Election Frauds in TECs 29, 30 and 31during the Voting Day
00:00, February 20, 2008 | Electoral Rights
On February 19, HCA Vanadzor sent TECs 29, 30, 31 and to Central Election Commission (CEC) information on election frauds in different Lori region PECs. Particularly:
• There were crowds in PEC 29/08. There were about 50 people at the same time and the situation was out of control.
• There were cases of open voting in PEC 29/21. All the voters put their ballots into the envelope after openly showing it. We turned to them but the chairperson did not stop it and open voting went on. The proxy of Serge Sargsyan provided voters with special pens and took back after voting. Two citizens received ballots with other’s passports, they put the mark but when the observer noticed the fact a PEC member did not allow them to put it into the ballot box.
• From PEC 29/23 we got information that the ballot papers were taken to the municipality.
• In PEC 30/29 the right of our observer to free movement was restricted.
• There were crowds in PECs 30/29, 30/27, 30/09 and 30/10. The chairpersons did nothing to prevent this.
• In PEC 30/25 our observers recorded a case of two people in the same voting booth. Two such cases were sent to CEC.
• In 32/02 pressure was put on our observer and she had to leave the PEC.
• In PEC 31/15 there were two cases of voting without putting stamp in the passport, but the commission did not make a protocol on the cases.
In 31/15 Gyulnara Ramazyan conducted observation from the NGO “The Choice is Yours”, but she is also a member of Republican party. HCA Vanadzor suggested stopping the observation mission of the NGO “The Choice is Yours” and take them out of the PECs.