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SHAVARSH KOCHARYAN HAS THE KEY TO FAIR ELECTIONS
03:25 pm 22 March, 2006
Leader of the National Democratic Party Shavarsh Kocharyan has
processed a program together with the NGO `Democracy’. According to
Kocharyan, in case the program is put into execution, it will be
practically impossible to tamper with the elections. Shavarsh
Kocharyan has not doubt about the efficiency of the control
program. He represented the program which is at present being
discussed in OSCE.
If the program is ratified, during the 2007 elections two foreign
observers will be present in every electoral area. They will be
present since early in the morning until the end of the calculation.
According to Kocharyan, about 4000 observers are needed. `4000 is a
large number, but there are countries, where more than ten thousand
observers have been sent; for example Ukraine’. According to
Kocharyan’s calculations, the expenditures for one observer are about
1000 USD, and for 4000 observers – four million USD.
The other issue refers to inner control: every polling station must
have a computer, and no one in the station can access the computer. It
is connected to the server and has its `twins’ in the OSCE office and
in the Central Electoral Committee. `That is to say, interference is
practically impossible’. Every station has its computer with different
accessories. First – every ballot box has a bug on it which states the
hour, minute and second and number of voting. Second – All the polling
stations have cameras and monitors which shoot the whole process of
voting. Third – when the passports are checked, they are immediately
photocopied and scanned and thy remain in the memory of the computer
to avoid their double use.
Everything is connected to the net and every citizen can surf in the
internet and watch what is going on in the station he is interested
in, as what is shot in the station is not for the archive but for
online broadcasting.
According to Shavarsh Kocharyan, the program will cost about 2.5-3
million USD, including tutoring.