The Police Response to Alert Voiced by Artur Sakunts
10:48, February 20, 2013 | News | Electoral Rights | PoliceArtur Sakunts, Chairman of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor has disseminated information via online media sources that voters from various RA residences were enrolled in the additional voters’ lists of Yerevan city precincts without being eliminating from the voters’ lists of their place of registration.
RA Police, as a body running RA voters’ register, assures that the applications submitted by the citizens regarding temporary withdrawal of their data from the place of registered residence voters’ list and inclusion in the additional list of place of location have been discussed and decision have been reached strictly following the features of Article 8 of RA Electoral Code.
All of the additional lists, envisaged by Article 8 of RA Electoral Code, are compiled exclusively via the software provision (automatically) which excludes the repetition of the same voters’ data in the general and additional lists.
Pursuant to Part 3 of Article 10 of RA Electoral Code, both the general and additional voters’ lists are published by an authorized body and handed to the chairmen of Regional Electoral Commissions.
At to the inclusion in the additional voters’ list as prescribed by the RA Electoral Code, this is the citizens’ exclusive right and the RA Police isn’t entitled by any legal act to restrict the realization of the aforementioned right.