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Article 10
 

Including electors in the list


1. The list of electors of a community shall be drawn up on the basis of the Register of Electors of the Republic of Armenia by electoral precincts, which shall include persons having the right to elect during the relevant election pursuant to Article 2 of this Code.


2. In case of each election, an elector may be included only in one list of electors and only once.


3. In case of elections of the National Assembly, electors having registration of another community shall, no later than 10 days before the voting day, submit an application to the authorised body or to the head of its relevant subdivision (hereinafter referred to as “the authorised body”) on temporary withdrawal from the list of electors by place of registration, indicating the address of their place of residence on the voting day. The authorised body shall, within a 3-day period following the receipt of the application, temporarily remove the data of the elector from the list of electors by place of registration and add them in the list of electors of the electoral precinct by place of residence. In case of submitting an application on behalf of another person, the applicant shall be obliged to submit notary certified power of attorney. The authorised body shall provide the applicant with a relevant statement of information thereon. The forms of the application and the statement of application shall be established by the Central Electoral Commission.


4. During elections of the National Assembly, members of precinct electoral commissions may be included in the electoral precinct list of electors of the electoral precinct by place of residence where they are appointed as members of a precinct electoral commission, by being temporarily removed from the list of electors by place of registration. The application for including members of precinct electoral commissions in the lists of electors of the electoral precinct by place of residence may also be submitted to the authorised body by the political party that has appointed him or her, or by the chairperson of the district electoral commission on the basis of the application of the member of the precinct electoral commission no later than 10 days before the voting day, by 14:00. The form of the application shall be established by the Central Electoral Commission.


5. For the purpose of participating in the voting, during elections of the National Assembly, electors having no registration in the Republic of Armenia shall, no later than 10 days before the voting day, submit an application to the authorised body on being temporarily included in the list of electors, indicating the address of their place of residence in the Republic of Armenia on the voting day. The authorised body shall, within a 3-day period following the receipt of the application, include the elector in the list of electors of the electoral precinct of his or her place of residence in the Republic of Armenia on the voting day and shall provide him or her with a statement of information thereon. The forms of the application and the statement of information shall be established by the Central Electoral Commission.


6. During elections of the National Assembly, the Police under the Government of the Republic of Armenia (hereinafter referred to as “the Police”) shall — no later than 10 days before the voting day, by 14:00 — draw up a list of police officers seconded to electoral precincts on the voting day, indicating the surname, name, patronymic, year, month and day of birth (hereinafter referred to as “the date”), the address of the place of registration of police officers and the number of the electoral precinct. Based on these lists, the authorised body shall temporarily remove police officers from the list of electors of their place of registration and shall include them in the list of electors of the precincts they are seconded to.


7. During elections of the National Assembly, the head of the medical institution providing inpatient care shall — no later than 7 days before the voting day, by 14:00 — submit to the authorised body the list of electors undergoing inpatient treatment and having no possibility to be present on the voting day in the polling station on their own but willing to participate in the voting in the medical institution providing inpatient care, indicating the surname, name, patronymic, the date of birth and the address of the place of registration of the elector.


Based on the submitted lists, the authorised body shall temporarily remove the electors undergoing inpatient treatment from the list of electors of their place of registration and shall — in accordance with the requirements for the lists of electors as prescribed by Article 11 of this Code — draw up a supplementary list of electors participating in the voting in a medical institution providing inpatient care.


8. During elections of the National Assembly, military servants undergoing compulsory fixed-term military service, as well as contract military servants registered within the territory where the military units are located, members of their families, registered together with them within the same territory, who have the right to elect shall be included in the list of electors of the military unit.


9. During elections of the National Assembly, the Ministry of Defence, the National Security Service and the Police shall — no later than 50 days, 10 days and 6 days before the voting day — submit to the authorised body and the Central Electoral Commission the number of electors registered in military units, troops of the National Security and the Police respectively, as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.


10. Contract military servants registered outside the territory of a military unit shall be included in the list of electors under the general procedure.


11. The head of the penitentiary institution shall — no later than 10 days, 5 days and 3 days before the voting day — submit to the Central Electoral Commission the number of electors registered in the penitentiary institution, as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.


The list of electors registered in the penitentiary institution shall — 3 days before the voting day — be drawn up by the head of the penitentiary institution.