“People have taken videos of soldiers voting at one of the polling stations. It is evident that the soldiers were placing their ballots in the envelope outside of the booths. There were officers present who were their immediate commanders and guides. The Armenia alliance spoke about this. What can you do?” the Civil Contract political party representative, Rustam Badasyan, asked the Central Electoral Commission chair Tigran Mukuchyan during the Constitutional Court session.
“We also saw that video. We believe that it is impossible to make an unequivocal judgement about being influenced. The video does not show that,” Mukuchyan responded.
Rustam Badasyan continued that according to another incident reporter in the political parties’ appeals, in one of the polling stations, the soldiers were accompanied by a representative of the military police and counted on a list. “It is clear from the video that the soldiers are voting openly for the third party, and the photos of the voters are missing on the ballots,” Rustam Badasyan said.
Tigran Mukuchyan responded, “It is the same. There is a video that it is impossible to make absolute judgments about in connection to the complete circumstances in order to prove election violations. There were no appeals in either case.”
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On Monday, the Constitutional Court continued to consider the applications of the opposition political forces, the Armenia and I Have Honor alliances and the Zartonk and Armenian Homeland parties disputing the results of the June 20 elections.
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