The work of recounting votes continues in the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia. The final results of the voting will be published on June 14. Vahagn Hovakimyan, the chairman of the RA CEC, announced this.

According to him, at the current stage, we are mostly talking about technical errors made during data entry. As the Chairman of the Central Election Commission noted, serious inaccuracies were found in only five of the 2005 election precincts. In those cases, lines were omitted during manual data entry in the protocols, a classic “human factor”.

“I want to say once again to dear journalists and citizens of the Republic of Armenia. in fact, only five of the 2,005 sites had input problems. The records are accurate, but an error occurred when entering the data: lines were left out,” Hovakimyan emphasized. One such incident happened in electoral district No. 27. According to Hovakimyan, the error was related to the fatigue of the employee entering the data. Moreover, the actual protocols of the sites have been preserved and published, so the error is easily detected and corrected. The President of the CEC reminded that the results are called preliminary precisely because they are subject to adjustment and verification. “The preliminary results are the ones that still need to be adjusted. Now a recalculation is being carried out in many precincts.”

According to official data, the CEC received very few properly formulated applications for recounting votes. Such applications were received from the “Prosperous Armenia” party, the “Strong Armenia” alliance and the “Wings of Unity” party.

Many other applications were formulated with irregularities (wrong submission, lack of authority, etc.) and, therefore, were not accepted in the prescribed manner. However, in many cases, the regional election commissions started recounting the votes on their own initiative. The process is particularly active in Yerevan. Recounting is planned in almost all electoral districts of the capital, primarily at the initiative of a candidate from one of the opposition forces, who has expressed such a wish. Recalculation is taking place according to the deadlines set by the law (until Friday at 14:00). Theoretically, any candidate or proxy has the right to request a recount in all the polling stations where he was present at the summary of the results, but this must be done strictly in accordance with the law.

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