On 18
February 2013, on the Elections Day, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Civil Society
Institute received 54 calls on its hotline 080 080 804, 60 more reports and calls were received by CSI
observers  who visited more than 350
polling stations and reported about the voting process and registered violations.

The
majority of calls related to the following issues:

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Guidance by the members of the Commission and
proxies,

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Gatherings and poorly controlled situations at
the polling stations,

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Instances of assistance to the elderly people involving
failure to undergo required registration, not asking their opinions and lack of justification to
provide assistance,

–  
Presence of two-three people at the same time at
the polling booth,

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Instances of open ballot voting,

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Instances of double voting,

–  
Temporary absence of the Chairs of Commissions
from the polling stations under various excuses and justifications,

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Instances of transfer of voters to and from the
polling station by cars,

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Instances of checking the presence of voters and enlisting
them by unknown people,

–  
Instances of distributing some papers nearby the
polling stations (in
the opinion of the observers, these were temporary documents replacing the
passports (aka 9-th form)),

–  
Presence of unauthorized people at the polling
stations who guided voters,

–  
Reports about ink stamp in passports vanishing
and being erased,

–  
Instances of violation of the right to secrecy of
ballot (members of the Commissions and
proxies were standing very close to the polling booth, voters stated loudly for
whom they had voted in the polling room, there were mirrors on the wall behind
the polling booth),

–  
Unlawful campaigning (a song “To the secure Armenia” was played in the vicinity
of a polling station, a poster of Serzh Sargsyan was posted on the wall of a
polling station),

There were also outstanding issues  registered, e.g. one of the voters threw in
his driving license together with the ballot.

For more details see here.