HOW AND BY WHAT PRINCIPLES ARE BALLOTS MADE FOR THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS – ONT REPORT

After registration of candidates, all data from the Central Election Commission is transferred to our enterprise for the production of printed materials.

Great things await us! They will, however, start small  –  elections of deputies to local councils and the Lower House of Parliament. For the first time in one day. The ballot papers have been printed. The printing ink on them has not yet dried. And this is a document of constitutional importance, and not just A4 paper. In Italy, you can even get imprisoned for damaging someone else’s ballot.

Its design should be thoughtful and strict. Other countries are sometimes criticized for unwittingly or deliberately singling out one or another candidate, they say, this can influence the outcome of the vote. Ballots are even sometimes taken out of polling stations as souvenirs.

Without people, machines do not work, no matter how rapidly technology develops. And when it’s a matter of national importance, attention to every millimeter. Ballots are printed faster than you can blink. It all starts with layout. After registration of candidates, all data from the Central Election

Commission is transferred to our enterprise. And first of all, we develop layouts.

Each car has its own paint. There are two types of ballots made for Minsk. Visually they differ in the color of the back. Light green for the House of Representatives and white for the city Council of Deputies. There will be one box, and separation by color will clearly speed up the work of the commissions