Once I have already told and I will remind now. On 27 November 2005, the day of the referendum on constitutional amendments, a friend of mine went to the polling station to vote at 1:00 p.m. in the city of Gavar. The door of the polling station was closed. Some time later, some people came out and asked why he had come and what he wanted. My friend explained that he had come to vote. “Hey man, you have already voted,” replied the interlocutor with a smiling on his face. In other words, the “yes” organizers “did not trouble themselves to giving bribes or stuffing ballots; they simply had filled in numbers and had submitted the ballots to the CEC.
To avoid the occurrence of the same this time too, the “no” supporters should at least have someone trustworthy in every polling station in Gavar. Do the HQ of the Coordination Council of United Opposition, the National Salvation Front and other organizations with horrible names have such human resource? It seems, not. Should they have, they would commence actions as of today, they would go from house to house and would find out who of the voters registered in the list published by the police are “present” in the Republic and who are “absent”, after which they would compile and publish their lists of actually present voters. It is evident that the “dead souls” would be the main resource to rig the referendum.
Or else, some opposition members have found an easy occupation. They detect repeated names and last names in the foregoing lists, particularly their names. It is a good option not to go far from the computer. It is much more difficult to get up from the place and to go to your neighbors living at least in the same building entrance with you and to find out whether Sanasar or Baghdasar mentioned in the list actually live under this address, are laying asphalt in Ust-Kamenogorsk over 20 years. And organizing several dozen young people for this work would be just wonderful. Publishing the list after the elections, for which a fight is going on, will make sense only in the case if it would be possible to prove as a result of certain task that the people “voted” by this list are actually absent from the Republic. This, certainly, is a very difficult and laborious task. Also, boring. It is much more interesting and enjoyable to make fiery speeches from various platforms, to gather in the Freedom Square and to walk in the center of Yerevan with a few hundred people.
Well, suppose I detected that there are fifty people by the name Aram Abrahamyan in the voting lists. What does it give to us? Only the fact that my last name is very common in Armenia, and my parents have given me a usual name (for which, I am very grateful to them). If they had given me a name, say, Bakhtibek, then my “analogs” would be significantly less in the voting list.
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