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Avoid damaging, removing or spoiling the imprint of the rubber stamp, signatures, entries and notes stipulated by law, and confirming the participation in the elections via technical means or otherwise, Armenian police said in a statement. 

“Various videos where the imprints of the rubber stamps, put in the citizens' passports by the election commission and confirming the citizen's participation in the elections, are removed by means of various chemical substances, particularly, hydrogen peroxide, wipes saturated with alcoholic solutions, have been placed on the internet.

Not pursuing an aim to touch upon the scientific achievements of the 21st century, including the various staining agents and purifiers in the field of chemistry, the police of the Republic of Armenia find it necessary to warn that all the displays of the abovementioned interventions placed on the internet can be qualified as violations of the voting right, particularly, prevention of the voting right, impediment to the realization of the electoral commission activities, readiness or an attempt to vote more than once as well as can hold other liability stipulated by law, therefore we call to avoid damaging, removing or spoiling the imprint of the rubber stamp, signatures, entries and notes stipulated by law, and confirming the participation in the elections via technical means or otherwise,” the statement read.