“Zhoghovurd learned that 48,676,000 drams [approx. $117,247] were spent for the preparation of the stamps, and 13.9 million drams [approx. $33,480], to acquire them and the disappearing ink [to be stamped on the passports of the voters that have cast their ballots] for the National Assembly elections. The CEC also spent 14.8 million drams [approx. $35,650] to obtain disappearing ink for the presidential elections.
“And despite the amount that was spent, the result was the same every time. The ink disappeared much earlier than expected. As a result, this gave the [political] opposition grounds to claim that in this way the authorities enabled multiple voting for the election riggers,” Zhoghovurd writes.
