Belarus poll workers describe vote-rigging in August election

Belarusian opposition supporters gather in front of police line toward the Independence Palace, residence of President Alexander Lukashenko (AP)

Poll workers in Belarus have made claims over vote-rigging in the August 9 election that kept the country’s authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko in power.

One worker in the capital, Minsk, told the Associated Press she was asked to sign a document with the vote totals left blank even before the election concluded.