CEC Denied Information to Independent Newspaper

This was not a sin­gle inci­dent. For instance, the bal­lot count at PEC No 20 of the Cen­tral dis­trict in Min­sk was observed by the Euro­ra­dio. The results were 67% to Lukashenko, 19% to Karatke­vich, 11% against all, 1–2% to Haiduke­vich and Ulakhovich each. How­ev­er, the results in the chart of the TEC show only 5% to Tat­siana Karatke­vich at PEC No20, where­as num­ber “against all” raised to 20%. The dis­crep­an­cy was noticed from a chart of a Lat­vian blog­ger who wrote he had been present at sum­ming up the elec­tion results at TEC of the Cen­tral dis­trict. He under­lined that he took down the results by ear and advised cross­check­ing the min­utes of the respec­tive polling sta­tions.

Also, at polling sta­tion No23 of the Cen­tral dis­trict there was a dis­crep­an­cy for fig­ures of the turnout: the PEC min­utes reg­is­tered the turnout of 918 vot­ers, where­as in the chart of the TEC the fig­ure was 1014 peo­ple (the edi­to­r­i­al office says they have a copy of the min­utes).

This was what Nasha Niva want­ed to do: the edi­to­r­i­al office request­ed a pos­si­bil­i­ty from Lidziya Yarmoshy­na to see the min­utes of all polling sta­tions in the cap­i­tal. The reply from Lidziya Yarmoshy­na says that CEC does not have the doc­u­ments – they stayed at the Min­sk City Com­mis­sion. And the city com­mis­sion ceased its work, no one picks up the phone.