How election committees check validity of signatures

And claimed that the signatures were illegal again!

The district commission has rejected 62 out of 1076 signatures collected by Ryhor Hryk, a candidate of the United Civil Party. Members of the committee claim that the signatures and dates were written by different people.

Ryhor Hryk: “I spent two days re-visiting people and collected 28 appeals – people confirmed that they signed and put the dates themselves. I sent them to Lidziya Yarmoshyna and then collected 7 appeals. I was going to send them to the Supreme Court”.

Ryhor Hryk informed the district election committee about the appeals on the afternoon of August 27. Its members visited all the mentioned people in less than a day and… collected appeals where they claimed that the signatures were not valid!

Euroradio has asked Baranavichy electors why they gave their signatures to a candidate, refused from them, gave their signatures again and refused from them again.

“Hryk came here and I gave my signature to him. Then representatives of the district election committee visited me. They gave me some document that I had to sign to confirm that it was my signature. I do not remember its contents. But I signed it, - says pensioner Lidziya Sidorka. – Then they came again and said that they had to check my signature. Isn’t it funny?!”

However, CEC members accepted the proof presented by the district election committee. They rejected Ryhor Hryk’s appeal unanimously on August 28.

None of the people who gave their signatures to Ryhor Hryk refused from them. But Hryk has not been registered.

Only two candidates will run for MP in Baranavichy-East constituency #6  now – a private entrepreneur and member of the LDP Mikalai Artsyamchuk and Alyaksandr Ststyatsko, chief physician of Baranavichy Central Polyclinic.