Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Saturday questioned the credibility of official results of Armenia's presidential election, saying that President Serzh Sarkisian benefited from "implausibly high" voter turnout recorded in many precincts.
The OSCE's election observation mission pointed to "a correlation between very high turnout and the number of votes for the incumbent." "This raises concerns regarding the confidence over the integrity of the electoral process," it said in a post-election interim report.
Citing the final results released by the Central Election Commission (CEC), the mission noted that more than 80 percent of eligible voters ostensibly cast ballots in 144 of the nearly 2,000 polling stations across Armenia. Sarkisian got over 80 percent of the vote in 115 of them, according to the CEC.
Armenian News
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