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ARMENIA- Electoral Code
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Liability for Violating the Provisions of this Code
The following shall be prosecuted in accordance with procedures defined by the law:
1) registering in voter lists in more than one electoral precinct, voting more than once, voting for another person;
2) violating the procedures and the timeframe for compiling voter lists;
3) Revoked
4) distorting the voting results;
5) hiding the ballots, putting additional ballots in the ballot box;
6) distorting the election results intentionally;
7) forging the ballots and electoral commission stamps;
8) forging the protocols on voting and election results;
9) entering the precinct center with weapons while not carrying out official duties;
10) taking military servicemen to vote in a marching line or with weapons, or forcing them to go vote;
11) intentionally hindering the normal work of electoral commissions on the voting day;
12) campaigning on the voting day and the day before;
13) hindering the free expression of voters’ will;
14) violence or insults against electoral commission members, observers, proxies, representatives of mass media and member of initiative groups;
15) hindering election-related functions;
16) stealing the ballot box;
17) hindering the normal course of elections by electoral commission members or civil servants and employees of local self-government bodies;
18) coercing the expression of voters’ free will;
19) violating the ballot secrecy;
20) publishing sociological polling results about candidates’ ratings within seven days before the voting day;
21) tearing off or marking election posters posted in specially designated areas;
22) disseminating false and libelous information about candidates or parties;
23) deceiving a person who is unable to vote on his/her own;
24) campaigning and disseminating any campaign materials by persons and organizations, who have no right to conduct pre-election campaign;
25) hindering the normal course of pre-election campaign;
26) disseminating anonymous printed campaign materials;
27) failing to submit declarations on the use of resources in candidates’ and parties’ preelection fund in accordance with the established procedures;
28) failing to return electoral commission stamps;
29) state media’s failing to provide equal conditions for all candidates;
30) commission chairmen creating obstacles for proxies, observers and representatives of the media who want to see sample ballots and electoral commission decisions, refusing to provide them with a copy of commission decisions or not allowing them to take excerpts from the decisions;
31) failing to fill out the electoral commission’s register or filling it out improperly.