Elections in Belarus - Blood, vodka, carousel.
What does the word "Election" tell you? Surely many will say - this is the legal right of a citizen to decide the fate of their country. The fate of the country primarily depends on the correct policy of the leadership. So, this is a fair statement. Perhaps in some countries, this is true, but certainly not in Belarus. Here, for more than 23 years, one "Dictator" rules and he decides the outcome of an election.
The people of Belarus risked and elected me president. This happens very rarely in history and it is more likely that it will not happen again.
- Alexander Lukashenko
In February 2018, that is, more recently, local elections were held in Belarus. All would be nothing, but thanks to the efforts of independent journalists, enterprising citizens, and individual bloggers, it was possible to reveal total falsification.
What are Carousels?
Throughout the country, so-called carousels were seen. What is a carousel? Carousels in elections are a process in which "special" people vote in different polling stations. That is, the same "special" person can vote many times. How is this possible? I'll write about this a little later.
The main human resource in the process of this "carousel" are employees of government departments, such as within the tax service. Teachers also take part in this (most often forced). These are specially trained people who act in collusion with all participants of election commissions. They are moved by a specially allocated vehicle (paid for by the budget). All this was recorded on video. On election days, people conducted photos and videos "hunting" for the carousel.
The obvious fact is that they are fully aware and give an account of their actions. They are purposefully acting contrary to law and justice. The only motivation for them is to follow orders and get money.
Vodka at School Buffets on Election Day
In the cities, the main places to vote at are schools. Cheap vodka at school buffets is another way for the state to increase the attendance of a place for voting. Belarus has one of the highest alcohol abuse percentages thanks to the assistance of the state.
Who drinks every day - do not vote for me, I will not be friends with such people.
- Alexander Lukashenko
So why should the state take such a step? The answer is obvious - Because alcohol makes the population impotent and obedient.
The Main Ways the State Falsifies Elections
"We do not need an automated system of electoral fraud: No. We will create a state system"
- Alexander Lukashenko
1. Compulsory Preliminary Voting
"Involvement of social resources" - as the head of the Central Election Committee Lydia Yermoshina calls this process. She is one of the main political lobbyists of Lukashenka.
From history: in 1996, the head of the central election committee and the enemy of the president was Viktor Gonchar. He openly stated that Lukashenka falsified the elections and the referendum and refused to take part in it. For this, he was removed from office. At the moment he is considered missing. His place was taken by Lydia Yermoshina - who fully supports the president.
The main people who vote under duress are students, employees of state enterprises, military, and police. Employees of state enterprises are afraid not to go to the polls. They are threatened with dismissal.
Thanks to the "use of the social resource", in the preliminary voting, a figure of more than 35% of voters was officially received. How is this possible? Are people consciously and willingly going to vote? Answer - No! According to the social survey, the overwhelming majority of Belarusians do not believe in elections.
2. "Dead Souls" - Registration of Dead People
This is a simple way to increase the number of votes for "necessary" candidates. This practice is often used. But there were facts when these actions became public. This method influences the image of the Belarusian electionsin a negative manner.
3. Ballot Stuffing at a Time when Overseers are not Watching
Numerous testimonies including video evidence prove that this brazen way is actively used.
4. Carousels
Carousels are an active way and novelty of this season of voting. Although this method was used before, this time it actively prevailed.
5. Scams During the Counting of Votes.
This is the oldest and most proven way of falsifying elections in favor of the "right" candidate.
Experiment to Expose "Carousels"
If you write a special code in the passport on the right page, you can come to different polling stations and the commission will accept as a "special person" (the person who participates in the carousel). This is exactly what an enterprising citizen has done.
He wrote in his passport the necessary figures (the information leaked to the network) and checked whether it works or not. It worked!
A young woman who worked at the school wrote about these figures on her Telegram page. She wrote that she was given special numbers in her passport, thanks to which she could vote several times in a row.
At the last polling station, the activist appealed to the chairman of the election commission and recorded it on video. In the video, he asked to explain why this is happening. The chairman and members of the commission began to deny everything, they claimed: "An error has occurred."
Brutal Beating of an Independent Journalist
We have enough power to crush these elections and a referendum.
- Alexander Lukashenko
No, this is not an isolated case of beating journalists in the last election. Everywhere journalists were subjected to pressure from law enforcement agencies.
On February 18, during the shooting of the counting process, an independent journalist of the Belsat channel was beaten and detained. Four policemen broke in and pulled out journalist Andrei Kozel. In the process of detention, they smashed his head with blows of a police baton and a blow against the glass door. The police explained their actions to the fact that the Belsat channel has no accreditation in Belarus and has no right to conduct video shooting.
The journalist received several blows to the head and body area. He was placed in the center of isolation of offenders where he was not provided with medical care.
They forcefully pressed me to the floor and hit on the head. After that, I was struck 2 times in the chest area. I looked around and everywhere there was my blood
- Condemned journalist Andrei Kozel
Later there was a court case, but the case was sent for revision, and the journalist was released from the courtroom. On this incident with the journalist reacted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Poland.
I am outraged by the brutal beating and arrest of Andrei Kozel, the confidant of one of the candidates in local elections, which are held in Belarus. I expect the authorities to provide him with medical assistance, contact with a lawyer and family, and punish those responsible
- said the deputy head of the Polish Foreign Ministry.
Interesting fact: Belsat channel banned in Belarus because they often show the truth there and Lukashenka does not like it. He calls it fake.
Conclusions and What is Happening Today
None of the representatives of the Belarusian opposition became a deputy. Only a few good people managed to get real support from the population and become a deputy. But unfortunately, with these people, an active political struggle is being waged.
A real example of what is happening today is Rosa Viktorovna, who became a deputy in the Gomel region. After assuming the post of the deputy, she received telephone calls with threats. She is threatened that they will find an excuse to forcibly send her to a psychiatric hospital.
At the moment, there was an attempt to grab her during the planned visit to the administration of the city of Gomel. Near the entrance to the building, she was waiting for a team of doctors. They tried to detain her, but thanks to the efforts of the townspeople, they retreated from it.
It was also found out that calls are received from the phones belonging to the employees of the city administration. This fact is confirmed by the recording of calls and numerous testimonies of eyewitnesses. Officially, the authorities deny everything.
Looking at everything that is happening, one thing is certain - the situation in the country cannot be settled by elections.
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Lukashenko is the same, only the Western ruling classes' attitude has changed now that Putin has taken office as their official Satan.
“I’m not Europe’s last dictator anymore,” Lukashenko, said with a chuckle. “There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I’m the lesser evil already.”
This election takes place at a time when "democratic" efforts to force a change of regime in Belarus (from the one overwhelmingly supported by the population) are on the back-burner. The propaganda war against Belarus has been muted so that relations can be improved to the point where the Belarus card can be played against Russia.
That requires a grudging acknowledgement of the election results showing that the wily socialist President of Belarus is still by far the most popular politician in Europe with the voters. (D. Cameron was reappointed as dictator under the rigged UK electoral system with way less that half that level of support from the politically downtrodden British population.)
The domestic popularity of Belarus' socially-oriented model is the real threat Lukashenko poses to US/EU bankster "democracy" and the reason for the relentless demonisation of the Belarus President and the tireless efforts to delegitimise the choice of the voters of that country.
This propaganda need conflicts with the imminent EU decision to end anti-Belarus sanctions and so a balance will have to be struck: the OSCE assessment of the election will have to be damning but not too damning.
In short and as usual, the new Western policy has been determined and the evidence and facts will be fixed around it.
It’s hard d to believe what I just read, but this is called reality. By reading this reality of Belarus elections, I’m really frustrated and I don’t live there. I can only imagine how all these honest citizens of Belarus must feel. There have been rumors of some cases in the US of so called Carousels in elections, but definately not in this scale. I mean so openly for the same "special" person being able to vote many times? How is this possibly? Well, as you mantioned, it is. For people being moved by a specially allocated vehicle as I watched in your video. At the end, how can so many people face the God? Are they so scared? Is this in their blood thinking “it’s ok?” I guess money talk as you said. It’s also shocking what and why they are trying to serve people so much alcohol to make the population impotent and obedient. The crooked history of Belarus election proofs itself just by reading about Alexander Lukashenko‘s opponents and what eventually happened to them, missing Viktor Gonchar and there must be many more others like him. It’s really shocking to read stories of good individuals such as Rosa Viktorovna, I mean she is someone’s mom, daughter... I hope the journalism and all opponents who fight against this regime will not be silenced, but instead get louder and louder and eventually beat this horrible way of political life.
Election were constituted in every country 's constitution so that people of that country get right in making the govt.But apas this power has become a mere hoke, as even the vote caters and vote beggars feel like lodmsing thr kinda at the time of election. There is now a saying that people who castala votes dont decide the election but it is the one who counts votes.Such an Irony.Amid all the world class technologies, its still not easy to held the election commissions responsible for the election frauds...Though the idea of govt shouldn't be looking for next elections always but it should be looking for the next generation.Govt have simply become blood suckers of the people who election them..Its always a case of fiasco to which govt to choose because every time they come the policy implementations which attract people for a time being but the post results are always nightmare..Election is a fool's paradise where a fool is only we common people, we make kingmakers but alas we dont get treated as kingmakers..A fool things himself to be wise but a wide man knows himself to be a fool., Well said shakespeare
&*its losing there mind instead of lodmsing thr kind****
An election is an act of democracy in a country wherein they can choose their leader but are they (the people) really choosing their leader or the only few corrupt politicians who manipulate the voting system for them to have a sure win in the race?
@elizahfhaye Elections from the people, to the people of Dan to the people. that's what the elections really mean to me.
have you got the same voting power like in steemit.
The Venezuelan government implements several systems like this to force the people to vote for them, from given them free bags full of food, T.Vs, some people even get houses for free and then when the next election comes around they get threated, vote for us or we kick you out or kill or harm your family.
This is the strategy "smart" dictators use, get the people to be dependent on the state and then force them to do your will under the threat of removing all their luxuries or their means of living.
Many bad situations in a country cannot be solved by an election
Simply awesome post! I think voting should be done on blockchain. That would be a simple solution However, many parties complains about voting fraud during the election time. Complaining about voter fraud helps them to commit election fraud, which is more rewarding.
At least they have Election.
In My country No Election.
its worse in Nigeria, Election is just a show
Read the post content very well...Nigeria's case hasn't gotten to the extent
Did you see this?👇
This is a simple way to increase the number of votes for "necessary" candidates. This practice is often used. But there were facts when these actions became public. This method influences the image of the Belarusian electionsin a negative manner.
Whenever I hear the word election, I think of corruption.
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Really nice and informative post.
I vote up cause of vodka in schools :D
very nice
Politics shouldn't be a do or die affair; nice write-up here.
There is no need to poll out there ..coz that lakashenka bitch is always gonna be the president .....he sucks.....he is stain on this humanity.....
Many bad situations in a country cannot be solved by an election.
@adsactly, to me, I think a dictatorship kind of government is more effective and efficient.. Taking note of its disadvantages, it eradicate corruption to some extent., for instance, in my country, Nigeria, we practice a democratic system of government, but as I'm talking to you the level corruption in my country in the arms of the leaders is becoming unbearable.. Where you will be hearing on the news that a snake swallowed some huge amount of money.. It's not funny.. So I prefer dictorship or military system of governance.. My opinion tho
Politics is a dirty game although, some places play the free and fair politics to a level of decency.
Reading this post beats my mind so bad and hurts my heart too especially reading about registering dead people ah!....too bad.
Why should this be happening in today's generation?
Why are the poor always prey to these political predators.
I hope we see a level of decency someday.
Vodka must be placed at the voting premises so as to impair the vision of the voters. Thanks for the great work posted @adsactly.
Greediness on the part of policians is everywhere, I don't know why politicians are like this. This was the same thing I was complaining with my friends here in Africa.
Election has been bastardized to selection. Take an instance in your conclusion.
So many officials in government every where want to hide the truth, always thats why they ban and detain media houses and journalist.
Elections in Uganda are full of rigging!
Nice post
Whenever I think a election system I feel a neurasthenia condition.....
because I havn"t any good experiance about this.....
Allowing peope the vote more than once and vote in many different places, allowing people who are not citizens to vote, bussing people into different cities to vote where jo ID is necessary all are what have been done lately, reading this tells me it’s happening world wide, and that tells me one thing, we the people, the citizens are being brain washed that we have a vote or a voice when we really don’t.
And this happening world wide is an agenda for a world event, their One world order.
Now is the time to fight back if ever there was a chance.
Politicians are complete liars.
thanks for sharing my best friend
Essentially marvelous post! I figure voting ought to be done on blockchain. That would be a basic arrangement
excellent
Good explaination
@adsactly May I ask one silly question?
How is your struggle so that you are successful in steemit?
Formulating right policies and implementing them by all citizens determines the fate of a country.
Politics is the dirtiest business in the world,the political parties plays with emotions of public by either creating ultra nationalism,or by hate mongering about other countries for their political advantage.
They use every weapon they has like I am from India here the politicians distribute around $15 for one vote.most of the Indian population which are below poverty lines takes it and vote the most corrupt one I mean they vote one who offers the large amount for the vote.
Thats insane,not only that the politicians also distribute the cheap alcohol too,which some time takes life,cause thats some time gets poiseness.
mmmmm great and awesome article
It is hard to believe the atrocities like this are still happening around the world. What will it take for someone to step in and fix these types of situations. It is hard to watch as the “many” are made powerless and controlled at such a level by the “few” the world has seen what comes from dictatorship and it has never been pretty. It’s surprising that the UN is not involved here on some level. It is difficult for organizations to push their values and systems on other countries but when a system is oppressive and abusive then that’s the time. Will we ever live in a time when power isn’t so important? Rather peace and equality rule?
Simply awesome post!
Election were constituted in every country 's constitution
Nice post!
Not much better in Slovakia....party which won last 2 elections and is in government for the last 8 years basically throws the pre-election events in style favored by the old generation.
They cook some food for them and play old songs from eighties.. these people vote for them, party wins election and continues corruption and stealing for the next 4 years...most young people had to leave the country, which is my case as well....these days there are more than 50 thousands of people protesting in streets because an investigative journalist and his girlfriend have been killed - and he was just about to release his month-long article in works about the connection of our prime-minister on Italian mafia.
Of course, old people who vote for this party have no idea what's going on because they don't use internet at all...sad...though it sounds pretty bad, but my generation is basically waiting for the old one to die off so this corrupt party won't win election ever again.
2 days ago in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
3 days ago in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
Election is our freedom of expression to go out on our way to choose and to vote the right person
I don't like politics either...politics can build or destroy a country. it's fully depend on what politicians are there.
We are unfortunate to live is a world where everything is staged. Politics, democracy, love. Everything. Voting is actually kinda useless since there is even a winner before the poll vote. The mass are just pawns in this chess game. Even the mass are not left out in this case ase they also collect stipends from corrupt leaders in exchange for their votes but they are left with no choice than to collect it since they believe thats the best thing that can happen to them and if they refuse it, they lose.
You just opened my eyes to alot of things. I would to know more about Carousel
Oh my god. This is horrible. Why did goverment manipulate election? It destroyed democracy. What happen to civil society? Did they raise some questions? What about election watch? Did they have a kind of it?
If Belarus people can not protest against government, I think international society must take action.
These situations are critical issues that cannot alone be solved by election since they only practice democracy by word and not action. Dictationship is the situation here and it will continue to be so. The good people does not want to lose thier lives so they resort to resigning or withdrawing from whatever post they are sworn in. Only God can help us
I like the who drinks everyday part, it makes a lot of sense. The Bible said he who makes them a company never grows wise.
I like the who drinks everyday part, it makes a lot of sense. The Bible said he who makes them a company never grows wise.
Who drinks every day - do not choose me, I will not be friends with such a person.
Alexander Lukashenko
So why should the state take such a step? The answer is clear - Because alcohol makes people helpless and obedient.
This is a very interesting and reasonable affirmation. Salute with @adsactly, he is a renowned political expert who I know during joining in Steemit. The analysis is always sharp and can be used as a reference politics of the world. Thank's @adsactly for sharing our knowledge.
elections shouldn't be do or die as @adsactly portrayed here, i think the EU should have a look at this ..
Your Such a great bro
"Carousel" is the most complex, but at the same time, the most effective method of electoral fraud. People involved in the "Carousel" appear not on one but at different polling stations during elections and throw ballots into ballot boxes. They often throw not just a couple, but the whole packs. The only way to prove it is with the use of video cameras, which are installed in polling stations. The observers from different parties may not notice violations themselves. In order to keep a low profile under the cameras, "Carouselers" change their clothes and headwear before entring the new polling station. They can simply take off their glasses or put on the hood of their jacket. There are many tricks.