Yarmoshyna: Commission Won’t Show Every Ballot Paper To Monitors

And installing transparent ballot boxes at voting stations is considered “a far-fetched issue” by the CEC head.

After the “parliamentary elections” the chairperson of the Central Elections Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna plans to put forward proposals to Lukashenka on amending the electoral legislation. She told so to journalists on June 23 in Minsk, Radio Svaboda reports.

To the question whether ballot papers would be demonstrated to observers during a vote count, Yarmoshyna answered:

“Commissions won’t count votes showing every ballot paper. Amendments to the law should be done for that. As the entire vote counting procedure is set there.”

At the same time, the CEC head added that commissions fulfill the recommendation of the ODIHR OSCE to allow observers controlling vote count.

“After the elections I am going to come up to Lukashenka with a proposal. What other proposals should be made, I do not know yet, – Yarmoshyna said. – The procedure is to change in some way. However all decisions on amending the law are made at consultations with Lukashenka by a consensus. That is why all that is a result of a compromise. I won’t say about anything now. It’s too early to speak about that.”

Transparent ballot boxes won’t appear in Belarus as well. The CEC head believes that “this issue is so far-fetched, that there is nothing to speak about here really.”

“It is far-fetched as it had never fixed anything anywhere, and does not bring forth confidence in elections does not come from that. Maybe psychologically. For a minute or an hour – not more. What is decisive is the vote count,” – Yarmoshyna said.