Voters Forced to Engage in Advance Voting Against Will :: Charter'97 :: News

Belarusian Helsinki Committee receives data on the regime’s attempts to force the voters to engage in the early voting. Sergei Kolpakov, trustee of the candidate Valery Schukin reports that on February 26 the polling office in the constituency #10 was visited by the director of the dorm of the pedagogical university Nadezhda Lisovskaya, who arbitrarily checked the lists of voters, found out who of the students voted before time and who abstained from casting their votes. Shortly after that incident many students turned up at the ballot-station. In private conversations the students confessed that they voted ahead of time from fear of administration’s retaliation.

Candidate into the Polotsk town hall Valery Schukin assumes that Nadezhda Lisovskaya violated art.191 of the Belarusian Penal code: “violating citizen’s right for free voting”. The candidate addressed the procuracy of Polotsk with a request to institute criminal lawsuit over the matter.