Edited list: Armenian police say the number of voters has been decreased after being checked

The Passport and Visa Department of the Police of Armenia reports that as a result of checking the lists of voters the number of voters was decreased by 3,000; 2,000 are deceased and 1,000 are removed from the state registry list.

According to Hovhannes Kocharyan, head of the Passport and Visa Department of the Police, the reason why names of dead people were included on the voters' list was that they had received insufficient data from the Civil Status Registration Office of the Ministry of Justice.

"The relatives of the dead people are also to be blamed for it, because they do not submit the information about their dead relatives to the registration office. The number of Armenians who died abroad also makes a great percentage; they are registered as dead abroad, and of course, the state registry is not informed about their death," Kocharyan says.  Read more... (413 words)

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