News on the topic: elections-2014
28.03.2014 CEC: visual count of voters has no legal value
Observer Siarhei Housha sent an appeal to the CEC to report that there were irregularities in the counting of votes at polling station No. 43 in Baranavichy. Namely, the number of voters (by visual counting) did not match the number of ballots issued by the election commission.
26.03.2014 Baranavichy observer asks CEC to address violations at polling station
Observer Siarhei Housha sent a complaint to the CEC Chairperson Lidziya Yarmoshyna to appeal against violations of the Electoral Code by members of the polling station election commission No. 43 in Baranavichy, which was chaired by Mikalai Zhukouski.
26.03.2014 Ex-candidate in Khotsimsk appeals detention and election violations
On March 25, Valery Karankevich, a candidate for the Mahiliou Regional Council of Deputies in Khotsimsk constituency No. 54 and a candidate for the District Council of Khotsimsk in constituency No. 13, sent a complaint to the Prosecutor's Offices of Khotsimsk district and Mahiliou region, as well as the election commissions at various levels.
25.03.2014 Zhodzina City Election Commission refuses to report voting results
An independent observer in Zhodzina, Aliaksei Lapitski, says that Zhodzina has not seen such a high voter turnout in any of the previous local elections. Meanwhile, in terms of visibility the campaign was practically unnoticed.
25.03.2014 Observer in Baranavichy asks prosecutors to check “records” of home voting
On 24 March, an independent observer Viktar Syrytsa sent a complaint to the Baranavichy Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office to appeal against a violation of the Electoral Code by members of the election commission at polling station No. 49. In his complaint, Viktar Syrytsa says that the final report showed extremely high percentage of home voters.
25.03.2014 Babruisk observers file complaints
A number of polling stations in Babruisk, where representatives of local democratic forces were running, were visited by unauthorized persons on the main voting day, including senior officials: City Executive Committee Chairman Dzmitry Bonakhau, his deputy Aliaksandr Markachou and others. Independent observers say that they openly gave orders to the election commission chairman.
24.03.2014 Results of local elections: 88% districts uncontested
The election observation campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections" have summed up the results of this year’s local councils elections.
24.03.2014 Three Fair World activists elected members of village councils
The Left Party "Fair World" will have three deputies in the rural councils of Orsha district, Vitsebsk region, namely Anatol Hotsman, Yury Kurhanau and Zhanna Frankova, Radio Free Europe’s Belarus service reports quoting the Party’s Deputy Chairman Valery Ukhnaliou.
24.03.2014 Rerun needed in 7 constituencies in Belarus
18,809 deputies have been elected. The turnout was 77.3% – 5,391,103 people voted.
24.03.2014 Monitoring Report on Local Elections of the 27th Convocation
The observation was carried out by activists of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center "Viasna" within the frames of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections".
23.03.2014 Freelance photographer not allowed to shoot at polling station in Barysau
Valiantsina Ziankova was going to cover the process of voting at polling station No. 59 in Barysau district.
23.03.2014 Police detain candidate in Khotsimsk
Valery Karankevich, a candidate for the Mahiliou Regional Council running in Khotsimsk constituency No. 54 and at the same time a candidate for the District Council of Khotsimsk, detained by police at about 8 p.m. and taken to the local police department.
23.03.2014 Observer in Homel denied access to information and removed from polling station
At the Homel-based polling station No. 2 of Navabelitskaya constituency, Chairman of the election commission refused to provide information to observer Kanstantsin Zhukouski. The election official, Andrei Charnou, according to the observer, behaved "brutal".
23.03.2014 Unsealed ballot box found at polling station in Brest
On March 22, at polling station No. 19 in Brest observers found an opened ballot box. According to the electoral law, voting results should be found invalid due to such violations, but none of the officials came to the polling station to fix the violation, BelaPAN said.
23.03.2014 BCD observer stripped of accreditation in Minsk
In Minsk, an activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, an observer in the campaign "Right to Choice" Valeryia Charnamortsava has been stripped of accreditation at polling station No. 25 in constituency No. 44, the BCD press-service reports.
