The question about the right of observers to polling stations to use a variety of optics - glasses, binoculars, a monocle, a telescope, larnet and others - to the Central Election Commission of the Vitebsk activist Kastus Mardzvincau. The response received from the Chairman of the Central Election Commission Lydia Yermoshina is: the observer may use points, "regarding special optical devices, their use for surveillance at the polling station electoral legislation does not provide."