Not only Anahit Bakhshyan, a member of the Heritage Party, but also the commission chairman of electoral district no. 11 is discontent with the work of the commission of polling place no. 11/16 of the electoral district. “There really are serious problems at polling place no. 16; the commission chairman made, to put it mildly, organizational mistakes,” Karen Mkhitaryan, the chairman of the electoral district commission, said to www.aravot.am.
Anahit Bakhshyan who participated in the vote recount in the polling place at the request of the Hello Yerevan Coalition told us that no number gotten during the vote recount corresponded to those in the polling place record. The polling place had recorded 9 invalid ballots, whereas during the vote recount they found 8 invalid ballots in the sack. The number of ballots cast for the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) had been 265, whereas the recounting commission members found 264 ballots in the sack, 7 out of which were obviously invalid, and two were cast for the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). “As a result, the number of the PAP’s votes reduced by 10,” Ms. Bakhshyan said. According to the record, the number of ballots cast for the Hello Yerevan Coalition had been 66, 2 out of which were found invalid during the vote recount, 3 out of Armenian National Congress’s (ANC) 40 ballots were the RPA’s, 1 of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s (ARF) 37 ballots was invalid, and they found only 521 out of 524 ballots recorded as cast for the RPA in the sack during the vote recount. “There were 960 signatures on the voter registration list, whereas the real number of votes was fewer by 2. The polling place received 1650 ballots, but when you add the destroyed ballots to those found in the sack, you get 1646; four ballots are not there,” Ms. Bakhshyan told us. By the way, according to witnesses, the RPA chairman of that polling place, lit candles in the polling place on May 5, and when asked why, he said that he was driving evil spirits away.
Arpine SIMONYAN
