Voting in the Coordination Council elections will be possible with the New Belarus passport: results of the Electoral Commission session

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Today the second session of the Electoral Commission of the Coordination Council took place. The event examined in detail the technical specifications for the digital voting platform. Particular attention was paid to the issue of restricting Electoral Commission members' access to voters' personal information.

A decision has been taken that voting in the elections will be possible using the following documents:

• Passport of a citizen of Belarus (valid or expired).

• New Belarus passport.

"We set ourselves the goal of ensuring that those Belarusians who are currently without passports are able to vote — because they were released from Belarusian prisons only very recently and were forcibly deported, most of them without documents," explained Electoral Commission Chair Alena Prykhodzka, clarifying the decision to include the New Belarus passport in the list.

Preliminary electoral campaign schedule:

• 5 March: Signing of the trilateral Memorandum on interaction and delineation of responsibilities.

• 6 March: The Electoral Commission officially announces the means of conducting the elections and the voting dates.

• 10–31 March: Submission of documents and registration of electoral subjects. During the same period, the Commission takes decisions on registration or refusal thereof.

• 11–17 May: Voting.

Broadcast of the session — via the link.

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