Armenia 2015 Referendum: 107 Polling Stations That Voted Faster Than Physically Possible

With a limit of 44 seconds per voter, 107 polling stations registered voters faster than possible. Their turnout was 70.69% and YES took about 77%.

By Lyudvig Khachatryan · November 11, 2026

The page “Referendum in Armenia 2015” on the monitoring site answers one question for every polling station of the 6 December 2015 constitutional referendum: did voters register faster than is physically possible? It takes the official turnout reports at 11:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00, works out the average time per voter in each 3-hour window, and marks in red every station where that time was shorter than a limit you choose.

How to read this

• Limit field (44): the shortest time, in seconds, in which one voter can be registered by the set procedure. Type your own figure, for example one you measured, and press Search.
• Turnout fields (> 0 %, < 100 %): show only stations whose turnout is within the range you enter.
• Totals: how many stations broke the limit, with their voters, participants and turnout.
• Table: one row per such station: province, station, voters, participants, turnout, speed (the fastest 3-hour average, seconds per voter), and YES and NO as shares of participants and of all voters. Click a row to see the station's 3-hour turnout chart.

A station with two voter lists has two registration tables, so it may register two voters in the same time; the page takes this into account.

What it shows

With the default limit of 44 seconds, 107 polling stations registered voters faster than possible in at least one 3-hour window. They had 177,451 voters and 125,439 participants, a turnout of 70.69%, against 50.74% in the country as a whole.

How to read this

Each bar is the page's total for a different limit. Lower limits are more cautious: they flag only stations that were faster than even a very quick registration.

What it shows

• 30 s: 13 stations, 14,317 participants.
• 40 s: 59 stations, 72,746 participants.
• 44 s: 107 stations, 125,439 participants.
• 55 s: 333 stations, 346,458 participants.
• 60 s: 480 stations, 480,441 participants.

Even with a limit of 30 seconds, which assumes a voter can show an ID, be found, sign and receive a ballot and envelope in half a minute, 13 stations are still too fast.

How to read this

Each bar counts how many of the 107 stations flagged at 44 seconds are in that province.

What it shows

Ararat alone has 33, almost a third, followed by Yerevan (19), Armavir (12), Kotayk (11) and Gegharkunik (10). Ararat is also the province with the highest turnout and YES share in the province results.

The fastest stations

The stations that needed the least time per voter in their busiest 3 hours:

Aygavan's station 18/27 reported 97.4% turnout and a speed of 24 seconds per voter. In Nerkin Khndzoresk (37/30) 823 of 843 voters took part, and 99.88% of them voted YES. Most of these stations are in the same villages that stand out in the community charts.

How they voted

Across the 107 stations, YES took about 77% of participants and NO about 20%. In the whole country YES had 63.37%. Eleven of the 107 stations gave YES 90% or more, and 31 had turnout of 80% or more.

Six of the 107 have a speed of −1: 01/22 (Nor Nork), 11/07 (Erebuni), 12/11 (Shengavit), 14/05 (Ashtarak (town)), 25/34 (Lernanist), 36/29 (Hayrenyats). These are stations where a later turnout report was lower than an earlier one, an impossible decrease, which the page counts as a broken limit too.

Why this matters

A polling station that registers people faster than it physically can must have added signatures that no voter wrote. When those stations also show far higher turnout and a far larger YES share than the rest of the country, the extra turnout is a measure of how many ballots were added. The method is explained in polling station capacity; the same check for 2017–2021 is in the turnout and speed table.

The referendum conclusions on the site, written with an earlier version of the data, give 474 stations under 60 seconds and 327 under 55; the page today gives 480 and 333.

Try it yourself: open the page, change 44 to any number of seconds, and press Search.