VOTER LISTS ‘PURGED’ FROM INELIGIBLE VOTERS
Armenpress
Apr 19 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 19, ARMENPRESS: Alina Zakarian, chief of an Armenian
police department in charge of passports and visas, which is also
vested with the authority to compile voter lists, said to a news
conference today her subordinates ‘purged’ the lists from deceased
and other ineligible voters, which now have overall 2,318,493 names,
by 10, 254 less than a month ago.
She said in the last 10 days lone 311 citizens exchanged their old,
Soviet passports with new ones and another 3,550 have changed their
residence.
She said also some problems were caused by inclusion of servicemen
into voter lists, but the army’s general staff has sent the lists of
young men having currently their mandatory military service to all
police departments to withdraw their names form the lists.
She said also by April 8 1,720 deceased people’s names were withdrawn
from the lists and 50 people used the hotline telephone number to
report about other inaccuracies.