Very high voter turnout and huge margins of President Serzh Sarkisian's victory registered by election bodies in many communities across Armenia are not an indication of fraud in last month's presidential ballot, a senior pro-government lawmaker said on Monday.
Artak Davtian of the ruling Republican Party (HHK) reacted to the latest report by election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe that questioned the credibility of official votes results.
In the report released on Saturday, the OSCE's vote-monitoring mission in Armenia expressed concern at "a correlation between very high turnout and the number of votes for the incumbent." It described as "implausibly high" a turnout of more than 80 percent that was recorded in 144 precincts, compared with the official nationwide rate of 60 percent. Sarkisian got over 80 percent of votes cast in the vast majority of those mostly rural communities, according to the Central Election Commission (CEC).
Armenian News
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