Sargsyan HQ in Etchmiadzin Hires Taxis to Ferry Voters, Especially
Seniors, to Polls
Grisha Balasanyan

14:01, February 18, 2013

Most of the taxi cabs in Etchmiadzin have been hired out by the local
President Serzh Sargsyan headquarters to ferry voters to the polls and
back.

One cabby waiting outside the 19/18 polling station told me they be at
it all day but refused to say how much they were getting paid. `It’s a
major secret,’ he confessed.

Inside, Hayk Gasparyan from the Heritage Party who serves as president
of the local election committee, told me that voting was proceeding
normally.

So far, only 375 of the 1,997 registered voters had cast ballots.

The taxis seem to have been instructed to especially transport senior
citizens to the polling stations.

At polling station 19/8 they brought in an elderly woman who appeared
totally confused by what was happening. She didn’t even know what the
vote was all about.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress