The police of the Republic of Armenia are clarifying

Presidential candidate Raffi Hovhannisyan's note posted in his Facebook profile page has spread in social networks, according to which voters from different settlements of the Republic of Armenia were involved into the additional lists of Yerevan city polling stations, not being excluded from the voters' lists made according to the place of their registration. The police of the Republic of Armenia announce with all responsibility that the information spread in the internet is an obvious slander.
The police of the Republic of Armenia, as a body managing the voters’ register of the Republic of Armenia, assure, that the citizens' applications for temporal exclusion of voters’ data from the voters’ lists according to their place of registration and their inclusion into the voters’ lists made according to the voters’ whereabouts, were discussed and decisions were made in compliance with the article 8 of the Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia. Moreover, the number of voters registered in other communities, temporally excluded from the voters’ lists made according to the place of registration and included into the additional voters’ list of the polling station near to their whereabouts on the Election day, equals 14.285, while during the National Assembly elections on May 6, 2012, that number equaled 15.399.
All the additional lists stipulated by the article 8 of the RA electoral code were exclusively made by software, automatically, which excludes the repetition of the same voter’s data in the additional and primary lists.
In compliance with the part 3 of the article 10 of the RA electoral code, both the primary and additional lists were printed by the authorities and handed to the chairmen of the electoral comissions at the same time.
As for being included into the additional lists made according to voters' whereabouts in compliance with the Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia, it is the citizen's personal right which is called to more efficiently realize the citizens' voting right, and The police is not authorized to restrict it by any legal act.
The police of the Republic of Armenia again call to avoid spreading information which is not verified, based on concrete facts or lacking legal foundation.
The police of the Republic of Armenia are willing to give clarifications concerning any pertinent questions within their comission, as well as to cooperate with the candidates, citizens, supervisory organizations in restricting and detecting offences.

The police of the Republic of Armenia