A museum in Poland has acquired original ballots from the 2020 Belarusian elections.

The Museum of Free Belarus in Warsaw has acquired original ballots from the 2020 presidential election in Belarus, according to the Belsat portal.

After the election, Alexander Lukashenko's regime tried to burn them in a boiler room in Brest, but activists saved them and handed them over to dissident Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk. She hid them for four years while serving her sentence. In 2025, she was released and evacuated abroad with her family.

The ballots, now on display at the museum, bear traces of fire and the signatures of election commissions, which, according to curators, confirms their authenticity. This is rare physical evidence that could also be used in future trials against the regime.

Founded in Warsaw in 2022, the museum collects testimonies of oppression and resistance by Belarusians, from prison letters to items belonging to fighters from the Kalinovsky Regiment.

It sees the new exhibits as a key contribution to preserving the memory of the fraud of August 2020.

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