How the Official in Vitebsk Forced the Commission to Redo the Protocols at the Polling Station

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On the Youtube channel Belarus Lives Matter, a recording appeared on which the head of the Oktyabrsky district, Sergei Stashevsky, persuades members of the election Commission at the polling station № 25, who counted the votes honestly, to fake the numbers in favor of Lukashenko, "Belsat" reports.

Sergei Stashevsky asked the Commission how it was that a majority of the votes cast for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

– How did it happen?

- The ballots were counted – all that were.

In response to this, Stashevsky says that another Commission counted "a little differently".

At the same time, the official does not name Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. He says that it is necessary to change the results of voting "because there is a lot of..."

"I don't want you to be the only ones who somehow, guided by no one knows what, got out of the crowd. I'm quite an old man. And I was a contemporary with Viktor Tsoi. I have a very tough proposal for you - to change the protocol and radically change the numbers between the third and fourth candidates."

The head of the Oktyabrsky district of Vitebsk ordered a member of the Commission to solve the issue of the protocols' replacement independently.

One observer asked if he could not sign the falsified protocol, to which Stashevsky replied:

"I don't need your special opinion. I heard it, and I'll take it into account. We are all principled people up to a certain point. When we talk about our future, we want it to be a little different. Today is not a situation where you need to be principled."

Stashevsky added that he respects the Commission for stating their position as a team, but "today we need to do something different."

Not all members of the Commission agreed to falsify the protocols. Some got up and left the office in silence, to which Stashevsky said:

"Those who do not want to sign this document in principle, we still need to have two-thirds of the Commission. They stay, and the rest may feel very bad and leave the polling station."