MINSK, 27 February (BelTA) – As we speak Belarusians are going to the polls to vote on the brand new Structure of the Republic of Belarus, BelTA has discovered.
Some 5,510 polling stations have been arrange in Belarus, together with 217 in sanatoriums, relaxation properties, hospitals and different healthcare organizations, and likewise 12 in navy items.
Voting can be operating from 8.00 until 20.00.
Holders of ID playing cards or biometric passports can vote in the identical manner as holders of peculiar passports. It’s also attainable to make use of a pension card, a disabled individual’s ID if it has a photograph, a scholar ID, a civil servant ID, in addition to a certificates issued by an inside affairs physique to exchange a misplaced passport or ID card.
If a citizen is registered in a single place and resides in one other, he/she should show his/her residence throughout the territory of this polling station. It’s essential to current a registered rental settlement or different doc. On the premise of such a doc, the fee can embody a citizen within the voting record. On this case, he/she needs to be excluded from the voting record on the major place of residence.
All obligatory circumstances to adjust to the sanitary and epidemiological necessities prescribed by the Healthcare Ministry as a part of the combat towards the unfold of COVID-19 have been ensured in the course of the voting. This included the collection of applicable premises to safe social distance, in addition to air flow, cleansing, disinfection, availability of antiseptics, private protecting tools at each polling station. The identical as in the course of the 2020 presidential election, it was determined to take away the entrance curtains within the voting cubicles. Residents with COVID-19, who’re handled at dwelling, may also don’t have any issues with voting within the referendum. Such residents can ask for dwelling voting.
The referendum query is: “Do you settle for the amendments and additions to the Structure of the Republic of Belarus?”
Voters must put their mark in one of many two packing containers – “for” or “towards”. Voters can put any mark in one of many packing containers. If each the packing containers are mark or neither of them is marked, such a poll can be thought of invalid.
The referendum is carried out by common, free, equal and secret poll. Residents over 18 years of age shall have the precise to take part in it. Every individual shall vote in individual.
The referendum shall be thought of legitimate if greater than half of the residents on the voting record solid their ballots.
