CHARGES OF FALSIFYING VOTING RESULTS BROUGHT AGAINST 9 MEMBERS OF No 15/16 POLLING STATION’S ELECTORAL COMMISSION

Noyan Tapan
May 21 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. The prosecutor’s office of Aragatsotn
marz completed the investigation into the criminal case opened
in connection with the fact of falsifying the voting results, as
a result of which charges were brought against 9 members of the
electoral commission of polling station No 15/16.

The investigation has revealed and substantiated that after the end
of the elections to the RA National Assembly on May 12, 2007, being
motivated by personal interest, Armen Eloyan, chairman of precinct
electoral commission No 16 (electoral district No 15) located in the
village of Getashen (Armavir marz), during the counting of votes by
the propotional electoral system, put 92 ballots with votes in favor
of a number of parties on the ballots with votes for such parties as
"Prosperous Armenia" party, "Alliance" party, Republican Party of
Armenia, People’s Party of Armenia, United Labor Party and "Orinats
Yerkir" party. On 21 out of the 91 extinguished ballots, he made marks
for United Labor Party, on 20 ballots – for "Orinats Yerkir" party, on
12 ballots – for "Alliance" party, on 38 ballots – for Republican Party
of Armenia, and then he put them on legally voted ballots – by parties.

Along with committing the above mentioned actions, A. Eloyan, while
summarizing the final results of the voting by the proportional
electoral system, made obvious mistakes in the counting of votes
and dictated it to the commission secretary Gyulnara Grigorian, who,
being aware of these figures’s being false, put them in the summary
protocol, after which A. Eloyan and G. Grigorian, as well as the
commission members Vasil Yenokian, Saro Petrosian, Manvel Shahinian,
Magtagh Kyarimian, Davit Gevorgian and Garik Abgarian approved the
summary protocol with the obviously wrong data in it, thus falsifying
the voting results.

According to a press relase of the RA Prosecutor General’s Office,
based on the evidence obtained, charges were brought against A. Eloyan,
G. Grigorian, V. Yenokian, S. Petrosian, M. Shahinian, M. Kyarimian,
D. Gevorgian, G. Abgarian and H. Khachatrian under Article 150 of
the Criminal Code of the RA.

The criminal case was sent on May 21 to the court of first instance
of Armavir marz for examination.