Across this young voter's forehead is the name of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), the opposition party started by former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan. The girl and thousands of others attended one last rally on Friday, May 29, in front of the Manthanaderan Museum in Central Yerevan. PHOTO BY GAYANE AVETISYAN.

 

 

A voter on election day.

An observer keeps an eye on an open ballot box during the election on May 31. PHOTO BY IA GAVASHELI.

Commission members of a local Yerevan precinct counting ballots after the polls closed. PHOTO BY SOPHIO EBRALIDZE.

 

In Precinct 08/19 (Malatia-Sebastia, where many irregularities were discovered), an observer noted an unstamped envelope. The non-stamped envelopes are usually a sign of ballot stuffing, and this vote was invalidated, but the precinct chairman hid all other envelopes so no one could see the remaining ballots. PHOTO BY SOPHIO EBRALIDZE.

 

Later, commission members at precinct 08/19 took a dinner break between counting, and left the ballot box alone - another potential opportunity for ballot stuffing or other tampering with vote counts. PHOTO BY SOPHIO EBRALIDZE.

The chairman of the commission at precinct 08/19 gazes at the piles of ballots before him. PHOTO BY SOPHIO EBRALIDZE.

It ultimately took the commission at precinct 8/19 four hours to count less than 900 ballots. PHOTO BY SOPHIO EBRALIDZE.