Gohar Meloyan, the representative of the “Strong Armenia” bloc, stated that during the process of studying the protocols and recounting the votes, the political force has already managed to restore a part of the votes that were lost due to the errors that occurred during the processing of the election results.
According to him, at the moment the representatives of the alliance have analyzed the data of about 900 out of 2005 polling stations. “These are the votes that we have already managed to return. We find inconsistencies in protocol lines, errors in documents and cases of incorrect data entry into the system,” Meloyan stated, presenting a table according to which, as a result of the recount, “Strong Armenia” managed to return 567 voters’ votes. He emphasized that the verification of the results is ongoing, and the published data reflect only the interim picture.
Meloyan claims that during the analysis, the representatives of the bloc found errors not only in the results of “Strong Armenia”, but also in favor of the ruling “Civil Agreement” party. According to him, cases were recorded when the number of votes of the ruling party was indicated not only higher than what was actually reflected in the primary documents, but often zero votes mysteriously turned into 500-700 votes.
“In one of the precincts, 717 votes were entered into the system in favor of the CP, when the actual figure should have been 0. In another precinct, 570 votes were indicated, while there were also 0 votes in favor of the ruling power. These are only the data of the first 900 polling stations, from 2005. We are still working on the materials,” the representative of the alliance emphasized. In total, as of now, the alliance has found 4,586 votes attributed to the ruling party.
Answering the journalists’ question whether he considers the discovered inconsistencies to be accidental mistakes or the result of purposeful actions, Meloyan stated that he is inclined to the second option. According to him, many controversial numbers were entered already after receiving the data from the polling stations. “Yes, I think that there are features of intentionality here, because it concerns the data that was received directly from the polling stations, and the inconsistencies arose already at the stage of their processing,” said the representative of the alliance.
Meloyan called the quality of electoral envelopes another serious problem of the current elections. According to him, the material of the envelopes was so transparent that in a number of cases it allowed to determine which particular ballot was inside. “A person was voting, and from the envelope it was visible who he voted for. This is already a violation of the principle of secrecy of voting,” he stated. Meloyan claims that such a situation could create additional pressure on voters and lead to their identification.
The representative of “Strong Armenia” also expressed concern that the proxies and members of the committee in individual precincts could be employees of local administrations. According to him, in the conditions when it was possible to see the selected ballot paper through the envelope, it created a risk of putting pressure on the citizens. “In many cases, people could be in the center of attention because of which electoral list they voted for, especially if there were representatives of local authorities or community workers in the precinct,” Meloyan stated.
According to him, the alliance intends to continue the study of all detected violations and achieve that the results of the recount are taken into account when summarizing the final results of the elections.
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