 Transparent ballot boxes for what the government pledges will be a transparent vote.
The conduct of Armenian elections is mainly regulated by the constitution and the election code. The code has been repeatedly amended with the stated aim of making vote rigging more difficult. The most recent of those amendments, enacted in December 2006, was essentially based on recommendations made by Council of Europe experts. In particular, voters will now have to put their marked ballots in special envelopes before casting them. This is supposed to help prevent ballot box stuffing. Another amendment gives more rights to the proxies of election candidates as well as observers and journalists covering polling. According to the OSCE observer mission in Armenia, the code provides a "solid foundation for the conduct of democratic elections."
However, opposition parties downplay its significance, saying that similar amendments in the past did not prevent massive fraud. They claim that some of the enacted changes will actually facilitate vote rigging. That includes a provision allowing the government-controlled election commissions to meet and make decisions without a quorum. Armenia's largest vote-monitoring organization, It's Your Choice, has also expressed concern about the clause.
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