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    ARMENIA'S POPULATION = 2,800,000; REGISTERED VOTERS = 2,485,844. MISTAKE OR DECEIT?
    By Gayane Abrahamyan

    30.03.12 | 15:07
    ArmeniaNow reporter

    Members of Armenia's opposition parties are saying that substantial
    inaccuracies on voting lists, which will become the "greatest
    opportunity for violations during the upcoming elections."

    Today Heritage Party will appeal to the Prosecutor's Office demanding
    to carry out an investigation regarding the inaccuracies of the
    voting lists.

    According to the official data reported this week, the number of
    voters in Armenia is 2,485,844; this index has been increased since
    the Presidential elections in 2008 by 170,000 voters.

    Many believe that such a growth is impossible given the rate of
    emigration, as well as the preliminary data of the census taken last
    year, according to which about 2,800,000 people live in Armenia.

    "These are simply absurd figures. Theoretically it is impossible
    that the number of people under 18 is only 400,000 in Armenia. The
    exaggeration of the electorate's number is the simplest method of
    ballot box stuffing, which is attempted to be implemented by the
    authorities," head of Heritage faction Styopa Safaryan told ArmeniaNow.

    By the time the Police in its statement published on Thursday insist
    that the assumptions about the figure's being exaggerated "do not
    correspond to reality," information to the contrary had been posted
    on Facebook.

    Edgar Tamaryan, 25, a Facebook user, found his relatives - who in
    fact live in Georgia - included on the voter registration list as
    living in Yerevan.

    Further, more than 100 people were "registered" as living at that
    same address.

    "I have checked the names and last names of those people (registered
    in that apartment) one by one, and to my surprise I found a person
    with my last name - Tamaryan (Nodarin) Aigaz," Tamaryan writes.

    "Because Tamaryan is a unique last name, and all of them who have
    that last name are our relatives, it turned out that Tamaryan Aigaz
    is a resident of Nardevan village. Studying that list more carefully,
    I saw that all the 101 people [registered at one and the same address]
    are from Nardevan. My mother is from Georgia's Nardevan village by
    birth, and she has even recognized one of her classmates [named on
    the list] and some other residents of our village," Tamaryan writes.

    A representative of the Passport and Visa Department of the Police of
    Armenia told ArmeniaNow that "probably it is again a technical matter,"
    and they are aware of it and have already taken corresponding measures
    to check the lists.




    From: A. Papazian
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