The commission of electoral district no. 8 has finished the vote recount in polling place no. 8/18, at the request of the Mission Party and the Hello Yerevan Coalition. The commission put 10 out of 33 spoiled ballots to a vote to determine their validity. One ballot cast for the RPA was found valid. Two other ballots were without a stamp, and the commission secretary suggested that they consider them to be invalid. However, Oleg Grigoryan, the commission chairman, did not agree that one of the unstamped ballots was spoiled and put it to a vote,
and the commission members voted for finding the ballot valid. “The voter is not to blame. Being guided by the principles of humanity, we don’t have a right to lose the person’s vote,” the commission chairman said.
98 votes of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), 4 votes of the Mission Party, 67 votes of the Hello Yerevan Coalition, 33 votes of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), and 19 votes of the Rule of Law Party (RLP) corresponded to the numbers written by the polling place commission. By the way, there was a ballot among the spoiled ones, on which the voter had written “legalize marixuana.” Talking about the two unstamped ballots, the chairman of polling place no. 8/18, Bagrat Andreasyan, a member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), explained: “You are tired. You might physically not be able to notice that there was no stamp. If I had noticed, it would surely have been void.
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“All votes were stamped one by one; it means that those two ballots were brought from outside…. Three people stamp. One stamp might not be visible at most, but it is impossible that all three stamps are not visible.” “Maybe, the ink has evaporated,” the electoral district commission chairman added.
Arpine SIMONYAN
