Polling Stations Where the Turnout Count Went Down, 2017–2021
Turnout can only grow during election day. At nine polling stations the official reports say it fell.
Original page on electionscount.info: Turnout and voting speed at polling stations, 2017, 2018, 2021The turnout reports at 11:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00 are cumulative: each one counts everyone who has voted since 8:00. So each report must be equal to or higher than the one before. The table on the site subtracts each report from the next; a negative result means the count went down.
| Year | Station | Community | Area | Voters | 8–11 | 11–14 | 14–17 | 17–20 | Final participants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2/49 | Nor Nork | Yerevan ED 1 | 1,466 | 240 | 300 | 440 | -61 | 919 |
| 2017 | 13/51 | Kaghtsrashen | Ararat | 1,059 | 190 | 267 | 405 | -93 | 769 |
| 2018 | 23/18 | Vanadzor (town) | Lori | 947 | 76 | 135 | 381 | -182 | 410 |
| 2018 | 25/18 | Dzoramut | Lori | 450 | 39 | 59 | 90 | -20 | 168 |
| 2018 | 36/13 | Rind | Syunik and Vayots Dzor | 1,175 | 66 | 302 | 457 | -166 | 659 |
| 2018 | 37/27 | Berkaber | Tavush | 432 | 53 | 115 | 161 | -61 | 268 |
| 2021 | 17/65 | Gegharot | Aragatsotn | 423 | 51 | 73 | 87 | -3 | 208 |
| 2021 | 25/02 | Bovadzor | Lori | 240 | 102 | -44 | 29 | 11 | 98 |
| 2021 | 34/11 | Akner | Syunik and Vayots Dzor | 840 | 125 | 415 | -138 | 133 | 535 |
What each case means
- A negative last window (Nor Nork and Kaghtsrashen in 2017; Vanadzor, Dzoramut, Rind and Berkaber in 2018; Gegharot in 2021): the final number of participants is lower than the number reported at 17:00. In Vanadzor's station 23/18 in 2018 the 17:00 report said 592 people had voted, but the final count was 410, 182 fewer.
- A negative middle window (Bovadzor and Akner in 2021): a daytime report was higher than the next one. In Akner, the 14:00 report said 540 people had voted and the 17:00 report 402.
Either the commission reported numbers that it did not count, or the final protocol was changed. In both cases the book's rule applies: when the numbers of a station contradict each other and the commission recorded no explanation, the station's result cannot be trusted as it stands. The same kind of decrease was found at 5 stations in the 2015 referendum.
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.