ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Feb 18 2008

Independent monitoring to prevent fraud in Armenian presidential
election

YEREVAN, February 18. /ARKA/. Independent monitoring make it possible
to avoid possible fraud in Armenian presidential election, Stepan
Safaryan, the head of Zharangutyun (Heritage) parliamentary faction,
said on Monday at a press conference.

`Concurrently with the official monitoring, Heritage party will count
votes and record election irregularities’, he said.

Safaeyan said that the party possesses information about election
bribery in Noraduz and Zovuni villages and Yerevan’s Kanaker-Zeyrun
and South-Western districts.

He also said that ballot papers with necessary tick on them are
already given to some citizens and their passports marked.

`The party also possesses information confirming election
illegalities, and we intend to make them public soon’, the lawmaker
said adding that Heritage has observers at all polling stations.-0—