Gohar Meloyan, a lawyer and member of the Strong Armenia party, stated at a press conference that publicly available government data showed unusually high numbers of people registered at individual addresses.

“We recorded one serious irregularity. Using open-source information from state agencies, we identified 846 addresses and found that as many as 303, 183 or 174 people were registered at a single address. The total figures become enormous as a result. No adequate explanation has been provided for this,” she said, according to Sputnik Armenia.

Meloyan also stated that during the pre-election period of the parliamentary campaign, around 700 people affiliated with Strong Armenia were detained or arrested.

According to her, those detained included elderly women who had merely come to join the party but were later visited at home, detained, questioned and released.

“We had three authorized representatives at all 2,005 polling stations. The authorities were gradually detaining the most prepared and experienced individuals,” she said.

She added that the pressure campaign is continuing and that the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) is considering requests to strip Strong Armenia candidates of immunity.

Meloyan said the party is preparing a report covering all alleged violations recorded during the electoral process.

According to her, many Artsakh Armenians who had obtained Armenian citizenship and official registration discovered on election day that their names were missing from voter lists. She claimed passport offices failed to assist them, preventing them from voting.

She also drew attention to the number of invalidated ballots, noting that the figure stood at 4,706 in 2018, 4,593 in 2021, and 17,097 in the latest election.

“If we calculate using the D’Hondt method for seat allocation, this amounts to more than one parliamentary mandate worth of votes. This is concerning because we received reports from several polling stations that our ballot papers were declared invalid simply because they were folded, despite officials having no right to do so. There were cases where torn ballots were considered valid, while folded ballots were invalidated,” Meloyan said.

She also referred to alleged discrepancies between machine-generated receipts and numbers recorded on voter lists.

“This is a serious warning sign that the system may have been compromised and that some mechanism may have been introduced,” Meloyan said, adding that in certain cases none of the machine’s three indicator lights activated after voters provided fingerprints.

In addition, she claimed that ballot boxes at several polling stations were not properly sealed, which, in her view, made it possible to open and close them at any time.

“We have video showing a commission chair taking a ballot box and placing it behind the cameras. Throughout the day we could not see what was happening with that ballot box,” the parliamentary candidate said.

Meloyan also stated that the number of registered voters changed repeatedly in the period leading up to the election.

Responding to statements by representatives of the Civil Contract party that recounts had increased their vote totals, she rejected those claims and said the opposite picture had emerged.

Discussing military personnel participation, Meloyan claimed that soldiers were brought to polling stations shortly before voting ended, which she argued could create the impression of coordinated voting. She also said soldiers entered polling stations from different rooms within the same building.

“We are concerned that there may have been soldiers who were granted leave two days before the election, voted at polling stations using their passports, then returned to their units and voted again using military identification documents. That would amount to double voting, which still needs to be verified,” Meloyan said.

According to preliminary data, votes in the elections were distributed as follows: Civil Contract — 49.825 percent, Strong Armenia — 23.281 percent, Armenia Alliance — 9.934 percent, Prosperous Armenia — 3.996 percent. Updated figures indicate that the Prosperous Armenia Party has not passed the electoral threshold, which is 4 percent for parties. The party has requested recounts in several polling stations.