§ Article 52(untitled)

onducting voting at a polling station
 Each voter and referendum participant votes personally; voting for other persons is not
allowed.
 A ballot paper is issued to a voter, referendum participant by a member of the precinct
commission on the basis of a list of citizens entitled to participate in elections, referendums,
voting on the recall of a deputy, after presenting a passport of a citizen of the Republic of
Belarus (identification card of a citizen of the Republic of Belarus) or another document
determined by the Central Commission. Upon receipt of the ballot, the voter or referendum
participant signs in the appropriate column of the specified list.
 The ballot is filled out by the voter in the secret voting booth or room. When filling out the
ballot, the presence of anyone other than the voter is prohibited.
 A voter, a referendum participant who does not have the opportunity to fill out a ballot on
his own, has the right to invite another person to the booth or room for secret voting at his own
discretion, except for members of the precinct and higher commissions, candidates for the
President of the Republic of Belarus, for deputies, their proxies, as well as persons specified in
parts five and six of Article 13 of this Code.
 When voting in elections, the voter places any sign in the empty square located to the right
of the name of the candidate for whom he votes. If a voter votes against all candidates, he or
she places any sign in the empty square located to the right of the line “Against all candidates.”
When voting in a referendum, if a referendum participant votes for the adoption of the question
put to the referendum, he puts any sign in the square under the word “for”, and if he votes
against the question put to the referendum, he puts any sign in the square under the word
“against”. A voter voting for the recall of a deputy puts any sign in the square under the words
“for recall,” and a voter voting against recalling a deputy puts any sign in the square under the
words “against recall.”
 If the name of only one candidate is included in the ballot, then when voting for the
candidate, the voter puts any sign in the square under the word “for”, and when voting against
the candidate, puts any sign in the square under the word “against”.
 The voter or referendum participant places the completed ballot in the ballot box.
 When holding elections of deputies on a single voting day, the voter receives and fills out
separately a ballot for the election of a deputy of the House of Representatives and a ballot
(ballots) for the election of a deputy of the local Council of Deputies and places them in the
ballot box.
 In the event of simultaneous elections and a referendum, two or more referendums, the
voter receives and fills out a ballot for each of them and places them in the ballot box.
 It is prohibited to take the issued ballot outside the voting premises, as well as to take
photos and videos of the completed ballot.
 If a voter or referendum participant believes that he made a mistake when filling out a ballot,
he has the right to contact the member of the precinct commission who issued the ballot with
a request to issue him a new ballot to replace the damaged one. A member of the precinct
commission, having received a spoiled ballot, which must have the handwritten signature of the
voter, referendum participant, issues a new ballot to the voter, referendum participant, making
a note about this in the list of citizens entitled to participate in elections, referendums, voting
on the recall of a deputy, opposite the name voter, referendum participant who made a mistake.
The spoiled ballot is canceled, about which an act is drawn up, signed by the chairman or deputy
chairman or the secretary and two members of the precinct commission. Repeated issuance of
a new ballot to replace a damaged one is not permitted.