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Article 68
 

Procedure for summarisation of voting results in electoral precinct


1. On the Election Day, at 20:00, the chairperson of the PEC shall announce about the end of the voting and prohibit the entry of voters into the polling room. The commission shall permit the voters present in the polling room to vote, after which the chairperson of the commission shall close the slot of the ballot box.


2. The PEC shall start the session for summarisation of voting results. Besides the persons having the right to be present at the session of the election commission, the candidate shall also have the right to be present at that session.
The PEC shall:


(1) pack the individual seals of the commission members, and the package shall be sealed and placed in the sack;
(2) count the total number of voting participants, based on the signatures of voters in the list of voters.
If available, the following shall also be counted separately:


• number of signatures available in the supplementary lists drawn up in the electoral precinct on the Election Day;
• number of signatures available in the supplementary lists of voters having participated in the voting through the mobile ballot box.



These figures shall be published and recorded in the registration book of the PEC.
The chairperson of the commission shall immediately inform, through available means of communication, the TEC on the total number of voting participants in the electoral precinct.


(3) where during the voting the technical equipment has worked without failures, a statement of information shall be printed by means of technical equipment during elections of the National Assembly, which includes the numbers of the TEC and the electoral precinct, the record number of voters registered by means of technical equipment in the list of voters of the relevant electoral precinct. A statement must contain an indication on the voters whose registration was carried out by inputting, using keyboard, the data on the identification document into the technical equipment.
In case of impossibility to print the statement of information, a relevant record thereon shall be made in the registration book.
One copy of the statement of information, signed by the chairperson of the PEC and sealed with the seal of the commission, shall be placed in the sack.
One copy of the statement of information, signed by the chairperson of the PEC and sealed with the seal of the commission, shall, upon request, be provided to the candidates, the observers and one proxy of every political party running in the elections, present at the session for summarisation.
The lists of voters (except for the signed lists of voters, being drawn up in a military unit, penitentiary institution and facility for holding arrestees) shall be packed, the package shall be sealed and signed by the chairperson and the secretary of the PEC and be submitted to the TEC as prescribed by part 9 of Article 71 of this Code. The signed lists of voters, being drawn up in a military unit, penitentiary institution and facility for holding arrestees, shall be packed separately, the package shall be sealed and placed in the sack.
(4) one by one count voting slips, received from voters, printed by means of technical equipment and numbered, pack, seal the package and place in the sack;
(5) count the unused sticker, pack, seal the package and place in the sack.
(6) count the unused numbered voting slips, pack, seal the package and place in the sack. In case numbered voting slips are not used, they shall not be counted and the number of voting slips allocated by the TEC shall be indicated;
(7) without counting, pack the unused ballot papers, submit to the TEC, as prescribed by the CEC.
The results of these actions shall be published and recorded in the registration book of the PEC.


3. The chairperson of the commission shall open the ballot box, take one ballot envelope out of the ballot box, demonstrate it in such a way that it is visible to those present and shall take the ballot paper out of the ballot envelope.
During elections of the National Assembly, the chairperson of the commission shall announce the ballot paper being of the established or non-established sample, valid or invalid (at this stage validity assessment of the ballot paper as regards the candidate included in the district candidate list shall not be carried out), in case of a valid ballot paper [he or she] shall announce the name of the political party running in the elections in favour of which the ballot paper has been cast. It shall be demonstrated in such a way that it is visible to those present. Upon request, the ballot paper shall be transferred to other members of the commission. In case the member of the commission disagrees with the statement of the chairperson of the commission, he or she shall raise an objection. In case the objection is raised, the proposal of the member of the commission shall be put to voting in accordance with the decision on accepting the objection, and where the objection is not adopted or where there is no objection, the ballot paper shall, pursuant to the statement of the chairperson of the commission, be put in the pile of ballot papers cast in favour of the political party. This action shall be repeated with all the envelopes available in the ballot box.
The ballot papers with affirmative vote cast in favour of the political party running in the elections and the invalid ballot papers shall be sorted separately. After the ballot papers with affirmative vote have been sorted and counted according to ballot papers cast in favour of every political party running in the elections, the results shall be announced out loud and recorded in the registration book of the PEC.
After having all the valid ballot papers of every political party running in the elections sorted, the PEC shall (according to the political parties having received the highest number of ballot papers with affirmative vote) count the number of ballot papers cast in favour of every candidate included in the district candidate list of the political party running in the elections. To that end, the chairperson of the PEC shall, according to the mark put on the 2nd page of the ballot paper, announce the candidate in the district candidate list of the political party running in the elections in favour of whom it has been cast. Where the ballot paper on its 2nd page contains marks in favour of more than one candidates or contains no marks or the established form of putting a mark has been obviously violated, the ballot paper shall remain only in the pile of ballot papers cast in favour of the political party running in the elections. It shall be demonstrated in such a way that it is visible to those present. Upon request, the ballot paper shall be transferred to other members of the commission. In case the member of the commission disagrees with the statement of the chairperson of the commission, he or she shall raise an objection. Where an objection is raised, the proposal of the member of the commission is put to voting in accordance with the decision on accepting the objection, and where the objection is not adopted or where there is no objection, the ballot paper shall, pursuant to the statement of the chairperson of the commission, be put in the pile of ballot papers cast in favour of the relevant candidate for Deputies.
This action shall be repeated with all the ballot papers with affirmative vote cast in favour of every political party running in the elections. After having ballot papers cast in favour of every political party running in the elections sorted as prescribed, the number of ballot papers cast in favour of every candidate in the district candidate list of the political party running in the elections shall be counted, announced out loud and recorded in the registration book of the PEC.
After having ballot papers cast in favour of all political parties running in the elections sorted, ballot papers with affirmative vote cast in favour of every political parties running in the elections shall be packed together.


4. During elections of Councils of Elders of Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, as well as of Head of the community and member of the council of elders, the chairperson of the commission shall take one ballot envelope out of the ballot box, demonstrate it in such a way that it is visible to those present, take the ballot paper out of the ballot envelope and announce if the ballot paper is valid, invalid, or of non-established sample.
In case the ballot paper is valid, [he or she] shall also announce the candidate or the political party running in the elections in favour of whom or which a vote has been cast.


Upon request, the ballot paper shall be transferred to other members of the commission. In case the member of the commission disagrees with the statement of the chairperson of the commission, he or she shall raise an objection. Where the objection is raised, the proposal of the member of the commission is put to voting in accordance with the decision on accepting the objection, and where the objection is not adopted or where there is no objection, the ballot paper shall, pursuant to the statement of the chairperson of the commission, be put in the pile of ballot papers cast in favour of the political party running in the elections or of the candidate, in case one candidate is voted on —in the pile of the ballot papers cast for or against the candidate, or in the pile of invalid ballot papers, after which the next envelope shall be taken out of the ballot box. This action shall be repeated in relation to all the envelopes in the ballot box.
The ballot papers cast in favour of political parties running in the elections, candidates, and the invalid ballot papers shall be sorted separately.
After the ballot papers voted on have been sorted and counted, the results shall be announced out loud and recorded in the registration book of the PEC.


5. During the sorting of ballot papers, commission members shall be prohibited from making any notes, as well as having with them any pens, pencils or other items for making notes.


6. In case more than one ballot paper is found in a ballot envelope, only the one of the established sample ballot paper shall be considered in the counting.
In case the ballot envelope contains an additional writing, the ballot paper shall not be taken out of the envelope, the ballot envelope together with the ballot paper therein shall be immediately cancelled.


7. The non-established sample ballot papers shall not be considered and counted when summarising the results. 8. The counted and sorted ballot papers shall be packed as prescribed by the CEC, and the packages shall be sealed and placed in the sack.
The packages must bear the signature of the chairperson of the commission. The other commission members and proxies shall also have the right to sign the packages. The names and surnames of the signatories shall be entered, and samples of the signature shall be put in the registration book.


9. In case elections for Head of the community and member of the council of elders are held simultaneously, the voting results of the community council of elders shall be summarised first.