Almost all over Armenia reports on voting secrecy violations are being received, Hovsep Khurshudyan, the spokesperson of the electoral headquarters of the Armenian presidential candidate, leader of the Heritage Party Raffi Hovannisian told the journalists

According to him, during the last hours the reports on violations have almost doubled.

“I have never seen so many violations. Except for physical attacks, we have received reports on all other types of violations from our representatives (in the election commissions and as observers), and the reports from the citizens,” Khurshudyan said.

According to him, ballot stuffing, and voting secrecy violation cases have reached massive amounts, especially in rural areas where public awareness of the electoral process is inevitably weaker than in the cities.

“In many cases heads of village administrations were on site and either recommended to vote for the candidate from the authorities, or directly entered into the booth and pressured the voters. In all these cases bribes had been previously distributed to the voters. Now, apparently, authorities watched, how the money was ‘returned’,” Khurshudyan said.

A complete list of violations - the Heritage party has already collected several dozen - will be given to the press in a short while.

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