OSCE PROVIDES ADDITIONAL TRANSPARENT BALLOT BOXES FOR ARMENIA
Support A1+!3401 additional transparent ballot boxes arrived in Armenia over the weekend for use at the upcoming May 25 Parliamentary Elections and Constitutional Referendum. The boxes will be used together with 2000 transparent ballot boxes provided earlier by OSCE for the presidential elections.
The decision to provide additional transparent ballot boxes was a result of extensive discussions with the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) over the last couple of months.
In March, the Office offered to provide the CEC with additional transparent ballot boxesso that multiple boxes could be used for the upcoming parliamentary elections and constitutional referendum. However, the CEC turned down this offer at that time. Following the request from CEC Chairman on May 6, the OSCE Office agreed to arrange for the additional boxes to be manufactured and delivered to Armenia.
The costs of production, delivery and transportation to regional territorial commissions were made possible by financial contributions from US Government through the United States Agency for Development and Co-operation (USAID), Governments of the UK and Netherlands.
The OSCE Office in Yerevan welcomes the willingness of the CEC to use multiple transparent ballot boxes for the upcoming elections and believes that the use of transparent ballot boxes will contribute to the transparency of the electoral process.
