ARF election proxy Gevorg Khoudinyan informed Hetq that a voter named Razmik Khanamyan told him that someone else had voted for five people registered at his address but who are now living in Moscow.

Khoudinyan said that he was scouring the voter rolls to verify the information and that he had filed a formal complaint with local election president Armen Simonyan.

Khoudinyan added that Simonyan told him that such an occurrence was impossible given the number of reporters and monitors at the polling station.

Simonyan argued that there wasn’t enough time to compare all those coming in to vote with the registered names on the voter rolls and warned Khoudinyan that criminal charges would be levied for irresponsibly accusing others of such fraud.

(Hovhannes Vardanyan)