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Five categories, never conflated

The recorded numbers do not reflect the votes cast.

Unequal media access, repression, illegal financing, vote buying, misuse of state resources.

Cyberattacks, hack-and-leak, covert foreign financing, impersonation of media or institutions by a foreign state or proxy.

Troll farms, fake local-media networks, covert political ads, coordinated inauthentic amplification — foreign or domestic.

Patterns in the data worth examining — explicitly not proof of fraud.

A finding sits in exactly one category. Colors and icons carry the same meaning everywhere on the site.

From the case files

The clearest test of a trustworthy record is whether it can hold both statements at once.

Result falsificationConfirmed
The OSCE Moscow Mechanism rapporteur found the allegations that the election was not transparent, free or fair confirmed, referred to “the falsified presidential elections,” and recommended cancelling the results.
Sources:1
Process violationsConfirmed
Leading opposition contenders were barred or jailed before the vote, and ODIHR could not observe the election because Belarus failed to issue a timely invitation.
Sources:1 2

Result falsificationAlleged
The “true” outcome is not independently verified — authorities never published station-level protocols, and the parallel counts covered only part of the stations.
Sources:1
Foreign interferenceAlleged
No authoritative investigation established that a foreign state altered vote tallies; the documented falsification was attributed to Belarusian state bodies, with Russia’s established role being post-election political and security backing.
Sources:1

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