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AN ARGUMENT AT NO. 2/3 POLLING PLACE; THEY VOTED FOR KING PAP AND THE SON-IN-LAW OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
February 20 2013
There were voters at no. 2/3 polling place who preferred King Pap and
Mikayel Sargsyan, Serzh Sargsyan's son-in-law, to the 8 candidates for
president. Today during the recalculation of ballots at no. 2/3
polling place of no. 2 electoral district, the members of the
commission recalled this funny voting. During the recalculation,
besides recalling anecdotes, Styopa Safaryan, a representative of the
Heritage Party, and the members of the commission debated for a long
time whether they should consider three ballots among those cast for
Serzh Sargsyan void or not. Mr. Safaryan likened the mark on one of
the ballots to an Armenian letter Õ~M, and the members of the commission
likened it to a Latin letter V and explained it as a result of the
quivering of a voter's hand. "He wrote the letter Õ~M, it is not a check
mark; this is absolutely void, ladies and gentlemen. So one can write
any letter of the alphabet in the box, and all of them will be valid,
bravo!" said Mr. Safaryan, opposing the members of the commission who
considered it a valid ballot after claiming persistently. They
separated a few ballots from among those cast for Raffi Hovhannisyan
too, suspecting them of being void. On those ballots the mark was
bold, and the members of the commission, not having grounds to
consider them void, found them valid, "We don't wish to go on about
that; we say: 'Good for that man, let him take his votes.'" At the end
of the recalculation, Mr. Safaryan and the members of the commission
started to argue again. Details in the video
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/02/20/152391/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
February 20 2013
There were voters at no. 2/3 polling place who preferred King Pap and
Mikayel Sargsyan, Serzh Sargsyan's son-in-law, to the 8 candidates for
president. Today during the recalculation of ballots at no. 2/3
polling place of no. 2 electoral district, the members of the
commission recalled this funny voting. During the recalculation,
besides recalling anecdotes, Styopa Safaryan, a representative of the
Heritage Party, and the members of the commission debated for a long
time whether they should consider three ballots among those cast for
Serzh Sargsyan void or not. Mr. Safaryan likened the mark on one of
the ballots to an Armenian letter Õ~M, and the members of the commission
likened it to a Latin letter V and explained it as a result of the
quivering of a voter's hand. "He wrote the letter Õ~M, it is not a check
mark; this is absolutely void, ladies and gentlemen. So one can write
any letter of the alphabet in the box, and all of them will be valid,
bravo!" said Mr. Safaryan, opposing the members of the commission who
considered it a valid ballot after claiming persistently. They
separated a few ballots from among those cast for Raffi Hovhannisyan
too, suspecting them of being void. On those ballots the mark was
bold, and the members of the commission, not having grounds to
consider them void, found them valid, "We don't wish to go on about
that; we say: 'Good for that man, let him take his votes.'" At the end
of the recalculation, Mr. Safaryan and the members of the commission
started to argue again. Details in the video
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/02/20/152391/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia