“Bargavach fans”
Two young men holding black folders and wearing green shirts with the word "Armenia" on them were near the polling station at Ajapnyak district.
Two of the young men with green shirts from the 7/31 polling station of the Silikyan quarter district told "A1+" that they were "Bargavach (Prosperous Armenia) fans".
What do the numbers on the shirts mean? In response, the shaved-heads standing next to them said: "Are you going to check our pockets too? Who cares about that?"
The shaved-head was doing most of the answering for the men with the green shirts. As a resident of that district, he said: "This is our neighborhood and we're just standing here. The precinct is over there. There's nothing to look at here."
What we were looking at was how the men in green shirts were taking notes on their black folder as citizens approached. The green-shirt men at the 09/29 polling station of Ajapynak saw the "A1+" cameraman and put away the black folder.
The young man near the 06/17 polling station was a kinder "Bargavach fan" who was seriously taking notes on his black folder.
"I am making sure which members are coming to vote." How are you doing that? The young man, whose name was Karen Stepanyan, said:
"I don't know everyone, but our members come and tell us who came and who didn't."
The ballot boxes at the 06/17 polling station were placed in a way that the electoral process was out in the open. "Heritage" party representative of the commission Emma Pashinyan told "A1+" that in the beginning, the ballot boxes were placed as required by law. "Then they opened an envelope without a ballot and now there are concerns over "ballot stuffing".
President of that commission Harutyun Kocharyan did not share the view regarding the misplacement of ballot boxes and the violation of confidentiality. Mr. Kocharyan refused to talk about the possibility of "ballot stuffing" and promised to place the voting booth correctly, but didn't do anything before we left.
