There were voters at no. 2/3 polling place who preferred King Pap and Mikayel Sargsyan, Serzh Sargsyan’s son-in-law, to the 8 candidates for president. Today during the recalculation of ballots at no. 2/3 polling place of no. 2 electoral district, the members of the commission recalled this funny voting. During the recalculation, besides recalling anecdotes, Styopa Safaryan, a representative of the Heritage Party, and the members of the commission debated for a long time whether they should consider three ballots among those cast for Serzh Sargsyan void or not. Mr. Safaryan likened the mark on one of the ballots to an Armenian letter Ս, and the members of the commission likened it to a Latin letter V and explained it as a result of the quivering of a voter’s hand. “He wrote the letter Ս, it is not a check mark; this is absolutely void, ladies and gentlemen. So one can write any letter of the alphabet in the box, and all of them will be valid, bravo!” said Mr. Safaryan, opposing the members of the commission who considered it a valid ballot after claiming persistently.
They separated a few ballots from among those cast for Raffi Hovhannisyan too, suspecting them of being void. On those ballots the mark was bold, and the members of the commission, not having grounds to consider them void, found them valid, “We don’t wish to go on about that; we say: ‘Good for that man, let him take his votes.’” At the end of the recalculation, Mr. Safaryan and the members of the commission started to argue again.
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