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Byurakan, Armenia: Voting in a Car
Four elderly residents of Byurakan, a community in Armenia’s Aragatzotn Province, cast their ballot in a car parked outside the polling station.
Election Committee President Artashes Mkrtchyan told this reporter that the four couldn’t make it into the polling station due to mobility issues.
Committee member Narineh Tadevosyan said that Byurakan residents always turn out in large numbers for local elections and the crowds waiting to cast their ballots backed her up.
Some voters are known to enter the voting booth with their spouses if they have trouble reading the ballot.
Others bring friends or family members to help them cast their ballot.
“Many want to vote. This is the reason they bring assistants with them. Then too, this isn’t Europe where all voting related problems have been solved, Mkrtchyan added.
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