Presidential election 2015 in Belarus

MINSK, 25 September (BelTA) – As many as 6,995,181 voters have been entered into the voter lists for the Belarus president election, BelTA learned from the website of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus.

In particular, there are 1,000,295 voters in Brest Oblast, 877,793 voters in Vitebsk Oblast, 1,101,044 voters in Gomel Oblast, 778,355 voters in Grodno Oblast, 1,116,183 voters in Minsk Oblast, 814,852 voters in Mogilev Oblast, and 1,300,917 voters in the city of Minsk. As many as 5,742 people have been entered into voter lists outside Belarus.

BelTA earlier quoted CEC head Lidia Yermoshina as saying that over 7 million ballots will be published for the presidential election. The share of spare ballots will be up to 5% of the total. They will be distributed across polling stations.

A total of over 6,100 polling stations have been set up in Belarus and abroad. The stations will be opened in sanatoriums, hospitals, other stationary healthcare institutions and army units in addition to other places. Belarus citizens, who live abroad, will be able to cast their votes at 49 polling stations.

11 October 2015 is the election day. Citizens will be able to cast early votes on 6-10 October (from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 19:00). On the election day the polling stations will stay open from 8:00 to 20:00.

Belarus citizens will be able to cast their votes only at the polling station assigned to their place of residence. Following the established tradition voters will have to check their chosen candidate on the ballot paper with any sign. After that the checked ballot paper will have to be dropped into the sealed container.