RA PARLIAMENTARIANS AND EXPERTS OF CE VENETIAN COMMISSION TO DISCUSS
REFORMS OF ARMENIA’S ELECTORAL CODE

Yerevan, August 25. ArmInfo. RA Parliamentarians and experts of the CE
Venetian Commission will discuss the supposed reforms of the country’s
electoral code.

As Galust Sahakyan, the leader of the Republican party of Armenia,
said in an interview to "Hayots Ashkhar", the proposals of experts,
approved by Parliamentarians, will enter the draft changes. In
particular, the Venetian Commission proposed to bring back the
practice of using portable electoral boxes during elections, for
the invalids and the persons being in hospitals the election day,
could vote. This proposal is disputable, Sahakyan said as, in the
opinion of the opposition representatives, using of portable boxes
is an efficient mechanism for falsifications.

He also noted it would be interesting to know the opinion of
international experts regarding the issue of implementing a system of
electronic voting, which the opposition insists on. As for the issue
of ink marking of the voters’ fingers, Sahakyan said that it does
not protect the elections from a "roundabout" and delays the process.