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On October 10, Azerbaijani official newspaper "Khalq" published a pretty interesting photo of presidential elections held in the city of Sumgait, Azerbaijani news agency "Turan" writes.

As noted in the material, on this photo one can see how a man drops a ballot into a ballot box and still keeps a pile of ballots in his other hand. Another voter is standing next to him and also votes. They both do not hide the pleasure from what is happening. It is noteworthy that this photo can no longer be found on the website of the newspaper.

"We did not ask questions to our colleagues from the newspaper "Khalq", as we know the answers in advance: in the other hand of the voter are not ballots, but the papers that look like ballots. That’s what we thought," reads the material.

Azerbaijan held presidential elections on October 9, where Ilham ALiyev took a victory with 84,58% votes. According to the preliminary data, Jamil Hasanli a single candidate from the oppositionist National Council of Democratic Forces is on the second place. He scored 5,54% of votes. The leaders of the "Musavat" party Isa Gambar, the head of the Popular Front Party Ali Kerimli, the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan Sardar Jalaloglu and leader of the movement “EL” Eldar Namazov have declared about "total violations" and frauds during the presidential elections. The candidate of the National Council Jamil Hasanli has also noted the mass election frauds and announced incumbent President Ilham Aliyev responsible that. Jamil Hasanli’s headquarter has regularly issued releases describing election violations in details - ballot stuffing, "carousels", pressure on observes, etc.