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Decision 2013: Bizarre incidents of rebellion included in vote-casting
http://armenianow.com/vote_2013/43620/armenia_presidential_election_voting_fraud
VOTE 2013 | 18.02.13 | 17:24
Photo: www.galatv.am
By GAYANE MKRTCHYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
Mock-violations of Vote 2013 immediately get reported by online media
or are shared and ridiculed in social networks.
Early in the morning there was information that at one of the polling
stations in New Nork 4th massif (Yerevan suburb) voter Artur Minasyan
ate the ballot.
According to Free Reporters' Network, Minasyan entered the polling
station, received his ballot from the election committee, went to the
voting booth, in a while came out, but rather than dropping the
envelope into the ballot box, he stood in the middle of the room and
shouting `No to the criminal regime, freedom to Tigran Arakelyan' call
ate the ballot which had `No to Fake Elections' written on it, then
put the empty sealed envelope into the box. (Arakelyan is a member of
oppositional bloc Armenian National Congress convicted for six years
for `insulting a police officer'.)
Later Gyumri-based GALA TV employees have circulated news that a woman
went to their TV and reported that she had been given 5,000 drams
($12) which she put in the envelope with the ballot and wrote `I am
not for sale, tell that to Serzh Sargsyan.'
`I could never actually take a bribe, but this time I took it and did
so with the purpose of having that ballot sent to Serzh. Let him see
that not everybody is for sale,' said the woman.
The woman had taken photos of both the 5,000-note and the ballot with
her note on it.
At another polling station in Yerevan the safe-deposit box key
reportedly broke, and the voting stopped because the election
committee members had no access to new ballots and envelopes kept in
it.
The Civil Society Institute NGO posted on its website that at a
polling station in Yerevan's Avan district one of the NGO's observers
noticed a big crack on the bottom part of the ballot box, through
which `it would be possible to slide in an envelope'.
At one of Nubarashen polling stations a voter dropped into the box his
driving license together with the ballot.
At a polling place in Noragyugh Aravot.am reporter witnessed two
women's argument, one of whom yelling at the other was trying to prove
that the other had taken a bribe. When the reporter approached them
and asked what money they were talking about, one of the women said:
`What business of yours is that? We have bought clothes, I got
panties, a shirt, and we are now talking about the money we owe.'
From: A. Papazian
http://armenianow.com/vote_2013/43620/armenia_presidential_election_voting_fraud
VOTE 2013 | 18.02.13 | 17:24
Photo: www.galatv.am
By GAYANE MKRTCHYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
Mock-violations of Vote 2013 immediately get reported by online media
or are shared and ridiculed in social networks.
Early in the morning there was information that at one of the polling
stations in New Nork 4th massif (Yerevan suburb) voter Artur Minasyan
ate the ballot.
According to Free Reporters' Network, Minasyan entered the polling
station, received his ballot from the election committee, went to the
voting booth, in a while came out, but rather than dropping the
envelope into the ballot box, he stood in the middle of the room and
shouting `No to the criminal regime, freedom to Tigran Arakelyan' call
ate the ballot which had `No to Fake Elections' written on it, then
put the empty sealed envelope into the box. (Arakelyan is a member of
oppositional bloc Armenian National Congress convicted for six years
for `insulting a police officer'.)
Later Gyumri-based GALA TV employees have circulated news that a woman
went to their TV and reported that she had been given 5,000 drams
($12) which she put in the envelope with the ballot and wrote `I am
not for sale, tell that to Serzh Sargsyan.'
`I could never actually take a bribe, but this time I took it and did
so with the purpose of having that ballot sent to Serzh. Let him see
that not everybody is for sale,' said the woman.
The woman had taken photos of both the 5,000-note and the ballot with
her note on it.
At another polling station in Yerevan the safe-deposit box key
reportedly broke, and the voting stopped because the election
committee members had no access to new ballots and envelopes kept in
it.
The Civil Society Institute NGO posted on its website that at a
polling station in Yerevan's Avan district one of the NGO's observers
noticed a big crack on the bottom part of the ballot box, through
which `it would be possible to slide in an envelope'.
At one of Nubarashen polling stations a voter dropped into the box his
driving license together with the ballot.
At a polling place in Noragyugh Aravot.am reporter witnessed two
women's argument, one of whom yelling at the other was trying to prove
that the other had taken a bribe. When the reporter approached them
and asked what money they were talking about, one of the women said:
`What business of yours is that? We have bought clothes, I got
panties, a shirt, and we are now talking about the money we owe.'
From: A. Papazian