According to Aksana Samuilava, election agent of opposition candidate Aksana Zakreuskaya, the election officials of Mahiliou-based polling station No. 68 were caught stuffing false ballots.

The whereabouts of two independent observers working in Minsk polling stations Nos. 373 and 374 is currently unknown, after they left the polling stations at about 1 p.m.

Anatol Rodzik, observer representing the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, has been forcibly ejected from the office of Vitsebsk-based constituency election commission No. 20, after he said he wanted to monitor the submission of election records.

A policeman illegally penetrated Zhlobin-based polling station No. 29 at night, says Valery Rybchanka, candidate representing the Fair World party, quoting a report by local independent observers.

Aleh Kastusiou, short-term observer representing the Fair World party, was forced to leave Zhlobin-based polling station No. 14, after he was accused of burgling a safe with early vote ballot papers.

Piotr Baseika, election agent of candidate Valery Karankevich, has been detained outside polling station No. 55 in Khotsimsk.

Valery Berazienka, observer representing the Fair World party, has lodged a complaint with Mahiliou election commission No. 45, appealing extremely poor conditions for observers’ activities at polling stations.

The election record released by Smarhon-based constituency election commission No. 59 following the end of the early voting campaign says 241 persons voted by 23 September, with 1,305 ballots left. However, the commission received 1,650 ballot papers, i.e. there should have been 1,409 unused ballots.

Independent observers working in Mazyr (Homel region) have reportedly been threatened with detention, in case they come to poling stations on the voting day, 23 September.

From the very beginning of the early voting campaign, the independent observers of Babruisk have reported considerable difference in voter turnout figures provided by the election commission of polling station No. 12.

Piotr Baseika, election agent of Valery Karankevich, candidate running for Parliament in the town of Khotsimsk, who is also accredited as an observer, was not allowed today working at polling station No. 54.

Yan Dziarzhautsau, observer representing the Belarusian Helsinki Committee in Vitsebsk polling station No. 14, was denied accreditation after he received a warning for alleged insulting other observers.

Valery Beraziyenka, leader of Fair World’s Mahiliou office working as an observer in constituency No. 45, was warned yesterday by election commission for alleged interference with the activities of election officials.

In the last days of election campaigning, the executive authorities of the town of Luninets (Brest region) have prevented candidate Vital Karatysh (constituency No. 13) from having a number of meetings with voters at state-owned enterprises and organizations. Apart from that, his election posters have been stolen.

Mrs. Ilona Tkachova, election agent of candidate Valery Rybchanka, member of the Fair World party running in Zhlobin constituency No. 40, has been expelled from polling station No. 15.