iDitord e-platform registers 1062 electoral violations

PanARMENIAN.Net - Online iDitord platform set up for registration of electoral fraud recorded 1062 cases of forgery, the coordinators said on May 10.

According to director of Transparency International anti-corruption center, iDitord coordinator Sona Ayzavyan, this figure may be altered since some reports, being false, were not taken into account.

“Approximately 500 cases of violation were registered by 10am on May 6, the voting day. Several hours prior to the hacker attack the website was very active, recording 100 reports per hour,” she told the journalists.

Another iDitord coordinator Samvel Martirosyan stated that the platform underwent a hacker attack at 4pm, and was out of operation for about 3 hours following it.

“The attack was very massive, an unexpectedly tough one. The positive thing is that we managed to restore the website’s operation by the end of the voting. It was available again at 7pm,” Martirosyan said.

According to him, hackers are extremely hard to identify, let alone those behind the attack. The expert believes the platform was hit by Russian hackers since “same hackers attacked both iDitord and Russian Echo of Moscow website.”

As to the violations, the specialists mentioned they mostly referred to inaccuracies of the voting lists, electoral bribery, unlawful actions by the electoral commissions, other people’s presence at polling stations and stamps put in voters’ passports.

“Over half of all cases were registered in Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Goris and Armavir,” Ayzavyan noted.