Armenia 2012: 20 Polling Stations Where the Turnout Count Went Down
At 20 polling stations the official turnout fell between two reports, by 4,273 people in total. In Achajur it fell by 1,422 in three hours.
Original page on electionscount.info: “Negative” participation, 2012
How to read this table
Turnout reports at 11:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00 are cumulative, so each must be at least as high as the one before. The table lists every station where a report was lower. Total is the decrease; the last three columns show in which report it appeared.
What it shows
- Achajur (Tavush), station 40/39: the 14:00 report was 1,422 lower than the 11:00 one.
- Talin (Aragatsotn), stations 15/30 and 15/29: 655 and 423 lower at 17:00.
- Orgov (468), Agarakavan (392) and Akunk (145), Aragatsotn: lower at 20:00.
- Aygehat, 32/57: 381 lower at 17:00.
Concentrated in a few places
The 20 decreases add up to 4,273 voters. Five stations of one territorial commission in Aragatsotn (Talin, Orgov, Agarakavan, Akunk) account for 2,083 of them, almost half, and Achajur alone for a third. Most of the other cases are small, from 1 to 23 people, and could be typing errors that were never corrected; the large ones cannot.
A count that falls by hundreds means that an earlier report announced voters who later were not there, or that the final protocol was cut back. Either way the station's numbers contradict each other. The same pattern reappeared in later elections: 5 stations in the 2015 referendum and 9 in 2017–2021, always far fewer than in 2012.
Each station's chart, explained
The monitoring site drew a chart of speed, voters per 3 hours and cumulative turnout for each of the 20 stations. They are explained one by one in five articles: Arabkir and Shengavit, Talin, Orgov, Agarakavan and Akunk, Charchakis and Aygestan, six villages, and Achajur, Goris, Akner, Barekamavan and Dilijan.
Data and sources on this site
From the book
This article is based on Chapters IV and VI of Electoral Rights and Election Falsification by Lyudvig Khachatryan, which explains the full method, the formulas and the cases behind it.