16.12.2010 Pinsk: anomalous number of early votes

Electoral precinct #30 in Pinsk shows an unusually high turnout in comparison to other precincts. The precinct is situated in Pinsk Medical College. 1,055 electors are registered there. 211 of them (or 20% of the total number) cast their votes on 14 December.

16.12.2010 Baranavichy: international observer stopped mysterious movements of ballot box

Electoral precinct No.28 is situated on the third store of the administrative building of the joint-stock company Truck Autopark No.4 in Hruntovaya Street, 47. However, after the end of the voting at 7 p.m. on 14 December, the ballot box for early voting was carried out of the electoral precinct and taken to Telman Street, 102 to be stored there.

16.12.2010 Vitsebsk: parental meetings are arranged at schools to make parents vote early

The teachers of the Vitsebsk secondary school #17 announced that a parental meeting would take place on 17 December and parents must come there with their passports.

16.12.2010 Barysau: workers of BATE plant ask for notices confirming their early voting

The observers of the For Freedom movement and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee who observed the early election at precinct election commission #7, located in secondary school #16 of the town of Barysau, witnessed a strange thing.

16.12.2010 Hrodna: commission chairperson threatens to send observers away

An interesting incident was registered at electoral precinct #4 , located in the House of Creative Work of Children and Juniors in the Leninski district of Hrodna. The Chairperson of the precinct electoral commission warned the independent observers Raman Baranouski and Liudmila Stsiarnitskaya for counting the voters who were coming to the precinct.

16.12.2010 Polatsk: soldiers come to early voting in columns

Facts of pressurization of voters during the first day of the early voting were registered in Polatsk.

16.12.2010 Members of Young Belarus witness bringing of ballot box out of electoral precinct

A ballot box was taken to another room during the lunchtime.

Members of Young Belarus organization Pavel Prakapovich, Mikalai Stseshyts and Viktar Yazubchyts recorded a violation of the electoral legislation at a polling station in the Tsentralny district of Minsk.

16.12.2010 Hrodna: police disrupt picket against early voting

The members of Uladzimir Niakliayeu's electoral team from Hrodna Aleh Kalinkou and Kiryl Semianchuk held a picket against early voting near Hrodna State Agrarian University.

16.12.2010 Minsk: activists of Citizen hand out symbolic writs to members of election commissions

Activists of the civil campaign Citizen started going round the precinct election commissions in Minsk. They plan to remind each of the 9,000 members of these commissions about the criminal responsibility for incorrect counting of votes and other violations of the electoral legislation.

15.12.2010 Barysau: 24-hour observation is not permitted

Observers are not permitted to observe ballot boxes at the election precincts of Barysau on a 24-hour basis. As said by the coordinator of the For Fair Election-2010 campaign in Minsk region Mikalai Pakhabau, the commissions even refused to register new observers at one of them. told about this.

15.12.2010 Preliminary Monitoring Report on the First Day of Early Voting

10:00, 15 December, Minsk – “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” campaign presents its preliminary monitoring report on observation of the first day of early voting (14 December). The observation is being carried out by 600 short-term and 80 long-term observers at 300 polling stations throughout Belarus.

14.12.2010 Valiantsina Sviatskaya still hasn’t received an answer on merits of her complaint

On 30 November observer Sviatskaya addressed the General Procuracy with an appeal concerning violations of provisions of the Electoral Code and other laws by a member of the Maskouski District Election Commission of Minsk A.Kudziarmayeu.

14.12.2010 Hrodna region: ‘terrorist acts’ of opposition as the last argument for early voting

The facts of forced early voting have been registered in several districts of the Hrodna region. For instance, 12 of the people who are serving their terms of corrective labor in the open penitentiary establishment in the Masty district (not far from the town of Lunna), were taken to the Lunna election precinct in the morning of 14 December.

14.12.2010 Rechytsa: slits of ballot boxes won’t be taped

Chyrvonastsiazhnaya precinct election commission #28 in Rechytsa held a sitting on the eve of the early voting. Its member Siarhei Hapaniuk, representative of the Belarusian Popular Front, was informed about it in advance. However, he was told that the sitting would take place at 3 a.m. on 13 December.

14.12.2010 Mahiliou: OSCE observers weren’t let to attend sitting of election commission for coming 2 minutes after its beginning

According to the human rights defender Barys Bukhel, on 13 December the OSCE observers who came to the sitting of the Mahiliou Region Election Commission two minutes after its beginning weren’t allowed to attend it.