Independent observers reveal violations during preparation for election in Armenia - UPDATED

  02 April 2017    Read: 3452
Independent observers reveal violations during preparation for election in Armenia - UPDATED
The observers of the Citizen Observer Initiative revealed 1700 violations during the parliamentary election in Armenia April 2, AzVision.az reports citing the Armenian media.
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15:30

The observers of the Citizen Observer Initiative revealed 681 violations during the parliamentary election in Armenia April 2, AzVision.az reports citing the Armenian media.

As of 12:00 (UTC/GMT+4), the observers revealed 98 cases of defective fingerprint scanners.

There were also 77 cases of open voting, 38 cases of violations of the secret ballot, 38 cases of a repeat vote, 37 cases of violation of the rights of the observers.

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13:38

The observers of the Citizen Observer Initiative revealed 162 violations during the preparation for the voting in the parliamentary election in Armenia as of 8:15 (UTC/GMT+4) on April 2, AzVision.az reports citing the Armenian media.

According to News-Armenia, all identified violations are being considered.

In particular, 17 district election commissions opened late, 15 polling places were improperly equipped, 18 district election commissions had technical problems, the problems with voting booths occurred at 11 district election commissions and the confidential voting terms were not observed at 18 district election commissions.

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