After Parliament elections voting procedure ended in Armenia at 20:00 (UTC/GMT+4), Armenian Attorney General Office informed that it has reviewed 1,594 electoral violations reports submitted to the office, AzVision.az reports citing the Armenian media.

According to the Attorney General Office, the vast majority of submitted reports (1,340 reports) did not contain any apparent electoral violation but rather refer to the technical procedures of the voting process, polling booths installation, problems with surveillance devices or other technical issues. Other reports were related to the issues already solved.

Overall, 254 submitted reports contained possible reports about electoral violations. Out of these 254, 87 reports were related to the multiple votes (or vote attempts) by the same person; 74 reports were related to the attempts to repress free voting process; 45 reports were related to violations of the secrecy of voting process; 38 reports were related to the attempts to violate rights of journalists, proxies, or observers; 10 reports were related to the cases of bribery.

Selected 254 reports were sent to the Armenia’s regional prosecutor’s offices and police stations for further investigation.

Armenia is holding parliamentary elections for the first time since new Constitution was approved by means of referendum in December 2015. The new parliament will have 105 deputies, four of them representatives of ethnic minorities.

A total of 2009 electoral precincts is operating throughout the country. These elections are the only national elections in the next five years, as Armenia is shifting to parliamentary republic.

Five parties and four political blocs are running for the parliament. Political parties have to get five percent of votes, while blocs need seven to be elected to the parliament.


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19:46

The working group set within the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia has examined 1317 reports on electoral frauds by 18:00 (UTC/GMT+4), AzVision.az reports citing the Armenian media.

As “Armenpress” was informed from the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the majority of the reports are about technical problems such as failure of recording devices, queues at polling stations, error of machines (designed for taking fingerprints), or other organizational issues which contain no features of electoral crime.

226 reports contain features of electoral crimes and have been sent to the regional offices of the Police and Investigative Committee to prepare materials.

82 of these 226 cases are about double voting or voting instead of another, 43 are about violation of the confidentiality of voting, 28 are about obstruction of the activities of media representatives, proxies, observers, or members of commissions, 64 are about violation of free implementation of electoral right of citizens, and 9 are about electoral bribes.

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18:18

On April 2, as of 15:00 (UTC/GMT+4), the task group of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia examined 970 reports on electoral frauds registered during voting, the Office told, AzVision.az reports citing the Armenian media.

Most of the reports related to technical issues in connection with organization of voting process, equipment of voting rooms, operation of devices, overcrowding in polling stations, failure of operation of camera devices which didn’t contain criminal elements of electoral essences.

131 of the abovementioned reports contained criminal elements of electoral essences. In order to reveal the circumstances of the 131 reports, they were sent to Police departments.

48 out of 131 reports related to voting instead of other person or double voting, 26 related to violation of voting secrecy, 15 to obstructing the working activity of media representative, trustee, observer, commission, 11 to obstructing the free exercise of electoral right of a citizen, and 8 to bribery cases.

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14:28

The task group of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia on April 2, as of 13:00, examined 729 reports on electoral offenses from which 75 contain criminal elements, AzVision.az reports citing the Armenian Media.

In order to clarify the circumstances of the abovementioned reports, 75 cases were sent to the Police departments.

41 out of 75 reports related to double voting or voting instead of other person, 25 related to the violation of voting secrecy, and 9 related to obstructing the free exercise of electoral rights of citizens.


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11:03

The working group, which is set up by the order of the Prosecutor General of Armenia, has considered reports of electoral fraud, AzVision.az reports citing the Armenian Media.

57 reports contained elements of apparent electoral fraud, Office of the Prosecutor General told.

They were forwarded to Police of Armenia, to clarify the circumstances specified in these reports.

A total 46 of these 57 reports referred to apparent buying of votes, and 11—preventing the free exercise of suffrage.

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