliou: adding of ballots registered at certain stations

According to a number of members of Mahiliou local election commission, election officials have been engaged in adding ballots to ballot boxes during lunch break and immediately before the end of the day, when the slot is sealed for the night.

16.12.2010 Observers claim they caught their former teachers in gerrymander

Observers registered the fact when one elector voted twice in Slutsk election centre #12 on December 15.

16.12.2010 How to throw ballots into a sealed ballot box (Video)

“Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” observers at the polling station No.31 of Savetsky district of Minsk have fixed how it’s possible to throw the ballots into a sealed ballot box.

16.12.2010 Valyantsina Svyatskaya: “Early voting is new songs to old tunes”

Early voting continues in Belarus. Columns of students march to poling stations.

There’s a queue of cadets of Academy of Interior Affairs at pollig station #74 in Minsk, while students of Belarusian State Pedagogical University are asked to vote at a voting station in Shchors Street, not at the university in order it won’t be seen when exactly they vote.

16.12.2010 Preliminary Monitoring Report on the Second Day of Early Voting

10:00 am, 16 December, Minsk – “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” campaign presents its preliminary monitoring report on observation of the second day of early voting (15 December). The observation is being conducted by 600 short-term and 80 long-term observers at 300 polling stations throughout Belarus.

16.12.2010 Mahilioukhimvalakno: you must vote early as opposition prepares terrorist acts

Members of the Young Belarus organization Pavel Prakapovich, Mikalai Stseshyts and Viktar Yazubchyts recorded a violation of the electoral legislation at a polling station in the Tsentralny district of Minsk.

16.12.2010 Minsk: commissions manipulate the turnout indicators

According to an election observer Pavel Dabravolski, precinct election commission No.53 in Minsk overstates the turnout. Dwellers of four dormitories of Minsk Pedagogic University are registered there. According to the commission, 630 people voted, whereas the observer counted only 570. Only 3 of them weren’t students.

16.12.2010 Is vague determination of electoral procedures just a mistake of Central Election Commissions?

The first day of early voting showed the absence of a distinctive determination of a number of electoral procedures, including the keeping of the ballot boxes, the sealing of the electoral precincts and the stay of the police guards.