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Article 7
 

Transparency of Elections

 

1. Elections shall be prepared and conducted in a transparent fashion.

2. Decisions of electoral commissions, national government and local self-government bodies, related to the preparation and conduct of elections, shall be published in the official press within three days of taking these decisions.

3. In the course of sessions of electoral commissions and during the voting process, chairmen of electoral commissions shall ensure, in accordance with procedures set out in this Code, that proxies, observers and representatives of the mass media participate in the activities of electoral commissions and that necessary and equal working conditions have been provided to them.

4. The Authorized Agency maintaining the National Voter Register of the Republic of Armenia shall publish the total number of voters included in the Republic of Armenia Voter Register on the day preceding the voting in presidential or National Assembly elections.

5. Citizens shall be informed, in accordance with procedures set out in this Code, about the composition, location and working hours of electoral commissions, the formation of electoral precincts and precinct centers, the deadlines for submitting appeals about inaccuracies in voter lists, the nomination and registration of candidates, the voting day and the election results.

6. On the voting day, Precinct Electoral Commissions shall report to Territorial Electoral Commissions the voter turnout every three hours. Territorial Electoral Commissions shall sum up these reports, make them public and forward them to the Central Electoral Commission every three hours. In national elections (national elections are either presidential elections or National Assembly elections under proportional contest), the Central Electoral Commission shall publish information on the voting progress at 9:00 on the voting day, and then, from 12:00 till 21:00, every three hours, by electoral districts, it shall publish information on voter turnout as of the preceding hour and about applications and complaints received. The Central Electoral Commission shall officially publish the summary data on voter turnout in national elections on the basis of data received from Territorial Electoral Commissions by means of telecommunication, by 10:00 of the day following the voting day.

7. Proxies, accredited observers and representatives of the mass media shall have a right to be present at precinct centers during electoral commission sessions and throughout the voting process.

8. In cases referred to in Paragraph 6 of this Article, the Central Electoral Commission shall announce the information in live radio and television reports on Armenia’s Public Radio and Public Television, broadcast from the administrative building of the Central Electoral Commission.