Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections

A number of independent observers in Brest have received negative replies to their complaints about alleged violations of the election legislation, says Sviatlana Aliasiuk, representative of the regional office of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada). The complaints mainly concerned the vote counting procedure.

According to the Salihorsk District Prosecutor Aleh Audzei, falsification of voter turnout at polling station No. 24 should be addressed by the district election commission, refusing to take measures of prosecutor's response in this regard.

The Sluck District Prosecutor's Office has reportedly investigated allegations of coercion to vote early used towards the employees of the children's sanatorium Sluch, but found no grounds to intervene.

Ihar Kiryn, an observer at polling station No. 2 in the town of Hlusk, has written to the head of the Central Election Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna asking her invalidate voting results at the polling station.

Liudmila and Aliaksandr Dzenisenkas, activists of the Belarusian Party of the Left "Fair World", have filed a complaint against violations of election legislation at polling station No. 41 in Brest, where they worked as observers.

During the presidential election, everything should be boiling and we did not see much of the activity by candidates or their proxies in Homieĺ.

Observation of both early voting and the main election day in Hrodna has clearly shown that voter turnout at the polling stations where the observers counted the voters throughout the five days of early voting was 20-23%, which is considerably less than the number of early voters at the polling stations where there were no independent observers.

Cheslau Huzouski, an observer from the Party of the Left "Fair World", has sent complaints to the Central Election Commission and the Brest Regional Election Commission, as well as to the Baranavičy Interdistrict Prosecutor’s Office to report fraud and falsification of documents by the chair of the city territorial election commission Tamara Shukala.

Elections in Belarus were undemocratic, non-transparent and non-free, said Belarusian activists who observed the presidential election during a press conference held on October 13 at the Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius.

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. human rights expert is raising doubts about the re-election of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, saying he garnered the highest margin of victory in any election in Europe since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.

According to observers in Brest, the procedure of vote counting is the key issue that did not allow them to consider the elections open and transparent.

A resident of Slonim, Uladzimir Litsvin, was very surprised at receiving an official invitation to vote, received by his mother, Hana Khilimonchyk.

In the evening of October 12 several Hrodna observers didn't manage to file complaints to the territorial election commission of the Kastryčnicki district of Hrodna, as well as to the Hrodna Regional Territorial Election Commission.

Babrujsk observers of the campaign “Right to Elect” file resulting complaints to the TEC, prosecutor's office and CEC. The majority of the complaints concern the overestimation of the turnout and the impossibility to observe the vote counting.

“During the voting at polling station No. 6 I took my ballot with me. However, in the final protocol of the precinct commission it is stated that the number of the ballots issued to electors is equal to the number of the ballots in the ballot box”, says Aliaksei Kolchyn, who observed the elections at polling station No. 56.