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Article 10
 

Inclusion of Citizens in the Voter Lists

 

1. Persons who have the right to vote in accordance with Article 2 of this Code shall be included in the Republic of Armenia Voter List.

2. The same person may be included in one community voter list only, and only once.

3. Everyone who has the right to vote under Article 2 of this Code, as well as those residing but not registered in any community, and, in cases stipulated under para. 2 of the same provision, citizens registered in another community, shall be included in the community voter list. Citizens, who have the right to vote but are not registered, shall submit a request to be included in the voter list to their community head (in the period of up to 21 days prior to the voting day) or also to the head of the authorized agency or its respective division (in the period of up to 15 days prior to the voting day), in accordance with procedure set out by the Central Electoral Commission. Citizens who are not

registered shall be included in the voter list on the basis of a document confirming their place of residence. Under national elections, citizens registered in another community shall submit to the

authorized body or to the head of its respective unit up to 7 days before the voting day an application requesting temporary removal of his/her name from the voter register of the community in which he/she is registered and specifying the address at which he/she will be residing on the day of the voting. The format of the application shall be established by the Central Electoral Commission.

The head of the authorized body or its respective unit, upon receipt of such application, shall, within a period of 3 days, issue a notification to the citizen in relation to the removal of his/her name from the voter register of the community in which he/she is registered and inclusion of his/her name in an additional voter register of the community in which he/she is residing. The format of the notification shall be established by the Central Electoral Commission.

At least 4 days before the voting day, by 14:00, the Republic of Armenia Police shall present to the head of the authorized agency or its respective territorial division a list of police officers assigned to duty in precinct centers on the voting day, specifying the citizen’s surname, name, patronymic (if the patronymic is mentioned in the passport), the day, month and year of birth, and registered address.

Based on the submitted lists, the head of the authorized agency or its respective division shall remove the names of these police officers from the voter lists in their place of registration and, in accordance with the provisions of Article 11 of this Code regarding voter lists, compile a supplementary list of police officers voting in the precinct center, sign and seal each page of that list and, two days prior to the voting day, submit it to the Chairman of the relevant Precinct Electoral Commission, together with the final voter list.

4. Everyone with the right to vote in local self-government elections shall be included in voter lists compiled during local self-government elections, on general grounds.

5. Except in local self-government elections, military servicemen (citizens) in their regular term of duty or those engaged in military exercises, who have been temporarily released from their service in accordance with the laws, may be included in the voter list in their place of permanent residence in accordance with procedures set out in Paragraph 3 of this Article, upon their application to be included in the voter list.

6. Revoked

7. Revoked

8. During national elections, military servicemen on a regular tour of duty, military servicemen residing on the territory of military units and their family members who have the right to vote, as well as citizens who are engaged in military exercises, shall be included in the voter list in their respective military unit.

9. During national elections, heads of military units shall report the number of eligible voters registered in their military units to the respective community head, to the head of the Authorized Agency, and to the Territorial Electoral Commission, at least 45 days before the voting day.

10. Military servicemen and members of their families, who are registered outside the military unit shall be included in the voter list on general grounds.

11. Voter lists of detainees shall be compiled by heads of the detention facilities, with participation of a member of the Territorial Electoral Commission, three days before the voting day. During National Assembly elections under majoritarian system, only detained citizens registered in that particular district’s communities shall be included in the voter list of detainees.