News on the topic: elections-2015
19.10.2015 Hlusk: CEC rejects complaint by independent observer
Ihar Kiryn, an observer from the town of Hlusk, has received an answer from the Central Election Commission to his request asking to invalidate voting results at polling station No. 2.
19.10.2015 Brest observers fail to appeal electoral violations
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.
16.10.2015 Salihorsk prosecutors bounce report on rigged voter turnout
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.
15.10.2015 Sluck Prosecutor's Office ignores report on coercion to vote early
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.
15.10.2015 Hlusk: Observer asks to invalidate voting results
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.
15.10.2015 Brest: There were 1,200 voters on the list and 1,543 voted. Observers file complaint.
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.
15.10.2015 Elections in Homieĺ region: “CEC figures are simply ridiculous when compared with reality”
During the presidential election, everything should be boiling and we did not see much of the activity by candidates or their proxies in Homieĺ.
14.10.2015 Electoral process through the eyes of observers in Hrodna
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.
14.10.2015 Baranavičy: Observer files complaints about fraud by city election commission
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.
14.10.2015 Observers criticize presidential elections at press-conference in Vilnius
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.
14.10.2015 UN rights expert airs doubts about Belarus election result
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.
14.10.2015 Observers in Brest: “In fact, there was no counting of votes”
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.
13.10.2015 Dead resident of Slonim is still in voter lists
A resident of Slonim, Uladzimir Litsvin, was very surprised at receiving an official invitation to vote, received by his mother, Hana Khilimonchyk.
13.10.2015 Hrodna TECs seem to have ended their work ahead of time
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.
13.10.2015 Babrujsk observers file complaints to prosecutor's office and CEC
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.
