News for April 2010
25.04.2010 Babruisk: voters allowed voting without IDs
Babruisk human rights activists report a number of cases when voters were allowed casting their ballots without producing their IDs. Besides, members of local election commissions have reportedly advised voters to vote for their relatives.
25.04.2010 Masty: candidate’s proxy tuned out of polling station
Aliaksandr Pudaukin, proxy to Ales Zarembiuk, running for the Masty District Council, was not allowed to enter Kastrychnitski lopping station #2 by the local election commission. The officials said he could not be present at the station. Only after Mr. Pudaukin phoned the district election commission, he was allowed to observe the voting process.
25.04.2010 Minsk: chair of election commission tried to turn out candidate’s proxy out of polling station
Today, at about 12 a.m., Andrei Paprotski, proxy to the UCP candidate Fiodar Maslennikau, was approached by chair of the election commission and asked to leave the observers’ table at polling station #48 in Minsk’s Chyhunachnaya constituency. The official said a proxy could not be an observer.
25.04.2010 Hrodna: registered independent observer not allowed visiting polling station
A blatant violation of election observers’ rights was recorded at polling station #110 in Hrodna. The officially registered independent observer Dzina Paulava was not allowed observing the voting by the local election commission. The officials argued that the observer needed an additional permit by the superior election commission.
25.04.2010 Mahiliou regional election commission blames hackers for technical fault
According to the Mahiliou Regional Election Commission, the official web-site of Mahiliou regional executive committee was hacked, resulting in the wrong date of the commission’s meeting being published on the site.
25.04.2010 Observing network expanded
The participants of the project ‘Election Observation: Theory and Practice, EOTP’ have been registered as observers at various polling stations and are going to assist in collecting information for the final report of the campaign ‘Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections’.
25.04.2010 Mazyr: chair of local election commission refuses to provide information to opposition candidates
The chair of local election commission at polling station #43 of Paleskaya constituency #43 refused to provide information on the progress of the election to candidate Uladzimir Tseliapun, member of the Belarusian Popular Front and proxy to Franak Viachorka, both running for the Homel Regional Council.
25.04.2010 Third of Belarusians opt for early voting
Almost one third of the electors have chosen the early voting option during the elections to the local councils of deputies of the 26th convocation, BelTA learned from representatives of the Central Commission for Elections and National Referendums.
24.04.2010 Salihorsk: ‘Kidnapping’ vs. ‘Young Front’ candidate
Candidate Aliaksei Valabuyeu has become a real headache for the local ideologists. Having finished with the promotion campaign of his rival, colonel Zainchkouski, the local media proceeded to indirect criticism aimed at Valabuyeu.
24.04.2010 Salihorsk: colonel is not afraid of punishment for law violations
In the morning, posters of a pro-governmental candidate, colonel Valery Zainchkouski, were posted on all houses of constituency #13. His rival, oppositional candidate Aliaksei Valabuyeu, considers it as a reaction to the wide agitation campaign conducted by members of his electoral team.
24.04.2010 Minsk: candidate Ales Lahvinets demands to cancel elections at Sukharauskaya constituency #30
The candidate lodged complaints with the procuracy, the Minsk City Election Commission and the Central Election Commission, asking to cancel the elections at the Sukharauskaya constituency #30 because of gross and purposeful violations of the Constitution and the electoral legislation by state officials.
24.04.2010 Babruisk: Xeroxed leaflets are distributed in support of pro-governmental candidate
Aliaksandr Kazlou works at the open stock company Belshyna, the largest enterprise of Babruisk, as deputy director on ideology, and is running for the regional council of deputies at the Minskaya election constituency #10. His rival Viachaslau Sheleh, a member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, noticed suspicious agitation leaflets being spread all over the constituency.
24.04.2010 Homel: precinct commission refuses to hang out protocols of early voting
In Homel, precinct commission #46 of the Studentskaya constituency refused to obey the demand of Kanstantsin Zhukouski, a candidate for the Homel Regional Council of Deputies, to hang out the protocol of early voting or familiarize him with it. ‘When I came to the precinct, there was no protocol there. As I found out, they hadn’t composed it at all, as a member of the commission started filling it in my presence. I called the police, but they didn’t pay any reaction to the violation. I phoned to the Central Election Commission, but there’s still no protocol, though the CEC obliged the commissions to hang out the reports for one day,’ explained Mr. Zhukouski.
24.04.2010 Horki district: headmistress forces teachers to vote for ‘worthy’ candidate
According to information of teachers of the Ausiankava secondary school, the headmistress Liudmila Bandarenka forced them to vote early at the general assembly of the school.
24.04.2010 Kirau district: candidates are running unopposed, but somebody needs large turnout
There are three such candidates in the Kirau district: Valery Babaryka is running for the Mahiliou Regional Council of Deputies at the Kirauskaya election constituency #10; Natallia Vasilieuskaya, shop manager – for the Kirau District Council at the Staupitskaya election constituency #22; and Mikhail Bautovich, Chairperson of the Liubonichy outpatient clinic – at the Siarheyevitskaya election constituency #24.
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