Lragir, Armenia
Feb 14 2008
150 YEAR-OLD VOTERS
The election office of the presidential candidate Arthur Baghdasaryan
works with the police department of visa and passports and all the
community policemen to get the list of voters who wish to vote in
other polling stations, stated Heghine Bisharyan, head of election
office, on February 14 at the Pastark Club. She says they need this
information because they have learned about mass passport collecting
efforts, which means that the so-called additional registers of
voters will be sham. For instance, Heghine Bisharyan said they have
learned that a great number of false passports have been collected at
the department of visa and passports.
According to the head of the election office of Arthur Baghdasaryan,
there is information that the chairs of all the election commissions
have received immense sums to settle all problems with the members of
commissions. Heghine Bisharyan also said that the chair of one of the
election commissions of Artashat forged the signature of the
representative of the Orinats Yerkir Party to the commission and
appointed Republicans to the election commissions of the villages of
Mkhchyan and Shahumyan. The member of the OYP learned about the fraud
and demanded repealing appointments, however the chair of the
commission delayed it until after the deadline. Heghine Bisharyan
said she has appealed to the office of prosecutor general, as well as
international observers, asking to pay more attention to the villages
because there will be mass election fraud there.
Heghine Bisharyan revealed some interesting figures from the voters’
registers provided by the police. Hence, the dates of birth of 74
thousand voters are missing, 1150 voters have no address. There is
also one voter born in 1899, 270 voters born in 277 and 488 voters
born in 1912. It means there are voters who are 150 years old,
Heghine Bisharyan says.
She said this makes worry about election fraud on February 19. In
this connection, the head of Arthur Baghdasaryan’s election office
says unfortunately the political forces have not responded to the
proposal of the Orinats Yerkir Party to set up a joint office for
controlling election fraud.