CEC DECLINES PROPOSAL ON GIVING RIGHT TO VOTE BY MAJORITARIAN SYSTEM TO PEOPLE RECEIVING HOSPITAL TREATMENT

Noyan Tapan
Feb 27 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 27, NOYAN TAPAN. At the February 27 sitting, RA
Central Electoral Commission (CEC) with 3 votes in favor and 6 opposed
declined the proposal of Ardarutiun (Justice) bloc representative Felix
Khachatrian on giving the right to vote by not only proportional, but
also majoritarian systems to citizens receiving hospital treatment. To
recap, according to the Electoral Code, citizens being at hospitals
have the right to vote only during elections held by proportional
system. At the sitting CEC unanimously approved the form and size of
ballot-boxes, as well as determined the form and specimen of voting
envelope. According to the decision adopted by CEC, a ballot-box will
be transparent, will have the form of right-angled parallelepiped. The
ballot-box gap, in the words of CEC Chairman Garegin Azarian, will
be decreased from 21 mm determined at the previous elections to 15 mm
"for avoiding stuffing of ballot-boxes."