Members of election commission had to flee from elderly elector in Orsha district
A funny incident happened in the village of
Prydniaprouye in the Orsha district. Members of a precinct election commission
came there with a portable ballot box for home voting. As it was found, many
electors didn't ask for such “care”.
When the PEC members came to the yard of pensioner Valadzko together with an
observer from the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Vasil Berasneu and resolutely
proposed that she voted at home, she got confused as she didn't intend to vote
at all! Without hesitation the woman tore out a plank from her fence and burst
at the unwelcome guests. The following events reminded a scene from the Soviet
movie “Dog Barbos and an unusual race”, the commission members barely managed
to flee the indignant old lady.
Such cases haven't been ever registered before. Vasil Berasneu thinks that the
total forcing to voting starts meeting an active protest among ordinary people.
“Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”
