During the press-conference convened at “Yerkir Media” centre on February 14, 2013, the director of «Transparency International» Anti-corruption center Varuzhan Hoktanyan represented the results of the electronic monitoring of the electorate figures ahead of the presidential elections in the Republic of Armenia. According to those results, there are 196 voters in the Republic of Armenia who are over 99, and 17 addresses, at which more than 100 voters are registered. There are 10.773 addresses in the voters’ lists, at which 10 and more than 10 people are registered. There are 5.715 voters in the Republic of Armenia who are not registered at any address, and 49843 voters with no data about the day and month they were born. Hoktanyan provided an example, pointing to the fact that 22 voters entitled to vote at the polling station number 4/02, established in Arabkir administrative district, are registered at the following address: «Qanaqer children's park». 289 voters living in the same district are registered at the following address: «Qanaqer bypass tunnel». 18 voters are registered at the following address: Davitashen, 3-rd quarter, «DOSAAF» dining hall.
169 voters are registered at the following address: Ejmiatsin, state nursery garden, and 209 voters are registered in one of tha apartments on V. Sargsyan street in Qasagh hamlet, Kotayq province.
In order to exclude various comments to the information published on the internet the Police of the Republic of Armenia clarify: Davitashen, 3-rd quarter, «DOSAAF» dining hall /about 25 rooms/, Yerevan city, «Qanaqer children's park» /about 80 dwelling houses/ , Yerevan city, «Qanaqer bypass tunnel» /250 and more dwelling houses/, Armavir province, state nursery-garden /about 53 apartments/ - these are all dwelling areas with dwelling houses belonging to different families in each of them. Since those dwelling areas have no addresses the residents of the mentioned houses are registered at the same address.
The citizens who had applied to the authorities in the statutory order and were given a certificate on registration of the ownership (use) right to the real estate, have been de-registered and were registered at new addresses provided by the local self-government bodies. Those changes were reflected in the voters' register.
The legal prohibition on refusing to register citizens connected with the fact that the dwelling area has no address, was imposed by the Government decree number 1435-N adopted on November 15, 2012 /the regulation came into effect on February 1, 2013/. The registration of 10 and more than 10 people at the same address is not a discretionary power of the passport services, but the result of the owners’ legal demands and dwelling areas having no addresses, as a result of which different families are registered at the same address.
However, in order to provide the authenticity of the data being processed in the state population register the police officials visited the owners of those houses and carried out explanatory works among them, as a result of which 12.192 addresses, at which 10 and more people were registered were decreased by 3513. Together with the police of the Republic of Armenia the Armenian office of the International foundation for Electoral systems (IFES) was actively involved in the process of informing the owners of the dwelling areas. For more information visit the official website of the police of the Republic of Armenia www.police.am.
The zeros instead of the day and month citizens were born is preconditioned by the lack of those data in the documents which served as a ground for passport issue. The Police of the RA came out with a statement in the mass media on the clarification of the mentioned problem: in the context of the electoral processes of the National Assembly elections in the Republic of Armenia on May 6, 2012.
As for the 196 voters’ data, who are over 99, it should be mentioned that according to the part 1 of the article 2 of the Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia, the citizens of the Republic of Armenia who have attained the age of 18 years have the right to vote. Therefore the law doesn’t stipulate an upper age bound of the franchise.
The police of the Republic of Armenia once more clarify that the voters’ register of the Republic of Armenia is exclusively made on the basis of the State population register and while making the voters’ lists all the requirements for the voters’ lists set by the Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia, are taken as a basis.
The police of the Republic of Armenia assure that none of the information spread on the internet by the director of «Transparency International» Anti-corruption center Varuzhan Hoktanyan are considered inaccurate from the point of view of the RA Electoral Code.